Job description
Certified Surgical Technologist (CST) needed on the MS Gulf Coast
Job Highlights
- Pay $23-$30/hr
- Full-time
- M-F
- Weekly pay
Requirements
- Completion of a Surgical Tech course having a certification
- 1 year of experience required
- Reliable and Personable
- Hands-on BLS certification
- TB test
- Background
- Physical
Responsibilities
- Helps prepare the operating room by setting up surgical instruments and equipment, sterile drapes, and sterile solutions.
- Assembles both sterile and non-sterile equipment, as well as adjusts and checks it to ensure it is working properly.
- Prepares patients for surgery by washing, shaving, and disinfecting incision sites.
- Transports patients to the operating room, helps position them on the operating table, and covers them with sterile surgical drapes. Checks patient charts. Assists the surgical team with putting on sterile gowns and gloves.
- Passes instruments and other sterile supplies to surgeons and surgeon assistants during surgery. May hold retractors, cut sutures, and help count sponges, needles, supplies, and instruments. Observes patient vital signs. Helps prepare, care for, and dispose of specimens taken for laboratory analysis and helps apply dressings. May operate sterilizers, lights, or suction machines and helps operate diagnostic equipment.
- Occasionally helps to transfer patients to the recovery room after surgery and cleans/restocks the operating room.
Benefits Offered
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Vision insurance
Healthcare setting
- Ambulatory Surgery Center
Medical Specialties