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Certified Surgical Technologist Surgery
Full time 80 hours per pay period Day shift
weeknight and weekend call required
Covenant Health is the regions top performing healthcare network. Each of our more than 10000 employees physicians and volunteers are unified by one covenant: to put our patients first every day to strive for excellence in everything we do and to make Covenant Health the first and best choice in our region.
Cumberland Medical Center is a 189-bed hospital in Crossville Tennessee with more than 650 employees and 175 active physicians. It offers a full range of specialty services including cardiology gastroenterology surgery orthopedics maternity services cancer care and advanced wound care.
- Emergency Department: 24 emergency beds
- Critical Care Unit (ICU): 12 ICU beds
- Labor & Delivery: 12 LDRP suites
- Med/Surg: 37 beds
- Surgery: 9 operating room surgery suites
- Telemetry: 37 beds
Fully accredited by the Joint Commission Cumberland Medical Center is an acute care hospital offering all private patient rooms as well as specialized services not usually found in the rural medical system.
For seriously ill patients advanced medical and surgical care is provided at CMC including telemetry monitored beds and an intensive care unit. Additionally Cumberland Medical Center offers an outpatient imaging center same day surgery unit cardiac and pulmonary rehab programs a sleep disorder center breast center cancer center and hyperbaric medicine and wound center.
Cumberland Medical Center offers a unique family-oriented healthcare setting in a rural environment. We strive to deliver exceptional care to our patients their loved ones and each other. We look forward to welcoming team-focused people to grow their careers with us! -Chief Nursing Officer Cumberland Medical Center
Position Summary:
Facilitates patient care by assisting physicians and nursing staff before during and after surgical procedures by creating and maintaining a sterile field and providing the instruments and supplies required by the surgeons in a sterile manner according to the established plan of patient care. Competently performs with and/or without assistance the majority of assigned cases in a given service/shift; may perform difficult or complicated cases either with or without assistance.
Recruiter:
Responsibilities
- Under supervision of RN/MD facilitates patient care by assisting the surgeon before during and after surgical procedures by creating and maintaining a sterile field and providing the instruments and supplies required by the surgeons in a sterile manner according to the established plan for patient care; follows unit standards and processes to deliver age-appropriate care for all patients; demonstrates accountability as an individual and team member in meeting patient/family needs; participates in identifying cost-effective measures for clinical care.
- Plans sets up performs and cleans up the assigned surgical procedure as a circulator and/or as a scrub tech; demonstrates knowledge of equipment and instrumentation pertaining to case; safely operates special equipment which may be used in surgical cases (e.g. lasers microscopes tourniquets endoscopes drills saws etc.); maintains instrument and equipment integrity; performs room turn-over and terminal cleaning; utilizes supplies appropriately and in a cost effective manner.
- Demonstrates knowledge of and the ability to apply the principles of asepsis in creating and maintaining the sterile field; uses proper technique when scrubbing gowning gloving and setting up of sterile fields; recognizes what is sterile and what is unsterile; recognizes contamination and takes proper action to correct situation; continually monitors the sterile field and surgical team to assure that sterility is maintained.
- Assists nurse in performing sharp sponge and instrument counts according to policy as needed; demonstrates proper counting technique for all countables and applies proper procedures with incorrect counts; demonstrates understanding of exceptions to counts.
- Demonstrates proper positioning techniques; knows the proper position for cases and understands the use of proper positioning aids to protect nerves bony prominences and to maintain circulation.
- Follows policies procedures and safety standards. Completes required education assignments annually. Works toward achieving goals and objectives and participates in quality improvement initiatives as requested.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
Minimum Education:
None specified; however must be sufficient to meet the standards for achievement of the below indicated license and/or certification as required by the issuing authority.
Minimum Experience:
None with certification.
Licensure Requirements:
Must hold current and active national Certified Surgical Technologist (CST) certification established by the National Board of Surgical Technology and Surgical Assisting (NBSTSA).
Employment Type
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