Job Description
Full Time (80 hours/biweekly) Shift: Days (Monday - Friday) No Weekends and No Holidays General Summary Maintains recommended standards for set assembly, decontamination, inspection, containerizing and sterilization of surgical instruments. Performs sterilization, assembly and storage of medical supplies and equipment. Collaborates with the Perioperative Nursing staff to provide sterile instrument sets, equipment and case carts in an accurate and timely manner. May be assigned service-specific technical responsibilities, including collaborating with supervisor and Operating Room service line RN Coordinators to provide resources and services for service specific instrumentation, supplies and equipment. Assists in maintaining consistent and continuous workflow, providing superior customer service. Essential Functions: Maintains instruments for service-specific specialties; collaborates with the CSP Supervisor and the O.R Service Line RN Coordinators (e.g., Open Heart, Neuro, Ortho, Thoracic, Vascular, GYN, GU, ENT, Eye, Dental, General, etc.) Communicates with materiels management via the Central Sterile Processing management team for procurement of instrumentation specific to assigned service. Coordinates with supervisor in order to maintain instrument sharpening/repair schedule for assigned service line instrumentation. Decontaminates instruments, supplies and equipment according to established policies and procedures. Cleans, assembles, wraps, containerizes, sterilizes and stores supplies and instrument trays. Sterilizes instruments, equipment and supplies as required; handles and stores instruments, equipment and supplies appropriately. Performs biological and chemical monitoring in accordance with quality assurance standards. Reviews the daily surgical