Surgical Technologist – Sign on Bonus Position Available In Jefferson, Louisiana
Tallo's Job Summary: As a Surgical Technologist at Lakeside Hospital, your role is crucial in ensuring safe surgeries for every patient. Your responsibilities include maintaining a sterile environment, preparing instrumentation, assisting the surgeon, and following aseptic techniques. Required qualifications include graduation from an accredited program and current BLS certification. Join our team and make a difference in healthcare with LCMC Health.
Job Description
Surgical Technologist – Sign on Bonus
Your job is more than a job.
As a trusted member of the operating room team, your top priority as a Surgical Technologist is a safe surgery for every patient. You’re the watch dog in the OR protecting patients from harm by maintaining a sterile environment. It’s all about preparation and anticipation, ensuring the instrumentation and equipment is there when the surgeon needs it. As a Surgical Tech you’re an extra pair of hands when needed passing out surgical instruments, positioning the patient, or sometimes, holding retractors if the surgeon asks. Stress? Not a problem, you say, because you thrive on responsibility, focus on the little things, and organize like nobody’s business. And that’s what we love about you. Your experiences, knowledge, skills, your empathy, compassion, personality, all of it adds up to you. And we’re excited to get to know you and find out what you’ll bring to this crucial surgical team role. Your Everyday
Assist the circulating nurse with patient positioning, confirmation/preparation of operative site, care of operative specimens and room turnover.
Establish and maintain an organized sterile field.
Use proper sterilization methods for instruments prior to procedures.
Understand asepsis and the standards and techniques to addressing asepsis and takes corrective action when any unsafe practice, conditions or breaks occur.
Prepare the operating room with sterile supplies, instruments, and sutures.
Follow policies for scrubbing, gowning, gloving, draping and counting with the circulating nurse.
Perform the role of first scrub on basic surgical cases.
Anticipate the needs and assists the surgeon with retracting tissue, holding instrumentation and cutting suture.
The Must-Haves
Minimum:
Graduate of an accredited Surgical Technologist program
Current BLS certification
Preferred:
Surgical Technician certification
Previous experience as a surgical technologist
WORK SHIFT
Days (United States of America)
LCMC Health is a community. Our people make health happen. While our NOLA roots run deep, our branches are the vessels that carry our mission of bringing the best possible care to every person and parish in Louisiana and beyond and put a little more heart and soul into healthcare along the way. Celebrating authenticity, originality, equity, inclusion and a little “come on in” attitude is the foundation of LCMC Health’s culture of everyday extraordinary
Lakeside Hospital has a heritage rooted in extraordinary care for women and babies, while evolving to meet the healthcare needs of the whole family. As an essential part of LCMC Health’s incredible community of care, Lakeside Hospital brings a new level of expert care by going the extra mile, treating the whole patient and not just a condition.
