Transplant Application Scientist - Remote

JOB QUALIFICATIONS:

• Education: High school graduate or equivalent or graduate of a Certified Operating Room Technical program.
  
• Personal job-related skills: Knowledge of surgical scrub duties preferred. Ability to comprehend and follow written and verbal instructions.
  
• Licensure, registry or certification: Certification as an Operating Room Technician preferred
  
• Prior Work Experience: Operating Room experience preferred.
  
• Technical Training: Operating Room Technician program desired.
  

• Assists in helping the surgeon accomplish a plan of care for the patient.
  
• Performs delegated duties as a scrubbed member of the nursing team, including preparing the room, supplies and equipment for the patient, assisting in preparing the preoperative site and draping the patient according to established procedure to provide an ample sterile field.
  
• Carries out nursing activities required during operations pertaining to handling of instruments, sponges, sutures, catheters, drains and dressings in such a manner as to ensure medical and surgical asepsis and safety to the patient.
  
• Assists in cleanup of room between cases and at the end of the schedule, including bagging of soiled linens, disposing of soiled gloves and debris, transporting soiled instruments and salvaged supplies to the workroom and washing of buckets.
  
• Assists in cleaning of entire OR and PACU area to include, wiping down all surfaces, changing linen, mopping floor, and cleaning patient restroom.
  
• Cleans instruments and wraps or packages for sterilization, while using knowledge of sterilization to sterilize instruments.
  
• Sterilizes and disinfects instruments in Surgery, ER, RHC, Goldthwaite Clinic, and Hico Clinic.