Company: Kaiser Permanente
Location: Clackamas, OR
Career Level: Entry Level
Industries: Recruitment Agency, Staffing, Job Board
Description
Job Summary:
Participates with the Health Care Team in delivering quality health care to patients in a manner which reflects Kaiser Permanente's mission, vision, and values while supporting the Labor Management Partnership (LMP) principles and practice. Participates in creating a high-performance culture based on a joint decision-making process in accordance with the Labor Management Partnership Vision Reaffirmation and Understandings Booklet. Provides support and assistance to the patient and Health Care team to promote population-based care, continuity of care, customer satisfaction, and self-care. Demonstrates strong interpersonal and communication skills with a caring, courteous, flexible, supportive, respectful, open minded, appreciative attitude that is committed to a team environment. The Surgical Technologist performs in the scrub role during surgical procedures and coordinates other activities with other OR professionals.
Essential Responsibilities:
- Practice standards of performance:
- Complies with shift, unit and organizational policies and procedures including reliability and attendance standards.
- Monitors and takes corrective action to prevent recurring absences.
- Returns promptly from breaks and schedules them to provide adequate coverage.
- Restricts personal business to non-patient care areas during break times.
- Complies with Kaisers Time Keeping Policy to accurately reflect productive time worked.
- Takes responsibility to keep informed of organizational policies and current information as provided by employer through multiple avenues.
- Complies with contractual responsibilities related to work schedule.
- Participates in unit Quality Assurance Programs.
- Maintains current knowledge and skill base with personal commitment to continuous learning and professional development.
- Utilizes professional communication techniques.
- Maintains confidentiality of all patient and organizational records. (HIPPA Standards).
- Promotes collaboration and professional interaction with the health care team.
- Promotes professional conduct, knows and complies with department Standards of Behavior. (group norms)
- Promotes and utilizes professional communication techniques.
- Attends inservices related to job description as appropriate.
- Demonstrates awareness of new concepts and skills.
- Attends and constructively participates in staff meetings.
- Demonstrates awareness of new information posted in the communication notebook.
- Assessment Standard of Performance:
- Communicates information so that continuity of care is maintained.
- Communicates with patient, family and other staff in a professional and courteous manner.
- Obtains and demonstrates the skills and knowledge needed to provide appropriate population based and culturally sensitive care to patients and families through education, training and experience.
- Participates in accurate pre-operative briefing and time out.
- Provides continuous reassessment through the intra operative period.
- Planning Standard of Performance:
- Utilizes knowledge of type of procedure to plan for appropriate set up.
- Obtains and demonstrates the skills and knowledge needed to provide age appropriate care to patients through education, training and experience.
- Implementation Standard of Performance:
- Initiates appropriate measures based on protocol for the management of the intra- operative patient.
- Applies principles of aseptic technique.
- Evaluates sterile packs and supplies.
- Provides a well organized sterile area. Is aware of procedures progression and anticipates the needs of the team, observing sterile technique at all times.
- Performs all necessary procedures correctly to ensure patient safety intra operatively.
- Applies and assists with the principles of correct body alignment in positioning and transferring patients.
- Examines unused equipment and instruments for gross contamination and transports covered used instruments to utility room.
- Responsible for sterile core activities, able to prioritize duties:
- Completion of picking case carts, restocking, reordering supplies as needed, assisting with O.R. room needs as necessary.
- Assists with appropriate measures in emergency situations.
- Works in conjunction with Circulator in preparation for the next scheduled case.
- Initiates and facilitates room turnovers:
- Light housekeeping duties, procurement of equipment, supplies and X-Rays.
- Restocking of unused supplies and equipment.
- Participates in the reprocessing process.
Basic Qualifications:
Experience
- N/A
Education
- Graduate of an accredited School of Surgical Technology.
License, Certification, Registration
- Surgical Technologist Certificate required at hire
- Basic Life Support required at hire
Additional Requirements:
- Knowledge of sterile core area.
- Knowledge of sterile technique; operating room procedures and equipment; dexterity with hands; effective relationships with people; ability to exercise good judgment and discipline.
- Able to follow instruction.
- Demonstrates an ability to perform all duties required of a Surgical Technologist in accordance with established procedures in completion of skills check
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