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JOB SUMMARY:
Responsible for the decontamination, inspection, assembly, packaging, sterilization, storage, and distribution of operating instrumentation. Incumbents will adhere to all departmental policies and procedures to ensure that instrumentation is available for surgical procedures in a timely manner.
EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE:
High School diploma or GED equivalent.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
- Operates all department machinery and promptly reports issues to the Instrument Processing Supervisor or Lead Instrument Technician.
- Performs manual and/or automated decontamination of instruments.
- Inspects instruments to ensure cleanliness and proper functionality.
- Assembles instruments into containers according to count sheets.
- Packages instruments according to manufacturer's instructions.
- Performs sterilization and verifies adequacy of the sterilization process.
- Maintains documentation of sterilization processes.
- Stores sterile containers in identified location.
- Assembles case carts according to the picklist and deliver to the OR.
- Participates in the department's weekday surge plan and weekend call.
- Assists other team members as needed.
- Protects self, coworkers, and facility by following policies and procedures concerning the prevention of spreading blood borne and or airborne contaminates/diseases.
SKILLS/QUALIFICATIONS: - Ability to operate equipment such as the steam sterilizer, low temperature sterilizers, ultrasonic washers, and washer decontaminators
- Proficient in Microsoft Office
- Proficient communication skills
- Knowledge of instrument tracking software
WORK ENVIRONMENT: - Exposure to hazards associated with bodily fluids and tissue
- Regular exposure to the risk of blood borne diseases
- Exposure to chemical agents used in cleaning
- Exposure to hazards of steam and heat, may be subject to burns
- Loud stressful environment due to equipment and high demands
- Subject to varying and unpredictable situations
- Subject to many interruptions
- Occasional pressure due to multiple calls and inquiries
- Exposure to sharp instruments that may result in cuts or abrasions
About Us Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is a pre-eminent academic health system based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is part of Advocate Health, which is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, and is the fifth-largest nonprofit health system in the United States, created from the combination of Atrium Health and Advocate Aurora Health. Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist's two main components are an integrated clinical system - anchored by Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, an 885-bed tertiary-care hospital in Winston-Salem - that includes Brenner Children's Hospital, five community hospitals, more than 300 primary and specialty care locations and more than 2,700 physicians; and Wake Forest School of Medicine, the academic core of Atrium Health Enterprise and a recognized leader in experiential medical education and groundbreaking research that includes Wake Forest Innovations, a commercialization enterprise focused on advancing health care through new medical technologies and biomedical discovery.
Wake Forest Baptist Health, Wake Forest University School of Medicine and Atrium Health have joined forces in a strategic combination that will enhance care, transform medical education and create economic opportunity for countless lives in North Carolina and beyond. As a part of that combination, the two health systems will be integrating technology and platforms, including our career sites.
This means that although you are applying on the Wake Forest Baptist Health Career Site, you receive communications from the Atrium Health Recruitment Team. Please know that this is an expected process, and thanks in advance for your flexibility.
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