City/State:
White Plains, New York
Department:
WPH Labor and Delivery_2
Work Shift:
Night
Work Days:
MON-FRI, ALTERNATING WEEKENDS AND HOLIDAYS
Scheduled Hours:
6 PM-6:30 AM
Hours Per Pay Period:
75
Pay Rate/Range:
$37.6032-$56.4048
For positions that have only a rate listed, the displayed rate is the hiring rate but could be subject to change based on shift differential, experience, education or other relevant factors.
Job Summary
Under the direction of the Nurse Manager, Assistant Nurse Manager or Registered Professional Nurse, the OB Scrub Technician handles the instruments, supplies and equipment necessary during surgical procedures. The technician has an understanding of the procedure being performed and anticipates the needs of the surgeons. The OB Scrub Technician has the necessary knowledge and ability to ensure quality patient care during operative procedures and is constantly vigilant for maintaining sterile technique.
Essential Functions
- Understands and adheres to the WPH Performance Standards and Behaviors.
- Essential functions and responsibilities as per New York Public Health Law 2824 – Surgical technology and surgical technologists, Checks supplies and equipment prior to surgical procedure.
- Scrubs, sets up, counts and assists intra-operatively.
- Maintains the highest standard of sterile technique.
- Collects and labels cord gases at deliveries.
- Assists surgeon and RN with post-procedure care.
- Handles specimens appropriately.
- Prepares instruments for decontamination.
- Assists with preparing/picking OR cases.
- Follows WPH policies and procedures for Infection Control and Fire Code.
- Identifies malfunctioning equipment appropriately.
- Follows patient safety standards.
- Responds appropriately in emergency situations.
- Completes competency requirements.
- Attend all mandatory in-services.
- Utilizes cost containment practices. Completes 15 hours of Continuing Education Credits as required by New
- Completes 15 hours of continuing education credits as required by York State Law (Effective January 1, 2015). The act shall take place on the first day of the eighteenth month after it becomes law (July 1, 2016).
- Performs all other related duties as assigned
Qualifications
- High School HS/GED Required and
- Graduate from a CAAHEP- or ABHES- accredited program and holds and maintains CST certification (“has successfully completed a nationally accredited educational program for surgical technologists and holds and maintains a Certified Surgical Technologist credential administered by a nationally accredited surgical technologist credentialing organization”); program; or
- Completed a military surgical technology program; or
- Is grandfathered. A person may be grandfathered by providing evidence that he or she was employed as a surgical technologist in a healthcare facility for a cumulative period of one year, occurring within the four years immediately prior to the effective date of this section. (The effective date is 18 months after it becomes law.) Any employer of persons performing surgical technology on the effective date of this section shall confirm in writing his or her employment in a capacity performing surgical technology in a healthcare facility as of the effective date of this section; or
- Is in the service of the federal government, to the extent the person is performing duties related to that service.
- Prior experience as a Surgical Technologist is preferred
- Certified Surgical Technologist - National Board of Surgical Technology and Surgical Assisting Certification by a nationally accredited surgical technologist credentialing organization (i.e., Certified Surgical Technologist-CST). Required
BLS Basic Life Support - American Heart Association Required
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White Plains Hospital Medical Center is an equal employment opportunity employer. White Plains Hospital Medical Center will recruit, hire, train, transfer, promote, layoff and discharge associates in all job classifications without regard to their race, color, religion, creed, national origin, alienage or citizenship status, age, gender, actual or presumed disability, history of disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic predisposition or carrier status, pregnancy, military status, marital status, or partnership status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
