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SalaryResponsible for sterilizing and ensuring proper care of instruments.
Duties and responsibilities:
Philosophy:
Duties and responsibilities:
Philosophy:
- Supports the facility’s ideology, mission, goals, and objectives.
- Performs in accordance with the facility’s policies and procedures.
- Follows the facility’s standards for ethical business conduct.
- Conducts self as a positive role model and team member.
- Recognizes patients’ rights and responsibilities and supports them in performance of job duties.
- Participates in facility committees, meetings, in-services, and activities.
Communication:
- Communicates effectively and professionally with patients, visitors, physicians, and coworkers.
- Interacts with others in a positive, respectful, and considerate manner.
Financial practices:
- Uses facility resources appropriately and avoids wasteful practices.
- Reports wasteful practices.
- Analyzes work area and makes recommendations for potential cost-effective improvements.
- Compliance program.
- Contributes to the progress and development of the organization’s adopted compliance program.
- Performs according to established compliance policies and procedures.
Performance-improvement program:
- Contributes to the progress and development of the organization's adopted performance-improvement program.
- Performs according to established performance-improvement policies and procedures.
Safety/risk-management program:
- Adheres to safety policies and procedures in performing job duties and responsibilities.
- Reports observed or suspected safety violations, hazards, and policy/procedure.
- noncompliance to the safety officer or other designated person.
Professional competence:
- Participates in continuing education and other learning experiences.
- Shares knowledge gained in continuing education with staff.
- Maintains membership in relevant professional organizations.
- Seeks new learning experiences by accepting challenging opportunities and responsibilities.
- Welcomes suggestions and recommendations.
Duties:
- Maintains a clean and orderly central processing area (e.g., shelves, counters, equipment).
- Adheres to sterilization process policies and procedures.
- Cleans each item according to manufacturer’s instructions.
- Inspects instruments under microscope for damage and defects; lubricates items as required.
- Determines whether each item is in good working condition.
- Sorts and arranges items into proper trays according to established policy/procedure.
- Wraps trays and individual items according to established policy/procedure.
- Accurately labels each item with name and expiration date.
- Correctly operates sterilizers, ultrasonic washer, and other processing equipment. (i.e., positions items correctly in sterilizer, selects proper cycle, seeks assistance when needed.
- Checks equipment indicators for proper functionin.
- Performs required biological/chemical monitoring tests on all sterilizers and maintains logs according to established policy/procedur.
- Maintains availability of recording supplies for continuity of recording throughout sterilization proces.
- Maintains inventory levels and accurate record.
- Performs weekly inspections of all sterile items in facility.
- Checks for outdated items and package integrity of wrapped sterilized items; replaces items as necessary
- Places items in correct location.
- Maintains adequate inventory of supplies for the sterile processing are.
- Maintains/updates the instrument tray inventory lis.
- Accurately documents count of instruments loaned/returned to outside source.
Responsibility for assets: Instrument cleanliness/working condition.
Qualifications
- Cooperative work attitude toward co-employees, management, patients, visitors, and physicians.
- Ability to promote favorable facility image with physicians, patients, insurance companies, and general public.
- Ability to make decisions and solve problems.
Requirements Required:
- High school diploma or GED certificate.
- Strong ethical and moral character references.
- Training/courses in sterile technique, sterilization of instruments.
- Preferred.
- Instrument Processing Technician experience.
- ASC experience.
Job quality requirements:
- Accuracy.
- Attention to detail.
- Timeliness.
- Organization.
- Little supervision needed to accomplish tasks.
Physical/mental requirements:
- Ability to stand/walk for long periods.
- Ability to push, pull, lift, and position equipment and patients.
- Visual and auditory acuity for use of sterilization equipment.
Working conditions: (environmental)
- Well-lit and ventilated area with complicated equipment, some of which is hazardous in nature.
- Category III: exposure to bloodborne pathogens and may encounter chemical hazards.
Reports to Director of Nursing, Administrator Supervises Not applicable Contacts:
- Patients.
- Physicians.
- Facility personnel.
- Administration.
- Medical director.
