JOB DESCRIPTION & QUALIFICATIONS
Description
What You Will Do
Provides safe efficient age specific nursing care to patients / families using nursing interventions in order to assist them to attain, maintain regain, and sustain optimal health status.
Essential Duties include :
- Provide patient care / function in primary scrub position in procedures that competency has been demonstrated.
- Assist with technical responsibilities in assigned operative procedures.
- Assure appropriate instruments / supplies are present and in proper working condition.
- Provide labeled medications with correct doses on the sterile field medication.
- Perform other duties which support the operative team, includes following patient care hand-off protocol.
- Involved in learning and self-improvement.
- Uses a wide variety of technical equipment to meet patient needs and prescribed medical therapies.
Additional Responsibilities
- Performs other duties as assigned.
- Complies with all policies and standards.
- For specific duties and responsibilities, refer to documentation provided by the department during orientation.
- Must abide by all requirements to safely and securely maintain Protected Health Information (PHI) for our patients. Annual training, the UH Code of Conduct and UH policies and procedures are in place to address appropriate use of PHI in the workplace.
Qualifications
Education
- Other Accredited Program Enrollment in final year of a Surgical Technologist program (Required) or
- Bachelor’s Degree Completion of bachelor’s degree with current enrollment in an accredited medical school (Required)
Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities
- Thorough knowledge of asepsis, instrumentation suture, and surgical procedures. (Required proficiency)
- Good communication skills are essential. (Required proficiency)
- Ability to use a wide variety of technical equipment to meet patient care needs and prescribed medical therapies (Required proficiency)
Licenses and Certifications
Basic Life Support (BLS) within 90 Days (Required)
Physical Demands
- Standing Frequently
- Walking Frequently
- Sitting Rarely
- Lifting Frequently 50 lbs
- Carrying Frequently 50 lbs
- Pushing Frequently 50 lbs
- Pulling Frequently 50 lbs
- Climbing Occasionally 50 lbs
- Balancing Occasionally
- Stooping Frequently
- Kneeling Frequently
- Crouching Frequently
- Crawling Occasionally
- Reaching Frequently
- Handling Frequently
- Grasping Frequently
- Feeling Constantly
- Talking Constantly
- Hearing Constantly
- Repetitive Motions Constantly
- Eye / Hand / Foot Coordination Constantly
Travel Requirements
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LOCATION
University Hospitals is a national leader in healthcare that takes pride in calling North-East, Ohio home. With more than 150 locations throughout Cleveland and the surrounding metropolitan areas, UH provides unique opportunities to deliver world-class care in the communities where our employees live, work, and play.
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