INSTRUMENT TECH (37829)
Summary
Maintains and sterilizes surgical instruments in a hospital operating room, ensuring availability and safety for procedures.
Primary hours for this position will be 11:30am-8pm
Purpose
The Instrument Tech provides supportive assistance to staff in the operating room by ensuring the cleaning and sterilization of surgical equipment.
General Job Functions
- Counts/inventories instrument sets as delivered to dirty work room.
- Communicates to the scrub when an instrument is missing.
- Cleans surgical instruments according to manufacturers’ guidelines.
- Perform sterilization for implants using AORN/AAMI guidelines.
- Knowledge of what instruments belong in sets.
- Properly packages decontaminated surgical instruments (sets) for sterilization.
- Reports and delivers broken equipment to OR Manager/Director.