Sterile Processing Specialist
3 weeks ago
The Sterile Processing Technician plays a vital role in ensuring the highest quality and safety standards are met in the operating room. This individual must be skilled in following protocols with a high level of attention to detail, receiving and processing incoming supplies and equipment, and performing cleaning and sterilizing duties. The Sterile Processing Technician is responsible for handling, properly processing, and storing crucial medical instruments, as well as monitoring sterilizer equipment for adherence to performance specifications.
Key Responsibilities:- Collects, receives, cleans, disinfects, and decontaminates instruments, supplies, and equipment according to hospital policies and procedures, AORN recommendations, AAMI guidelines, and TJC requirements.
- Prioritizes workload according to the needs of the operating room and hospital units.
- Collects dirty instruments and equipment from departments throughout the hospital.
- Receives dirty instruments and scans bar code and equipment from the operating room.
- Disassembles and inspects instruments and selects appropriate cleaning tools and detergents to manually decontaminate instruments and equipment.
- Restocks surgical implantables as appropriate.
- Operates washer-decontaminator, cart washer, and ultrasonic cleaner to mechanically decontaminate instruments and equipment.
- Inspects surgical instruments and medical equipment and detects need for repair or replacement and inspects for cleanliness, assembles, wraps, or containerizes instruments and equipment.
- Unloads Washer and scans bar codes on surgical trays.
- Inspects instruments and equipment to ensure in proper working order and for cleanliness.
- Scans bar code to Select appropriate count sheet for tray and ensures each instrument is accounted for.
- Selects appropriate chemical indicator for inside and outside of package based on mode of sterilization.
- Selects appropriate wrapping method or container.
- Assesses problems with trays and contacts O.R. resource staff and supply coordinator as needed for resolution.
- Avails him/herself to Operating Room to locate trays and to facilitate turnover of surgical trays.
- Communicates with Operating room staff and core techs in prioritizing work load according to the needs of the operating room schedule.
- Sterilizes instruments, equipment, and supplies as required; handles and stores instruments, equipment, and supplies appropriately.
- Selects mode of sterilization for instruments and equipment.
- Loads and unloads sterilizer and documents accordingly.
- Selects biological indicator test pack if necessary for implantables on load.
- Operates steam, gas plasma, and peracetic acid sterilizers.
- Handles, scans bar code, and stores sterilized items in predetermined locations for future use.
- Distributes supplies and equipment to hospital units in a timely fashion.
- Scans bar code and delivers sterile supplies, instruments, and instrument trays to units throughout the hospital.
- Scans bar codes delivers equipment such as hyperthermia units, difficult urinary cart, isolation carts, portable suction units, central line carts, thoracotomy carts, and emergency carts throughout the hospital.
- Responds to phone calls from departments for urgent need for instruments, trays, or equipment.
- Monitors sterilizers and equipment mechanically, biologically, and chemically in accordance with quality assurance standards and performance improvement standards.
- Inspects sterilizer before use by checking for proper operating order by checking power supply, emptying drains, cleaning, and adding register tape as needed.
- Notifies Biomedical department in the event of sterilizer or equipment malfunction and notifies CS/SPD and OR manager.
- Performs daily biological and diagnostic tests and documents appropriately, factually, and legibly.
- Activates Recall procedure in the event of positive biological indicator.
- Selects appropriate chemical indicators internally and externally according to mode of sterilization and documents results.
- Operates, maintains, and troubleshoots 3M auto reader equipment to incubate biological indicators.
- High school diploma or equivalent.
- Graduate of an accredited sterile processing/central service curriculum.
- Basic Life Support certification.
- Certified Central Service Technician or Certified Sterile Processing and Distribution Technician.
- 400 hours of previous sterile processing experience.
- Ability to retain knowledge of identification and necessary handling requirements of surgical instruments, medical supplies, and equipment.
- Ability to understand, speak, and write English fluently to communicate with nursing, technical, and medical staff.
- Basic computer skills.
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