Position Summary
The Certified Surgical Technologist/LVN Surgical Technologist and the Surgical
Technologist assist in the nursing care and preparation of surgical patients in the
Outpatient and Main Operating Room. He/she functions as a member of the
sterile team in donning gown and gloves, creating and maintaining a sterile field
and issuing instruments to surgeons utilizing AORN standards of care.
Qualifications
to the department. Surgical Technologist I and II must obtain Certified
Surgical Technologist (CST) certification within six (6) months of hire or
transfer to position. Surgical Technologists who were employed before
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September 1, 2009, may remain employed as surgical technologists
without meeting the certification requirement.
staff.
Unusual Physical Demands And Working Conditions
The Certified Surgical Technologist/LVN Surgical Technologist and the Surgical
Technologist assist in the nursing care and preparation of surgical patients in the
Outpatient and Main Operating Room. He/she functions as a member of the
sterile team in donning gown and gloves, creating and maintaining a sterile field
and issuing instruments to surgeons utilizing AORN standards of care.
Qualifications
- Education:
to the department. Surgical Technologist I and II must obtain Certified
Surgical Technologist (CST) certification within six (6) months of hire or
transfer to position. Surgical Technologists who were employed before
Page 3 of 4
September 1, 2009, may remain employed as surgical technologists
without meeting the certification requirement.
- Training and Experience:
- Current Basic Life Support (BL)S Certification through the American
- Complete the following competencies within three (3) months of
- Aseptic technique
- Gowning and gloving
- Surgical hand scrub
- Surgical case preparation
- Sterile case set-up
- Surgical draping
- Intraoperative actions
- Postoperative actions
- ST and CST levels are based off of a point system designed in the
- Basic DaVinci Robotic Surgery proficiency-within one (1) year for
staff.
Unusual Physical Demands And Working Conditions
- Ability to perform:
- Heavy lifting
- Sustained standing and walking
- Work under stress
- Varied work hours and shifts
- Comply with Call Schedule
- May encounter exposure to infectious diseases
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