Surgical Technologist II

The Surgical Technologist-II works under the direction and supervision of a Registered Nurse or Physician, ensuring safe, quality patient care during operative procedures. This role requires a strong understanding of surgical procedures and the ability to anticipate the needs of the surgeon.

• Participates in surgical procedures as a member of the highly reliable surgical team, passing instruments and supplies as directed.
• Recognizes and responds to acute emergency situations, providing assistance as needed.
• Assists in tissue retraction and limb support, ensuring instruments are clean and working properly.
• Requests additional supplies during surgery if needed, assisting the surgeon while closing, suturing, stapling, cauterizing, and bandaging the patient.
• Conforms to prescribed aseptic techniques, scrubbing prior to working in the sterile field.
• Transports patients and assists with lifting patients for procedures, assembling surgical specialty beds with correct attachments to ensure patient safety.
• Completes necessary arrangements to set up the operating room prior to surgical procedures, laying out instruments, surgical trays, and assembling equipment as required.
• Verifies package integrity and external sterile indicators prior to opening and internal sterile indicators prior to use of supplies and instruments.
• Handles a variety of controlled and non-controlled medications, preparing and labeling medication utilized during surgery.
• Coordinates with vendors, surgeons, and other departments, assisting with ordering of specialty items and equipment recalls.
• Maintains and ensures operational readiness of instruments and equipment, departmental supplies, and sterilized items, checking for outdated supplies and ensuring correct counting of instruments, needles, and/or sharps.
• Operates a variety of equipment as directed, checking for outdated equipment and reporting as needed, ensuring and maintaining competency on all new equipment and technology.
• Maintains sterility of the surgical field by continuous observation of staff and equipment, sterilizing needed instruments with rapid cycle sterilization.
• Contains used sharps on the sterile field in a designated disposable, puncture-resistant needle container and replaces as necessary.
• Prepares and handles patient specimens, assuring proper labeling of patient and all specimens.
• Complies with Standard Precautions (Blood Borne Pathogen standards) and the use of personal protective equipment (PPE).
• Provides guidance throughout the case for physician assistants, medical students, registered nurses, orthopedic technicians, and surgeons on the use of equipment.
• May perform patient care functions such as patient prepping, positioning patient, and holding patient during surgical case, assuring patient safety at all times.
• Maintains specialty carts for each service, testing and calibrating any and all equipment as needed, stocking rooms daily.
• Assists team members with gowning and gloving, helping in a Circulator role and Anesthesia Tech role, assisting Anesthesia with spinals, leads, blood vials, medications, and removal of airway stylet.
• During a code, assists surgeon, RN, and Anesthesia in any way qualified.
• Cleans operating room after surgical procedures by removing and disposing of contaminated instruments, disassembling instruments for sterilization as required.
• Inspects the used surgical setup for sharps, assuring sharps container is not full before discarding disposables.
• Ability to read and understand medical terminology and pathology.
• Assists with orientation, education, and inservices as requested by management and co-workers.
• Required to participate in call and standby.
• Performs other duties as required within the classification.
• Consistently demonstrates the knowledge, skills, abilities, and behaviors necessary to provide superior and culturally sensitive service to each other, to our members, to customers, contracted providers, and vendors.
• Consistently supports compliance and the Principles of Responsibility (Kaiser Permanente Code of Conduct) by maintaining the privacy and confidentiality of information, protecting the assets of the organization, acting with ethics and integrity, reporting non-compliance, and adhering to applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations, accreditation, and licenser requirements (if applicable), and Kaiser Permanente policies and procedures.
• Promotes, ensures, and improves customer service to internal/external customers by demonstrating skills consistent with the organization's philosophy of providing extraordinary customer relations and quality service.
• Accountable for consistently demonstrating service behaviors and principles defined by the Kaiser Permanente Service Quality Credo, the KP Mission, as well as specific departmental/organizational Initiatives.
• Accountable for consistently demonstrating the knowledge, skills, abilities, and behaviors necessary to provide superior and culturally sensitive service to each other, to our members, and to purchasers, contracted providers, and vendors.