Scrub/Sterilization Technician

Job Description

Surgical technologists help prepare the operating room by setting up surgical instruments and equipment, sterile drapes, and sterile solutions for invasive surgical procedures. Their responsibilities require them to have outstanding knowledge of surgical protocols in order to have the proper surgical instrumentation available for the surgeons and be able to effectively and safely handle and pass surgical instruments during the surgical procedures.

Responsibilities include:

• maintaining the sterile field between the patient and the surgical team.
• counting the sponges, needles, and instruments to ensure there are still the same number as before the surgery.
• assembling both sterile and nonsterile equipment and assuring that the equipment is in proper working condition.
• prepping patients for surgery by washing, shaving, and disinfecting incision sites.
• transporting patients to the operating room.
• helping position them on the operating table, and covering them with sterile surgical drapes.

Technologists may also observe patients’ vital signs, check charts, and help the surgical team put on sterile gowns and gloves.

During surgery, technologists pass instruments and other sterile supplies to surgeons and surgeon assistants. During a surgical procedure the technologist may hold retractors, cut sutures, and help count sponges, needles, supplies, and instruments. Surgical technologists help prepare, care for, and dispose of specimens taken for laboratory analysis and help apply dressings. Some operate sterilizers, lights, or suction machines, and help operate diagnostic equipment.

After an operation, surgical technologists may help transfer patients to the recovery room and clean and restock the operating room.

Surgical technologists may specialize in a particular type of surgery, such as open heart surgery, neurosurgery, organ transplantation, plastic surgery, or orthopedic surgery. Certified surgical technologists with additional specialized education or training also may act in the role of the surgical first assistant or circulator. The surgical first assistant, as defined by the American College of Surgeons (ACS), provides aid in exposure, hemostasis (controlling blood flow and stopping or preventing hemorrhage), and other technical functions under the surgeon’s direction that help the surgeon carry out a safe operation. A circulating technologist is the “unsterile” member of the surgical team who interviews the patient before surgery; prepares the patient; helps with anesthesia; obtains and opens packages for the “sterile” people to remove the sterile contents during the procedure; keeps a written account of the surgical procedure; and answers the surgeon’s questions about the patient during the surgery.

Given the demanding nature of the operating room, surgical technologists should be responsible, organized, and emotionally stable. Surgical technologists must be able to perform under pressure in stressful and emergency situations. They must also possess a stable temperament; be very responsible, patient, detail-oriented, and quick yet accurate; and have a great deal of manual dexterity and physical stamina.

Job Type: Part-time

Job Type: Part-time

Pay: From $17.00 per hour

Schedule:

• Day shift
• Monday to Friday

Ability to Commute:

• Tampa, FL 33618 (Required)

Ability to Relocate:

• Tampa, FL 33618: Relocate before starting work (Required)

Work Location: In person

Salary : $17