Travel Surg Tech - $1,631 per week in Chapel Hill, NC

Job Title: Surgical Technician II Profession: Surgical Technician Specialty: CVOR Duration: 13 weeks Shift: Days Hours per Shift: 12 hours Experience: One year experience as a Surgical Technician preferred License: Not specified Certifications: Basic Life Support (BLS) for Healthcare Provider certification Must-Have: - Knowledge of various vascular standard OR cases, and hybrid vascular cases including EVAR and TCAR. - Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and policy and procedure manuals. - Ability to effectively communicate information and respond to questions. - Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide all units of measure, using whole numbers, fractions, and decimals. - Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed written or oral instructions, and to define problems and collect data. Description: Performs technical skill duties in all operating room specialty service areas, ensuring that proper technical practices are employed according to accepted standards of process. Provides proper maintenance, assembly, handling, and sterilization techniques of specialty instrumentation. Follows aseptic technique. Proactively identifies contamination and/or breaks in aseptic technique and implements corrective actions. Performs surgical counts. Follows policies and procedures for incorrect counts and reports discrepancies appropriately. Establishes and maintains sterile field and assures the team maintains a sterile environment independently. Labels drugs and solutions and monitors quantities used. Assists in the proper identification, preparation, handling, and labeling of surgical specimens. Actively participates in the planning and setup of instruments, supplies, and surgical drapes in an organized manner to provide optimal accessibility during the procedure. Assists the surgeon, demonstrating an understanding of the patient's anatomy and abnormalities which affect the surgical procedure. Assists team members to place and position patient on the table. Reviews physician preference lists, checks supplies, and instruments required for each surgical procedure. Demonstrates appropriate and correct case preparation. Assists in picking cases and planning of instrument needs. Corrects deficiencies at the case level. Recognizes and modifies scrubbing procedures based on pertinent information to develop modifications to standard approaches to care and communicates with the surgical team. Responds to surgical emergencies and follows hospital-wide emergency management plans. Inventories, receives, and stores supplies under the direction of Surgical Services leadership. Serves as a role model for new hires, on-the-job trainees, and other identified teammates. Serves as a mentor for Surgical Tech peers and participates in teaching, guiding, and evaluating the performance of peers during orientation and the annual review process. Identifies and reports defective instruments, supplies, and equipment. Assists with restocking operating/procedure rooms and sub-sterile areas. Assists the registered nurse during the intraoperative implementation phase of nursing practice. Participates in data collection for research projects under the direction of an RN. Operates complex equipment and other resources in the operating room, troubleshooting as necessary. Performs daily cleaning, stocking, and verification of all emergency carts are stocked and trays are updated.