Job Domains Planning

• Ensure proper supplies, equipment, and instruments are ready for use.
• Clean operating room between cases.
• Restock operating rooms as necessary to meet par levels.
• Assist other operating rooms for coverage.
• Prepare cases for next day.
• May operate sterilizer, lights, suction machine, and other designated equipment.
• Ensure patient, procedure, operative site, positioning and equipment correspond.
• Ability to interact comfortably.
• Know principles and methods of sterilization.
• Perform hand scrub according to policy and procedure.
• Arrange instruments and supplies for surgical procedure.
• Maintain integrity of instruments.
• Ensure proper counting of sponges, instruments, and sharps.
• Assist in gowning of other personnel and draping of patient.
• Anticipate surgeon’s needs.
• Pass instruments to surgeon and/or assistant as appropriate.
• Communicate needs to circulators to ensure efficient and uninterrupted progress of procedure.
• Prepare and preserve specimens.
• Assist with induction and anesthesia.
• Verify name, strength and dosage of medication with circulator; confirm and label and place on surgical field.
• Clean and disinfect all tables, counter surfaces, stands and floor.
• May help transport patient and restock the operating room.

Knowledge and Skills

• Knowledge of scrubbing a variety of case. Ortho experience preferred. 
• Knowledgeable of suture technique and retracting.
• Verbal skills to effectively listen and communicate.
• Math skills to count sponges, sutures, sharps and instrumentation accurately.
• Reading skills to read preference cards, charts and instructions.
• Demonstrate knowledge of age specific criteria.

Physical Characteristics

• See well enough to read written/typed material, monitors, gauges, printouts, computer screens, etc.
• Speak well enough to communicate with physicians, coworkers, patients and families.
• Hear well enough to interact with all contacts and hear alarms and monitor signals.
• Mobility to stand, walk, run, and respond quickly and carefully within the confines of the operating room and also in emergency situations.
• Mobility to bend, stoop, pull, and lift.
• Good eye/hand coordination.
• Ability to push/pull carts, beds, and other equipment.
• Ability to physically assist patients.

Education/Experience

• Graduate of an accredit Surgical Technologist program or Military trained. 
• One year of current Surgical Tech/Scrub experience in the Operating Room.
• Certification is not required, but preferred.
• BLS Certification

Comprehensive benefit package: *No Weekends/No Holidays*, Medical, Dental, Vision, Paid time off, Life Insurance, Short Term Disability and much more.

We value our employees’ time and efforts. Our commitment to your success is enhanced by our competitive compensation and an extensive benefits package. Plus, we work to maintain the best possible environment for our employees, where people can learn and grow with the company. We strive to provide a collaborative environment where each person feels encouraged to contribute to our processes, decisions, planning and culture.