• CST III

    Medical Center Hospital (Odessa, TX)


    Position Summary:

    The Certified Surgical Technologist/LVN Surgical Technologist and the Surgical Technologist assist in the nursing care and preparation of surgical patients in the Outpatient and Main Operating Room. He/she functions as a member of the sterile team in donning gown and gloves, creating and maintaining a sterile field and issuing instruments to surgeons utilizing AORN standards of care.

    Qualifications:

    A. Education:

     

    Current Surgical Technologist Certification or eligible. Surgical Technologist I and II must obtain CST certification within 6 months of hire or transfer to position. Surgical Technologists who were employed before September 1, 2009 may remain employed as a surgical technologist without meeting the certification requirement.

     

    B. Training and Experience:

    1. Current BLS Certification through the American Heart Association upon hire or transfer to department.

    2. Complete the following competencies within 3 months of hire or transfer to department:

    • Aseptic technique

    • Gowning and gloving

    • Surgical hand scrub

    • Surgical case preparation

    • Sterile case set-up

    • Surgical draping

    • Intraoperative actions

    • Postoperative actions

    3. ST and CST levels are based off of a point system designed in the career ladder.

    4. Basic daVinci Robotic Surgery proficiency-within 1 year for

     

    new hires; within 2 years of signing job description for tenured staff.