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Certified Surgical Scrub Technician PT
Overview
As a Certified Surgical Scrub Technician PT, you’ll develop and lead multi-faceted web-based strategies for some of the most recognized names in the world. You’ll be the face of our software solutions, analytics and digital capabilities — able to explain the complex in simple ways to your colleagues and clients. And you’ll come up with innovative approaches that change the way companies and candidates connect.
Success Profile
What makes a successful Certified Surgical Scrub Technician PTat our location? Check out the top traits we’re looking for and see if you have the right mix.
- Flexibility
- Attention to Detail
- Compassion
- Emotional Stability
- Adaptability
- Strong Clinical Judgment
Culture
Our mission is to treat each and every one of our patients, and their families, as if they were our own family member. Each patient, each family, each and every time.
- Working with compassion and respect for others and each other, supporting our communities and advocating for our patients
- Acting with integrity and the highest ethical standards – always
- Delivering results through accountability and transparency
- Embracing inclusiveness for all people in our workplace and in the communities we serve
Career Path
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Nurse Manager leads to Job Title 2
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Clinical Director (CNO) leads to Job Title 3 or Job Title 4
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Administrator (CEO) leads to Job Title 5
Benefits
Providing a comprehensive benefits package is paramount, as we not only take care of our communities but also foster an environment of support for one another.
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Work/Life Balance
Most of our ASC's offer daytime schedules, with no weekends and nights, and no call. (Schedules vary at our surgical centers.)
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Learning and Education
Employees have access to thousands of free online courses to further their education at their own schedule.
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Leadership and Executive Development
Whether a clinician is interested in advancing to a leadership position or a business office staff member aspires to be a hospital CFO, various programs are available.
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Coaching and Mentorship
We are committed to devoting energy and attention to grow our team members and create a lasting impact on our care. By coaching, challenging and further developing our best and brightest team members, we foster an environment to build long-term sustainable growth for our organization.
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Military and Veterans Support
Our values of working efficiently and uniting for a higher purpose align well with those of our military and veteran community. We would love to assist you with skill and experience equivalency mapping to ease your transition into a successful civilian career.
Responsibilities
Bluffton Okatie Surgery Center is a multi-specialty surgical center.
We are seeking to add a PART-TIME SURGICAL TECHNICIAN to our amazing clinical team.
- Surgical technicians assist surgeons and other medical professionals in hospital operating rooms and similar environments.
- Chiefly, they prepare patients, rooms, and equipment for pending surgical procedures.
- They also assist during those procedures as part of a team of operating room professionals.
- They are an integral part of ensuring sterile procedures/protocols are being followed.
- In preparing operating rooms, surgical technicians ensure that all of the equipment needed for the procedure is properly disinfected and assembled.
- They also check that the equipment is in working order.
- They place sterile solutions in areas where they can be easily reached by doctors.
- To prepare patients for surgery, surgical technicians may clean, shave and disinfect the areas of a patient's body that will be operated on.
- They then move patients to the OR and position them on the operating table, using sterile surgical drapes to cover them.
- Monitoring patients' vital signs and observing their status is another job responsibility of a surgical technician.
- During surgery, surgical technicians pass sterile surgical equipment, such as scalpels and forceps, to surgeons.
- They also might cut sutures, keep track of items like sponges and needles, operate lights, and help dress a patient's wounds.
- Additionally, surgical techs are sometimes responsible for the preparation and disposal of lab specimens.
Required Skills:
- High school graduate or equivalent
- Previous clinical experience in an Operating Room environment is desired.
- Certification in OR Technology or Surgical Technology approved by the state of SC is required unless grandfather or excluded per regulation.
- Current certification in CPR.
- Collaborative and Positive disposition towards teamwork is required.
- In addition to making sure anyone entering the surgical area has "scrubbed," surgical technologists or scrub techs must make sure that all the instruments they will be using are, too.
- Scrub techs also have the responsibility to make sure that all the equipment and tools the surgical staff are using are clean and safe so that there's no harm to the patient.
- Surgical technologists must confirm that all the instruments are collected and sterilized after surgery and that the operating room is cleaned and totally disinfected for the next procedure
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