I.              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.

 

 

I.              Qualifications:

 

A.        Education:

           

            Current Surgical Technologist Certification or eligible. Surgical Technologist I and II must obtain CST certification within 6 months of hire or transfer to position. Surgical Technologists who were employed before September 1, 2009 may remain employed as a surgical technologist without meeting the certification requirement. 

           

B.        Training and Experience:

 

1.            Current BLS Certification through the American Heart Association upon hire or transfer to department.

 

2.            Complete the following competencies within 3 months of hire or transfer to department:

 

·         Aseptic technique

·         Gowning and gloving

·         Surgical hand scrub

·         Surgical case preparation

·         Sterile case set-up

·         Surgical draping

·         Intraoperative actions

·         Postoperative actions

 

3.            ST and CST levels are based off of a point system designed in the career ladder.

 

4.            Basic daVinci Robotic Surgery proficiency-within 1 year for

     new hires; within 2 years of signing job description for tenured staff.