Job Description

CPIhealth is a multidisciplinary team dedicated to providing compassionate and comprehensive care to individuals experiencing chronic pain. With state-of-the-art facilities, advanced technology, and a collaborative environment, we offer a platform for healthcare providers to excel in their specialties while making a profound difference in the lives of those we serve.

As you consider your next career move, we invite you to join us in redefining pain management through innovation, expertise, and a commitment to improving patient outcomes. Together, we can shape the future of healthcare and positively impact countless lives.

We have an immediate need for a dependable and experienced individual to join our team as a PRN Certified Surgical Technician with sterile processing experience in Columbus, IN to provide surgical and technical assistance to the healthcare team in the operating room. This role will also be responsible for cleaning, disinfecting, and sterilizing medical instruments and equipment to ensure patient safety.

Responsibilities

• Provide surgical and technical assistance to physicians, surgical nurses, and anesthesiologists.
• Participates in timeouts by confirming patient identification, correct procedure, side/site, etc. Maintains integrity of OR.
• Prepare patients for surgery, including positioning patients on the operating table and covering them with sterile surgical drapes to prevent exposure. Participates and maintains safety and dignity of patient at all times.
• Assists provider by having all necessary equipment available and ready. Dispense instruments and supplies to physicians and/or OR staff, hold retractors and cut sutures, and perform other tasks as directed by physician during procedure.
• Scrub arms and hands and assist the surgical team to scrub and put on gloves, masks, and surgical clothing.
• Prepare dressings or bandages and apply or assist with their application following surgery.
• Applies and monitors principles of aseptic technique throughout intra-operative period.
• Clean, set up, sterilize and distribute instruments as scheduled on each shift.
• Maintains records for QA and sterilization.
• Operates all required equipment and machinery accurately and safely, prepares, assembles, and sterilizes instruments and supplies according to parameters of sterilization in accordance with The Department of Health, TJC, OSHA, CDC, AAMI and AORN standards. Maintains appropriate records, and monitors quality control and infection control standards. Provides asset management and support of surgical instruments and trays belonging to or consigned to the facility.
• Accurately handles and cares for instruments appropriately, including appropriate selection of cleaning agents, lubricants, examination for function, identification and assembly according to OneSource and preparation for sterilization; retrieves malfunctioning instruments and ensures repairs are completed.
• Correctly peel-packs supplies/instruments, wraps instruments for sterilization, inspect each instrument for use, function, completeness and cleanliness.
• Efficiently “turns over” rooms between patients following proper cleaning technique.
• Communicates all breaches of aseptic technique immediately to the provider and circulating nurse.
• Maintains patient confidentiality (HIPAA)

Requirements

• High School diploma or equivalent. Successful completion of an accredited Surgical Technician program.
• Previous experience in sterile processing preferred.
• Knowledge of applicable sanitary, infection control, and safety standards sufficient to be able to perform all assignments within the safety parameters.
• Knowledge or processes, procedures, quality assurance, chemicals and medical instruments sufficient to be able to decontaminate and sterilize equipment, supplies, and instruments.
• Experience with EMR (NextGen/ECW) preferred.
• Ability to independently apply skills and job knowledge with supervision.
• Strong organizational, judgment, communication and analytical skills; sometimes under pressure.
• Ability to multi-task and perform multiple priorities.
• Cooperative and professional behavior toward patients, peers, providers, management and visitors.
• Ability to promote favorable facility image with patients, providers, insurance companies and general public.
• Ability to make decisions and solve problems.
• Evidence of leadership qualities.
• The ability to contribute in a team environment and/or independently, to provide excellent customer service.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office.