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We are looking for O.R. Scrub Technician - Outpatient with at least 1 year experience.
Note: This Position is both Permanent and Per Diem
Job Location: Whit Plains, NY
Job Details -
- Essential functions and responsibilities as per New York Public Health Law 2824 – Surgical technology and surgical technologists,
- Performs nursing procedures per WPH policy.
- Checks supplies and equipment prior to surgical procedure.
- Scrubs, sets up, counts and assists intra-operatively.
- Maintains highest standard of sterile technique.
- Assists surgeon and RN with post-procedure care.
- Handles specimens appropriately.
- Prepares instruments for decontamination.
- Assists with preparing/picking OR cases.
- Follows WPH policies and procedures for Infection Control and Fire Code.
- Identifies malfunctioning equipment appropriately.
- Follows patient safety standards.
- Responds appropriately in emergency situations.
- Completes competency requirements.
- Attends all mandatory in-services.
- Utilizes cost containment practices.Completes 15 hours of Continuing Education Credits as required by New York State Law (Effective January 1, 2015). The act shall take place on the first day of the eighteenth month after it becomes law (July 1, 2016).
- Performs all other related duties as assigned
Required Qualifications:
- High School Diploma or GED required and must meet one of the following:
- Graduate from a CAAHEP- or ABHES- accredited program and holds and maintains CST certification (“has successfully completed a nationally accredited educational program for surgical technologists and holds and maintains a Certified Surgical Technologist credential administered by a nationally accredited surgical technologist credentialing organization”); or
- Completed a military surgical technology program; or
- Is grandfathered. A person may be grandfathered by providing evidence that he or she was employed as a surgical technologist in a healthcare facility for a cumulative period of one year, occurring within the four years immediately prior to the effective date of this section. (The effective date is 18 months after it becomes law.) Any employer of persons performing surgical technology on the effective date of this section shall confirm in writing to each employee his or her employment in a capacity performing surgical technology in a healthcare facility as of the effective date of this section; or
- Is in the service of the federal government, to the extent the person is performing duties related to that service.
- Prior experience as Surgical Technologist preferred.
- Certification by a nationally accredited surgical technologist credentialing organization.
- Grace Period for Recent Graduates A person may be employed or contracted to practice surgical technology during the 12-month period immediately following successful completion of a nationally- accredited surgical technology program, but may not continue to be employed or contracted with beyond
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Job Types: Full-time, Part-time
Pay: $64,000.00 - $95,000.00 per year
Expected hours: 40 per week
Physical setting:
- Acute care
- Clinic
- Hospital
- Inpatient
- Long term care
Standard shift:
- Day shift
- Evening shift
- Night shift
- Overnight shift
Supplemental pay types:
Weekly schedule:
- 5x8
- Every weekend
- Monday to Friday
- Rotating weekends
Ability to Relocate:
- White Plains, NY: Relocate before starting work (Required)
Work Location: In person