Surgical Technologist

Job Description

Performs perioperative scrub techniques/procedures, nursing care and patient preparation as a surgical team member under direct nursing supervision.


Job Responsibility

• Performs pre-surgical scrub techniques/procedures as a surgical team member.
  
  
  
  • Scrubs hands and arms, and dons gown and gloves.
  
  
  • Sets-up operating room tray, arranging instruments, sponges, sutures, catheters, drains and dressings.
  
  
  • Prepares operating room for surgery by obtaining and setting-up supplies and equipment.
  
  
  • Prepares patient for surgery in prescribed manner to provide a surgically sterile field.
  
  


• Assists Circulating Nurse, as directed, during surgery including, but not limited to:

• Passing/counting instruments and sponges, dressings, and with other routine operating room functions as required.


• Operating peripheral equipment including, but not limited to lights, tables, and suction machines during surgery.


• May assist Nurse in planning and labeling specimens obtained during surgery.

• High School Diploma or equivalent, required.


• AAS Degree in Operating Room Technology, preferred. Knowledge of surgical instruments and specialized equipment, required.


• Successful completion from a nationally accredited educational program for surgical technologist, and holds and maintains a certified surgical technologist (CST) credential administered by the National Board of Surgical Technology and Surgical Assisting (NBSTSA), required.OR (meets one for the following)
  
  
  
  • Completed an appropriate training program for surgical technology in the United States Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, or Public Health Service Commissioned Corps;
  
  
  • Provides evidence that the person was employed as a surgical technologist in a healthcare facility for a cumulative period of one year, occurring within the four years immediately prior to January 1, 2015; or
  
  
  • In the service of the federal government, to the extent the person is performing duties related to that of a surgical tech.
    
    
    
    • a person may be employed or contracted with to practice surgical technology during the 12-month period immediately following successful completion of a surgical technology program, but may not continue to be employed beyond that period without documentation that the employee holds and maintains a certified surgical technologist credential required.
    
    
  
  


• Must be and remain in good standing with NYS regulations, required.


• Prior experience as an Operating Room Technician required.