Operating Room Specialist

The Surgical Technologist plays a vital role in ensuring the success of medical procedures.

• Pre-Procedure Preparation: Assist with preparation of procedure room, inventory of supplies and stocking of supplies in the procedure room and stock room.
• Procedure Setup and Maintenance: Maintain and set up procedure room in compliance with policies and procedures and state and federal regulations.
• Supply Management: Stock procedure room and procedure trays with all needed supplies and interventional equipment prior to procedure.
• Post-Procedure Cleaning: Clean the procedure room including the equipment and machinery post procedure.
• Patient Support: May assist with preparing the patient for the surgical procedure by positioning, shaving and prepping.
• Additional Tasks: Performs additional tasks as designated by Physician, practicing in compliance with state regulations.
• Medication Administration: Prepares and administers medications within the scope of practice and state regulations.
• Patient Transfers and Positioning: Performs patient transfers and positioning of patients and transports patient to and from procedure room.
• Scrub Assistant Role: Acts as scrub assistant assisting the physician during interventional procedures under fluoroscopy; maintaining a sterile technique according to the established company policies and procedures and state and federal regulations.
• Intravenous Medication Preparation: Draws up intravenous medication and labels as per Medication Labeling Policy, and Medication in the Sterile Field Competency.
• Circulating Duties: Performs circulating duties in the procedure room.
• HIPAA Compliance: Complies with HIPAA policies and standards in regards to patient confidentiality.
• Environmental Integrity: Assists with maintaining environmental integrity and aesthetics. Ensures all areas are clean, sanitary and safe on a daily basis. Ensures all facility equipment and instruments are in proper working condition by inspecting equipment on a daily basis before and after procedures.
• Equipment Maintenance: May perform minor equipment repairs and general upkeep. Communicate problems to supervisor and document issues in the communications log.
• Waste Disposal: Assists with disposal of hazardous waste materials, dirty linen and rugs.
• Instrument Sterilization: May assist with instrument sterilization and packaging of surgical instruments.
• Supply Efficiency: Assists with preparing, organizing, and efficiently utilizing supplies and equipment to prevent wastage.
• Quality Patient Care: Provides outstanding quality of patient care by supporting and driving quality standards through meeting regulatory requirements and the practice of Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI), including use of CQI tools.
• Quality Implementation: Assists with implementing quality goals and facility specific action plans in order to achieve quality standards.
• Medical Record Integrity: Maintains integrity of medical records and other administrative and operational records.
• Data Collection: Complies with all data collection and auditing activities.
• Clerical and Practical Support: Provides clerical and practical support to physicians and staff:
• Supporting Physicians and Staff: Works with the physicians and staff to have all necessary instruments and equipment are on hand.
• Image Processing: May print images and send to the physician.
• Training and Orientation: May assist with training and orienting new employees on the medical equipment.
• File Maintenance: Files paperwork in patient files according to policies and procedures.
• Inventory and Supply Management: Assists with inventory, ordering of supplies and re-stocking of supplies.
• X-ray Image Processing: May process x-ray images after acquisitions.
• Archiving Patient Images: May archive patient images to a CD or DVD to comply with policies and procedures for patient medical records and state regulations.
• Regulatory Compliance: Participates in all facility regulatory and accreditation surveys and action plans to address any deficiencies identified.

Other Duties: As assigned by management.