Student Surgical Tech

Position Summary:

Provides assistive patient care in the Operating Room under the direct supervision of the Registered Nurse. This position serves the following patient age categories: pediatrics, adolescent, adult, and geriatric.

• Assists with Surgical Process.
• Demonstrates table set-ups and scrub techniques for complex procedures in and out of specialty.
• Anticipates specific instruments, checks equipment, and obtains supplies for upcoming schedule.
• Maintains asepsis throughout procedure; identifies and corrects breaks in technique.
• Demonstrates and educates principles of anatomy and physiology as related to basic and complex procedures.
• Demonstrates and educates safety practices as related to counts, sharps, positioning, specimens, and Electrical Surgical Units & Plan education for peer group
• Contributes to unit operations. Identifies and makes changes to preference lists.
• Recognizes and actively participates in quality assurance and improvement activities.
• Willingness to go to other specialties to broaden knowledge base.
• Demonstrates professional accountability. Plans and teaches campus specific specialty competencies.
• Planning and Implementation of patient care.
• Observes patient, alerts surgical team to symptoms, reactions, and changes in patient condition, and coaches others to recognize status changes.
• Assists the RN with selected patient care interventions in a manner that is consistent with policies and procedures and offering coaching to new members of the surgical team.
• Consults physicians and acts upon needs/requirements preoperatively and postoperatively.
  *** within scope of practice***
• Completes assigned task and without prompting, seeks other departmental needs.

Qualifications:

The following qualifications, or equivalents, are the minimum requirements necessary to perform the essential functions of this position.

Education/formal training/licensure/certification experience:

• Currently enrolled in a surgical technology program.
• BLS