Surgical Scrub Technician

Your tasks

Main function: Responsible for ensuring proper care and use of surgical instruments.

• Philosophy:
• Supports the facility’s ideology, mission, goals, and objectives
• Performs in accordance with facility policies and procedures
• Follows facility standards for ethical business conduct
• Conducts self as a positive role model and team member
• Recognizes patients’ rights and responsibilities and supports them in performance of job duties
• Participates in facility committees, meetings, inservices, and activities
• Communication:
• Communicates effectively and professionally with patients, visitors, physicians, and coworkers
• Interacts with others in a positive, respectful, and considerate manner
• Comprehends and interprets verbal orders and directions
• Financial practices:
• Uses facility resources appropriately and avoids wasteful practices
• Reports wasteful practices
• Analyzes work area and recommends cost-effective improvements
• Compliance program:
• Contributes to the organization’s compliance program
• Performs according to established compliance policies and procedures
• Safety/risk-management program:
• Adheres to safety policies and procedures
• Reports observed or suspected safety violations, hazards, and noncompliance to the safety officer or designated person
• Professional competence:
• Participates in continuing education and other learning experiences
• Shares knowledge gained with staff
• Maintains membership in relevant professional organizations
• Seeks new learning opportunities and accepts challenging responsibilities
• Welcomes suggestions and recommendations
• Duties:
• Perform specified functions to meet requirements of each approved procedure
• Assemble supplies and equipment for scheduled procedures according to physicians’ preference cards
• Inspect equipment for proper working condition
• Follow principles of aseptic technique and operating/procedure room procedures
• Adhere to aseptic technique when opening sterile packages and preparing for procedures
• Arrange instruments according to the given procedure and confirm instruments work properly
• Maintain availability of instruments and supplies to avoid delays
• Report observed or suspected breaks in sterile technique and take action according to policy
• Correctly use, care for, clean, and sterilize instruments, supplies, and equipment as directed
• Handle equipment and instruments to ensure appropriate availability and safety
• Maintain adequate supplies in the operating room for immediate access during procedures
• Assist in storing and stocking supplies as directed
• Maintain and update instrument cards and surgeons’ preference cards
• Respond in a timely manner to meet the needs of patients and physicians
• Document patient-care records and other forms according to facility policies and procedures
• Accurately advise others responsible for patient care about patient status
• Responsibility for assets: Not applicable
• Qualifications:
• Cooperative work attitude toward co-employees, management, patients, visitors, and physicians
• Ability to promote a favorable facility image with physicians, patients, insurance companies, and the general public
• Ability to make decisions and solve problems
• Requirements (Required):
• High school diploma or GED
• Accredited through CAAHEP or ABHES
• Completion of surgical scrub technician course
• Operating room experience
• Strong ethical and moral character references
• Requirements (Preferred):
• Two years’ previous operating room experience
• Ambulatory Surgery Center (ASC) experience
• Job quality requirements:
• Accuracy
• Attention to detail
• Timeliness
• Organization
• Ability to accomplish tasks with little supervision
• Dependability:
• Attendance
• Punctuality
• Ability to follow instructions
• Ability to meet deadlines
• Physical/mental requirements:
• Ability to sit/stand for long periods and walk
• Capability for occasional overhead and low reaching
• Physical strength for equipment needs and patient-care activities
• Visual and auditory acuity for timely response and patient-care assessment
• Ability to move quickly in response to patient needs
• Ability to make frequent judgments and respond to routine problems
• Ability to make occasional judgments and respond to disasters or emergencies, actual events, or drills
• Working conditions (environmental):
• Well lit and ventilated environment with non-hazardous and hazardous equipment
• Category I: involves occupational exposure to blood and other potentially infectious body fluids and materials
• Reports to: Clinical director
• Supervises: Not applicable
• Contacts:
• Patients
• Patients’ family/significant others
• Physicians and physician office personnel
• Facility personnel
• Vendors
• Administration
• Medical director
• Governing body