Advanced Medical Supply Technician

4 weeks ago

Martinsburg, United States Veterans Health Administration Full time

Summary

The Martinsburg VA Medical Center Sterile Processing Department supports direct patient care by ensuring proper reprocessing, maintenance, and storage of critical and semi-critical reusable medical equipment (RME) throughout the medical center in compliance with nation and local policy and procedure.

Duties

Major Duties: Identifies needs of Surgical Supplies and Reusable Medical Equipment to prepare Surgical Case Carts. All items placed in a cart must be examined for package integrity per VA and AAMI guidelines. Utilizes knowledge of Censitrac tracking system the incumbent: 1)Provides training to staff on the use of Censitrac.
2)Troubleshoots minor IT Issues.
3)Enters/updates surgical set lists in Censitrac to include Item Name, Manufacturer, and quantity.
4) Ensures surgical instruments, trays, and containers have required Censitrac Markings Works with OR Staff, RME Coordinator, and SPS Administrative Officer to ensure needed instruments are ordered and in good repair. Utilizes Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) as required. Responsible for the collection, receipt, inspection, cleaning and decontamination processing of soiled instruments, equipment, and apparatus to include complex diagnostic equipment and medical apparatus. Completely and thoroughly dissembles and positions all parts of complex technical RME to ensure the removal of any debris, surgical soil and bio-burdens prior to sterilization or high level disinfection. Performs required leak tests to endoscopic equipment to determine that the watertight integrity of the scope is intact before initiating the cleaning and high-level disinfection process. Performs multi-step procedures to effectively reprocess endoscopes, . cystoscopes, ureteroscopes, bronchoscopes, colonoscopes, and other various endoscopic instruments. Operates decontamination equipment such as washer decontaminators, ultrasonic washers, automatic endoscope re-rocessors, equipment irrigators, laparoscopic insulation tester, automatic cart wash, and tube dryers, etc. Uses, interprets and records results from quality assurance monitors, . Ruhof ATP Complete ATP tester system, All-Clean washer disinfector validation system, etc. Performs and validates all cleaning of instrumentation and RME through the use of department SOPs, manufacturer's instructions for use guidelines, Medical Center Memorandums, and VA policies and directives, along with industry standards published by organizations such as, Healthcare Central Service Material Management (IAHCSMM), American National Standard/Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (ANSI/AMMI), Association of peri-Operative Registered Nurses (AORN), Centers for Disease Control (CDC), etc. Reads and understands Material Data Safety Sheets. Performs inspection, assembly, packaging, and terminal sterilization of all trays, sets, and packs for use throughout the medical center. Determines the criticality category of RME using the Spaulding Classification System and interprets sterilization parameters provided by the manufacturer's instructions for use guidelines to determine the proper method of sterilization. Operates equipment such as Minntech Medivator Advantage Plus, Trophon EPR, Steris Steam Sterilizers, Sterrad 100S, Sterrad 200, and Sterrad NX, heat sealers, tube dryers, and incubators or other sterilization, high level decontamination and packaging equipment. Interprets gauge readings and mechanical printouts on sterilization equipment to validate that sterilization of RME is within acceptable parameters. Interprets printout for Automatic Endoscope Processors used for high level decontamination to ensure that
disinfection has met all parameters. Maintains records for all sterilization procedures that are processed including interpretation of all biological
monitoring, validation of monitoring results, and quality assurance checks to ensure sterilization parameters
are met. After each sterilization cycle is complete, the incumbent reviews print outs to ensure parameters have been met and documents the results of each cycle in the sterilization log. If parameters have not been met, incumbent must troubleshoot the sterilization load to determine the possible cause and report findings to the supervisor/lead technician. Troubleshoot complex sterilizers used in the medical center to ensure optimal operation. Performs high level disinfection using Rapicide PA, or equivalent according to manufacturer's instructions
for use guidelines. Validate that chemicals are tested and meet requirements to ensure that Minimum Effective Concentration (MEC) for the performance of high-level disinfection. Assembles major and minor complex surgical instrument tray/sets with general and intractably complex instrumentation and instrument packs used for a variety of general and specialized medical and surgical procedures. Work Schedule : Mon- Fri 3 pm - 11:30 pm
Telework : Not Available
Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
Functional Statement # : 000000
Fi nancial Disclosure Report: Not required

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