Title: Operating Room Surgical Tech
Location: Hillsboro, OR
Participates w/ the Health Care Team in delivering quality health care to patients in a manner which reflects KP's mission, vision, & values while supporting the LMP principles & practice. Participates in creating a high-performance culture based on a joint decision making process in accordance w/ the 'Labor Management Partnership Vision Reaffirmation & Understandings Booklet'. Provides support & assistance to the patient & Health Care team to promote population-based care, continuity of care, customer satisfaction, & self-care. Demonstrates strong interpersonal & communication skills w/ 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 & coordinates other activities.
Essential Functions:
- Complies w/ shift, unit & organizational policies & procedures including reliability & attendance standards
- Monitors & takes corrective action to prevent recurring absences
- Returns promptly from breaks & schedules them to provide adequate coverage
- Restricts personal business to non-patient care areas during break times
- Complies w/ Kaiser's Time Keeping Policy to accurately reflect productive time worked
- Takes responsibility to keep informed of organizational policies & current information as provided by employer through multiple avenues
- Complies w/ contractual responsibilities related to work schedule
- Participates in unit Quality Assurance Programs
- Maintains current knowledge & skill base w/ personal commitment to continuous learning & professional development
- Utilizes professional communication techniques
- Maintains confidentiality of all patient & organizational records(HIPAA Standards)
- Promotes collaboration & professional interaction w/ the health care team
- Promotes professional conduct, knows & complies w/ department Standards of Behavior(group norms)
- Promotes & utilizes professional communication techniques
- Attends inservices related to job description as appropriate
- Demonstrates awareness of new concepts & skills
- Attends & constructively participates in staff meetings
- Demonstrates awareness of new information posted in the communication notebook
- Communicates information so that continuity of care is maintained
- Communicates w/ patient, family & other staff in a professional & courteous manner
- Obtains & demonstrates the skills & knowledge needed to provide appropriate population based & culturally sensitive care to patients & families through education, training & experience
- Participates in accurate pre-operative briefing & time out & debriefing
- Provides continuous reassessment through the intra operative period
- Prepares rooms & assists as needed for procedures
- Assist RN as directed
- Perform administrative duties as needed
- Utilizes knowledge of type of procedure to plan for appropriate set up
- Obtains & demonstrates the skills & knowledge needed to provide age appropriate care to patients through education, training & experience
- Initiates appropriate measures based on protocol for the management of the intra- operative patient
- Applies principles of aseptic technique
- Evaluates sterile packs & supplies
- Provides a well organized sterile area
- Is aware of procedure's progression & anticipates the needs of the team, observing sterile technique at all times
- Performs all necessary procedures correctly to ensure patient safety intra operatively
- Applies & assists w/ the principles of correct body alignment in positioning & transferring patients
- This Job Description is not all encompassing
Qualifications:
Basic Qualifications:
- One (1) to two (2) years of scrubbing experience and/or graduate of an accredited School of Surgical Technology with a finished practicum in an inpatient or ambulatory OR setting involving scrubbing experience
- One (1) to two (2) years of scrubbing experience and/or finished practicum in an inpatient or ambulatory OR setting involving scrubbing experience
- Basic Life Support (BLS) for Healthcare Providers
- 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
- Knowledge of sterile core area

Preferred Qualifications:
- Three (3) to five (5) years of scrubbing experience in all surgical procedures in inpatient or ambulatory OR setting
- CST preferred