Description

THIS POSITION QUALIFIES FOR A $10,000 TWO YEAR COMMITMENT INCENTIVE OR A $15,000 THREE YEAR COMMITMENT INCENTIVE.

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Summary:

The Surgical Technologist II – CVOR to provides

support for surgical and interventional cardiac and/or vascular cases,

facilitating the safe and effective conduct of invasive surgical procedures,

ensuring that the operating room environment is safe, that equipment functions

properly, and that the operative procedure is conducted under conditions that

maximize patient safety. Surgical technologists possess expertise in the theory

and application of sterile and aseptic technique and combine the knowledge of

human anatomy, surgical procedures, and implementation tools and technologies

to facilitate a physician's performance of invasive therapeutic and diagnostic

procedures. Performs surgical scrub duties across multiple services. Serves as a resource in at least one service

line. Call is required to ensure emergent patient needs are met.

Responsibilities:

1. Performs technical skill duties in all operating room specialty service areas, ensuring that proper technical practices are employed according to accepted standards of process.

2. Provides proper maintenance, assembly, handling, and sterilization techniques of specialty instrumentation.

3. Follows aseptic technique. Proactively identifies contamination and/or breaks in aseptic technique and implements corrective actions.

4. Performs surgical counts. Follows policies and procedures for incorrect counts and reports discrepancies appropriately.

5. Establishes and maintains sterile field and assures team maintains sterile environment independently. Labels drugs and solutions; monitors quantities used.

6. Assists in the proper identification, preparation, handling, and labeling of surgical specimens.

7. Actively participates in the planning and set up of instruments, supplies, and surgical drapes in an organized manner to provide optimal accessibility during the procedure.

8. Assists the surgeon, demonstrating an understanding of the patient’s anatomy and abnormalities which affect the surgical procedure.

9. Assists team members to place and position patient on table.

10. Reviews Physician preference lists, checks supplies, and instruments required for each surgical procedure. Demonstrates appropriate and correct case preparation. Assists in picking cases and planning of instrument needs. Corrects deficiencies at the case level.

11. Recognizes and modifies scrubbing procedures based on pertinent information to develop modifications to standard approaches to care and communicates with the surgical team. Responds to surgical emergencies and follows hospital wide emergency management plans.

12. Inventories, receives, and stores supplies under the direction of Surgical Services leadership.

13. Serves as role model for new hires, on the job trainees, and other identified teammates. Serves as a mentor for Surgical Tech peers and participates in teaching, guiding, and evaluating the performance of peers during orientation and annual review process.

14. Identifies and reports defective instruments, supplies, and equipment. Assists with restocking operating/procedure rooms and sub-sterile areas.

15. Assists the registered nurse during the intraoperative implementation phase of nursing practice.

16. Participates in data collection for research projects under the direction of an RN.

17. Operates complex equipment and other resources in the operating room, troubleshooting as necessary.

18. Perform daily cleaning, stocking, verification of all emergency carts are stocked and trays are updated.

Other Information

Other information:

Education Requirements:

● High School Diploma or equivalent

Graduate of an accredited Surgical Technology or Nursing Program; or

Graduate of a Military Training Program in Surgical Technology; or

Formal education/training may be substituted for individuals with 3+ years of prior experience as a surgical tech

Licensure/Certification Requirements:

● Basic Life Support (BLS) for Healthcare Provider certification

Professional Experience Requirements:

● One (1) year experience as a Surgical Technician

CVOR experience in the following areas strongly preferred:

Cardiac- Knowledge of Coronary Artery Bypass, Aoritc and Mitral Valve, minimally invasive heart valve surgery, ECMO, Balloon Pump insertion, circulatory arrest, aortic dissection, lead placement and removal, TAVR, Impella placement, familiar with various types of wire and catheters used for interventional cases.

Vascular- Knowledge of various vascular standard OR cases, and Hybrid vascular cases inlcuding EVAR and TCAR.

Knowledge/Skills/and Abilities Requirements:

● Language Skills: Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintain ace instructions, and policy and procedure manuals. Ability to effectively communicate information and respond to questions from patients, physicians, family members and other staff. Mathematical Skills: Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide all units of measure, using whole numbers, fractions and decimals. Reasoning Ability: Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed written or oral instructions, and to define problems, collect data.

Job Details

Legal Employer: NCHEALTH

Entity: UNC REX Healthcare

Organization Unit: Rex CVOR

Work Type: Full Time

Standard Hours Per Week: 40.00

Salary Range: $24.73 - $35.56 per hour (Hiring Range)

Pay offers are determined by experience and internal equity

Work Assignment Type: Onsite

Work Schedule: Day Job

Location of Job: US:NC:Raleigh

Exempt From Overtime: Exempt: No

This position is employed by NC Health (Rex Healthcare, Inc., d/b/a NC Health), a private, fully-owned subsidiary of UNC Heath Care System. This is not a State employed position.

Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

UNC Health makes reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as applicants and employees with disabilities. All interested applicants are invited to apply for career opportunities. Please email applicant.accommodations@unchealth.unc.edu if you need a reasonable accommodation to search and/or to apply for a career opportunity.

Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.