Sterile Instrument Technician

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Sterile Instrument Technician

Requisition  Time - Eligible for Benefits Night
40
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* Purpose:

** This role will process and prepare multi-specialty and general surgery instrumentation, provide quality sterile trays, surgical instruments, packs and medical supplies, and clean patient equipment for a multi-million-dollar department on a 24hr, 7 day a week basis.## Nature and Scope This position provides a vital service to the Surgical Services Department as well as other clinical departments within the Renown Health Network which cannot function without the instrumentation and equipment prepared by this staff.

This position is utilized for cleaning; assembling instruments; sterilization of supplies; provides all initial cleaning and decontamination of instruments and trays; serves as a resource to operating room personnel.

The major challenges to this position are learning constantly changing instruments, equipment, procedures, sterile techniques, and efficiently handling the equipment and supply needs for emergency cases. Determining processed instrumentation meets stringent criterion for sterility and use in the operating room. Serves as the source for identifying outside vendor instruments, systems, and their locations. Provides assistance to all outside vendors on a daily basis including maintaining their instruments and sets.

The conditions of work may involve exposures to communicable disease and potentially dangerous gases (where appropriate), chemicals, and injury from sharp instruments.

This position is responsible for monitoring the need for instruments, implants, and supplies.

This position is utilized for their expertise in providing service to physicians, staff, and outside hospitals. This position:

- Must be conscientious, industrious, precise, and reliable.

- Incumbent must pay close attention to detail and have the ability to retain knowledge of the work involved, be capable of planning and assessing priorities to maintain adequate production, accept responsibility, and prefer activities of a repetitive nature.

- Maintains proper levels of instruments and supplies needed for reprocessing.

- Maintains proper patient charges related to the Sterile Processing Department to all user stations throughout Renown Health and off-site affiliates.

- Accurately maintains comprehensive quality assurance standards related to sterilization and infection control in a sterile area.

- Operates within the sterilization procedures.

- Determines whether each piece of equipment that is processed is in correct working condition.

- Determines whether processed instrumentation meets the stringent criterion for sterility and use in the Operating Room prior to…