Surgical Technologist

Company: Saratoga Hospital
Location: Saratoga Springs
Posted on: June 12, 2021

Job Description:

# Summary of Position: Assists surgical staff with direct patient care activities.# Assumes responsibility for providing technical assistance in the operating room.# Plans and evaluates care provided.# Assists in the delivery of quality patient care through utilization of technical skills.# Performs technical duties relating to scrub role, including smooth, precise, and efficient reaction all situations, and assists with departmental work as assigned.# Participates in staff, patient and/or family education to a degree consistent with personal knowledge base.# Participates in unit QI activities.# Knows the legal limitations relating to the role of surgical technologist and acts accordingly. Minimum Qualifications: High school diploma.# Has successfully completed a nationally accredited educational program for surgical technologists and holds and maintains a certified surgical technologist credential administered by a nationally accredited surgical technologist credentialing organization; has completed an appropriate training program for surgical technology in the United States Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, or Public Health Service Commissioned Corps; provides evidence that the person was employed as a surgical technologist in a healthcare facility for a cumulative period of one year, occurring with the four years immediately prior to January 1, 2015; or is in the service of the federal government, to the extent the person is performing duties related to that service. # # # # # # #

Summary of Position:

Assists surgical staff with direct patient care activities. Assumes responsibility for providing technical assistance in the operating room. Plans and evaluates care provided. Assists in the delivery of quality patient care through utilization of technical skills. Performs technical duties relating to scrub role, including smooth, precise, and efficient reaction all situations, and assists with departmental work as assigned. Participates in staff, patient and/or family education to a degree consistent with personal knowledge base. Participates in unit QI activities. Knows the legal limitations relating to the role of surgical technologist and acts accordingly.

Minimum Qualifications:

High school diploma. Has successfully completed a nationally accredited educational program for surgical technologists and holds and maintains a certified surgical technologist credential administered by a nationally accredited surgical technologist credentialing organization; has completed an appropriate training program for surgical technology in the United States Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, or Public Health Service Commissioned Corps; provides evidence that the person was employed as a surgical technologist in a healthcare facility for a cumulative period of one year, occurring with the four years immediately prior to January 1, 2015; or is in the service of the federal government, to the extent the person is performing duties related to that service.

Keywords: Saratoga Hospital, Albany , Surgical Technologist, Other , Saratoga Springs, New York