We’re seeking an Operating Room Technician to join our team of compassionate caregivers. Our 25-bed critical access hospital allows our compassionate caregivers to provide excellent patient care in an environment that supports them in their professional growth and development with the latest technologies. Cibola General Hospital is one hour from Albuquerque and close to Santa Fe. Known for its mild year-round climate and outdoor activities, Grants NM offers low property taxes and inexpensive housing costs.
Cibola General Hospital provides services in general surgery, 24-hour Emergency care, Intensive Care, Internal Medicine, Obstetrics, Pathology, Pediatric Dentistry, Podiatry, Primary Care and Radiology with X-ray, CT, MRI. We have three operating rooms including a room for scopes. Clinics, Lab services, Pharmacy, Cardiopulmonary, and Rehab, and skilled care beds are provided.

JOB SUMMARY:

Assists the surgical team during basic operating procedures. Arranges and inventories sterile setup of operations, and passes items as needed to the operating team. Assists in the preparation and moving of patients, and in the cleanup of the operating theater. May prepare operative Specimens for analysis.
Reports To: Director, Surgical Services

EDUCATION/LICENSURE REQUIREMENTS:

• Current certification in CPR.
• Must be able to assume on-call duty position with an outside timeframe of fifteen minutes from the hospital.
• Must be able to demonstrate a level of maturity commensurate with the demands of the operating room climate.
• Demonstrates the ability to withstand the increased level of stress imposed by the operating room environment.
• Completion of operating room technician course desired.
• Good interpersonal skills.
• Certification as a Certified Surgical Technologist is desirable, but not required.

A. Performs OR duties using proper surgical aseptic techniques.

• Prepares the sterile field according to the doctor’s preference cards.
• Observes all rules of aseptic technique and immediately denotes any break in this system.
• Demonstrates proper method of surgical hand scrub, gowning, and gloving technique.
• Properly gowns and gloves other members of the surgical team.
• Assists in proper draping of the patient.
• Assists the surgeon during surgery by passing instruments and other equipment in a prescribed manner.
• Takes part in sponge, needle and instrument counts as needed, before, during and after the procedure to insure that no foreign material is left in the wound.
• Properly identifies and preserves specimens received during surgery.
• Makes sure patient’s skin is free of blood and other solutions before placing final dressing as directed by the surgeon.
• Protects drains and packings from dislodgement.
• Removes drapes in the prescribed manner.
• Disposes of sharps, needles and solutions in the prescribed manner.
• Disposes of trash/linen in the proper receptacles.
• Assists in the transfer of the patient to the stretcher.
• Washes instruments in preparation for sterilization.
• Uses universal precautions for all patients.

B. Functions While Not Scrubbed:

• Damps dusts furniture before first case of the day. Central Supply: Performs daily test (Bowie Dick Test) to test whether air is effectively being eliminated from the chamber of the pre-vacuum autoclaves.
• Opens sterile supplies before and during case.
• Can function as a circulator if two circulators are needed under the direct supervision of the RN.
• Uses the flash autoclave to process items that are dropped or other items needed for the case.
• Ties gowns of scrubbed personnel.
• Adjusts surgical lights.