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Surgical Technologist (Certified) Main OR

Vanderbilt University Medical Center

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Posted:
April 6, 2018
Location:
Nashville, Tennessee
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Description
 

Discover Vanderbilt University Medical Center:
Located in Nashville, Tennessee, and operating at a global crossroads of teaching, discovery and patient care, VUMC is a community of individuals who come to work each day with the simple aim of changing the world. It is a place where your expertise will be valued, your knowledge expanded and your abilities challenged. It is a place where your diversity — of culture, thinking, learning and leading — is sought and celebrated. It is a place where employees know they are part of something that is bigger than themselves, take exceptional pride in their work and never settle for what was good enough yesterday. Vanderbilt's mission is to advance health and wellness through preeminent programs in patient care, education, and research.

 
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Department/Unit Summary:

Vanderbilt Operating Room consist of 39 Operative Suites, Ortho, Cardiac, Neuro, General, General/Urology, Robotics, (GGUR), and Hepatic, General, Thoracic/Trauma, Vascular-Heart/Neck, Otolaryngology, Plastics, ENT, (HGTV-HOPE).

Your Role:

Facilitates patient care by assisting physicians/nursing staff before, during and after surgical procedures by creating and maintaining, a sterile field and providing the instruments and supplies required by the surgeons in a sterile manner according to established plan for patient care with occasional guidance. Is able to perform competently most of the cases in a given service/shift.

Position Shift:
  • Day and Night Shift
Our Nursing Philosophy:

We believe highly skilled and specialized nursing care is essential to Vanderbilt University Medical Center's mission of quality in patient care, education and research. We believe nursing is an applied art and science focused on helping people, families and communities reach excellent health and well-being.

Achieve the Remarkable:

Learn more about VUMC Nursing:

DDownload the Vanderbilt University Medical Center Facts 2016-2017 to learn more about our services and facilities.

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Facilitates patient care by assisting physicians/nursing staff before, during and after surgical procedures by creating and maintaining, a sterile field and providing the instruments and supplies required by the surgeons in a sterile manner according to established plan for patient care with occasional guidance. Is able to perform competently most of the cases in a given service/shift. For more information regarding the physical requirements and environmental conditions for this job, please click here .

Key Functions and Expected Performances:
  1. Core Accountabilities
    1. Organizational Impact: Performs tasks that are typically routine that may impact team's performance with occasional guidance.
    2. Problem Solving/Complexity of Work: Utilizes some discretion and research to solve routine problems.
    3. Breadth of Knowledge: Applies knowledge of standards, established processes and procedure that apply to your own job.
    4. Team Interaction: Provides guidance to entry level co-workers.
  2. Key Responsibilities
    1. Facilitates patient care, by assisting the surgeon before, during and after surgical procedures.
    2. Plans, sets up, performs and cleans up the assigned surgical procedure as a circulator and as a scrub tech.
    3. Demonstrates knowledge of and the ability to apply the Principles of Asepsis in creating and maintaining the sterile field.
    4. Performs sharp, sponge and instrument counts according to policy.
  3. Core Capabilities: Supporting Colleagues
    1. Develops Self and Others: Continuously improves own skills by identifying development opportunities
    2. Builds and Maintains Relationships: Seeks to understand colleagues priorities, working styles and develops relationships across areas
    3. Communicates Effectively: Openly shares information with others and communicates in a clear and courteous manner
  4. Core Capabilities: Delivering Excellent Services
    1. Serves Others with Compassion: Invests time to understand the problems, needs of others and how to provide excellent service
    2. Solves Complex Problems: Seeks to understand issues, solves routine problems, and raises proper concerns to supervisors in a timely manner
    3. Offers Meaningful Advice and Support: Listens carefully to understand the issues and provides accurate information and support
  5. Core Capabilities: Ensuring High Quality
    1. Performs excellent work: Checks work quality before delivery and asks relevant questions to meet quality standards
    2. Ensures continuous improvement: Shows eagerness to learn new knowledge, technologies, tools or systems and displays willingness to go above and beyond
    3. Fulfills safety and regulatory requirements: Demonstrates basic knowledge of conditions that affect safety and reports unsafe conditions to the appropriate person or department
  6. Core Capabilities: Managing Resources Effectively
    1. Demonstrates Accountability: Takes responsibility for completing assigned activities and thinks beyond standard approaches to provide high-quality work/service
    2. Stewards Organizational Resources: Displays understanding of how personal actions will impact departmental resources
    3. Makes Data Driven Decisions: Uses accurate information and good decision making to consistently achieve results on time and without error
  7. Core Capabilities: Fostering Innovation
    1. Generates New Ideas: Willingly proposes/accepts ideas or initiatives that will impact day-to-day operations by offering suggestions to enhance them
    2. Applies Technology: Absorbs new technology quickly; understands when to utilize the appropriate tools and procedures to ensure proper course of action
    3. Adapts to Change: Embraces change by keeping an open mind to changing plans and incorporates change instructions into own area of work
  8. Technical Capabilities
    1. Surgical Technology: Has limited experience, training, direct exposure, or past experience working with surgical technology.
    2. Surgical Equipment Knowledge: Knowledge of the specific equipment and its performance criteria, capabilities and limitations. Able to use the equipment to accomplish basic tasks associated with the specific devices. May conduct remedial maintenance and preventive maintenance.
    3. Operating Room Care: Has limited experience, training, direct exposure, or past experience working with operating room care.
    4. Environmental Sterility & Safety: Has limited experience, training, direct exposure, or past experience working with environmental sterility and safety.
    5. Procedures Knowledge: Has limited experience, training, direct exposure, or past experience working with procedures knowledge.
    6. Equipment Maintenance: Has limited experience, training, direct exposure, or past experience conducting maintenance activities in area of assignments.
    7. Inventory Management: Has limited experience, training, direct exposure, or past experience working with Inventory Management. Understands Inventory Management concepts and principles. Familiar with Inventory Management tools, processes, procedures and policies.

Internal Number: 1803173
About Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Vanderbilt University Medical Center is home to Vanderbilt University Hospital, The Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt, the Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital and the Vanderbilt Stallworth Rehabilitation Hospital. These hospitals experienced more than 61,000 inpatient admissions during fiscal year 2015. Vanderbilt’s adult and pediatric clinics treated nearly 2 million patients during this same period. Vanderbilt University Hospital and the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt are recognized again this year by U.S. News & World Report’s Best Hospitals as among the nation’s best with 18 nationally ranked specialties. Vanderbilt University Medical Center is world renowned because of the innovation, work ethic and collegiality of its employees. From our health care advances to our compassionate care, Vanderbilt owes its accomplishments and reputation to staff and faculty who bring skill and drive and innovation to the medical center day after day. World-leading academic departments and comprehensive centers of excellence pursue scientific discoveries and transformational educational and clinical advances across the entire spectrum of health and disea...se. As the largest employer in middle Tennessee, we welcome those who are interested in ongoing development in a caring, culturally sensitive and professional atmosphere. Most of us spend so much of our lives at work, we want to be part of maintaining a workplace in which people support one another and encourage reaching for excellence. Many high-achieving employees stay at Vanderbilt because of the professional growth they experience and because of their appreciation of Vanderbilt’s benefits, public events and discussions, athletic opportunities, beautiful setting and, above all, sense of community and purpose. Vanderbilt and its employees share a set of mutual expectations that have been created with productivity, legality, fairness and safety always in mind. We believe that our investment in training and compensating employees multiplies in value when we enable individuals to deliver their best performance for the benefit of us all.
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