Labor & Delivery Tech-Cert (CST)
Company: Northwell Health
Location: New Hyde Park
Posted on: January 27, 2023
Job Description:
Job Description
Job Description
Functions as Scrub Assistant. Sets up tables and prepares room for
obstetric procedures. Ensures sufficient sterile supplies and
instruments on the Unit. Performs transport duties.
Job Responsibility
- * General Responsibilities:
- Functions as a Scrub Assistant under the Supervision of an
RN.
- Sets-up operating room tray, arranging instruments, sponges,
sutures, and dressings.
- Assists surgical team during surgery by passing instruments,
sponges, and dressings.
- Participates as a member of the nursing team.Assists RN's in
the orientation of new staff to scrub position.
- Reports pertinent events during the course of the shift's
activity (i.e., equipment, supplies.)
- Performs as an interdepartmental messenger, as needed
- Answers phones and transports patients by wheelchair and
stretcher.
- Delivery Room Assignments:
- Appropriately utilizes aseptic techniques.Identifies and
observes breaks in aseptic technique and reports to RN.Surgically
scrubs for OBS and GYN procedures.
- Sets-up tables and prepares room for OBS procedures in LDR's
and delivery rooms.
- Prepares patient for delivery in LDR's.
- Cleans instruments and equipment to be returned to CSR for
sterilizing(As needed, wraps and label instruments before
sterilization.) Check all sterile equipment for expiration
dates.
- Ensures sufficient sterile supplies and instruments on the unit
to meet the needs of the shift
- Transports stillborn to the morgue, as required.
- Strips patients' beds and prepares beds, stretchers and
delivery tables for new admissions.Make beds stretchers and
delivery tables, as needed by shift.
- * Patient Care Assignments:
- Receives patient report and assignment from RN in
charge.
- Makes rounds on assigned post partum patients.
- Ensures patient's environment is safe and clean.
- Answers call lights for post partum patients, as
necessary.
- Offers oral hygiene to patients, clears overbed tables and
prepares patients for meals.
- Takes temperatures, as directed.
- Prepares patient for transport, when needed.
- For bed bound patients; bed pan, turn and position when
necessary.
- Make rounds to assure all patients are clean and dry.
- Place utensils and supplies in bedside stands, as needed.(i.e.,
discharged patients and transfers.)
- For new admissions; orients patient, assists patient to
undress, obtains specimens, and takes temperature, pulse, resp,
weight and height.
- Assists with examinations and procedures, as
necessary.
- Administers enemas, perform abdominal and perineal shave, as
directed.
- Assists with output measurements.
- Assists patients with personal hygiene; administers
pericare.
- Provides baby care, as needed.
- Identifies and observes changes in patient status and reports
to RN.
- Performs point of care blood glucose testing.
- Provides customer service for patients' families and
visitors.
- * Environmental Responsibilities:
- Stocks labor and Delivery area daily, as directed.
- Supplies admitting rooms with OB Admission Packs and other
needed supplies (monitor paper, belts,speculums, etc.).
- Makes unoccupied beds and stretchers and assures that there is
a pillow for each bed.
- Maintains non-patient areas in neat and orderly
condition.
- Assures rolling equipment is clean.
- Reports missing or damaged equipment.Report shortages to
RNs.
- Defrosts and cleans refrigerators.
- Cleans closet, drawers and equipment.
- Cleans infant transporter after each patient use.
- Performs related duties, as required.
*ADA Essential Functions
Job Qualification
- High School Diploma or equivalent, required. Associate's Degree
in Operating Room Technology, preferred.
- Completion of an accredited Operating Room Technician Training
Program, required.
- Successful completion from a nationally accredited educational
program for surgical technologist, and holds and maintains a
certified surgical technologist (CST) credential administered by
the National Board of Surgical Technology and Surgical Assisting
(NBSTSA), required.*a person may be employed or contracted with to
practice surgical technology during the 12-month period immediately
following successful completion of a surgical technology program,
but may not continue to be employed beyond that period without
documentation that the employee holds and maintains a certified
surgical technologist credential required.
- Must be and remain in good standing with NYS regulations,
required.
*Additional Salary Detail
The salary range and/or hourly rate listed is a good faith
determination of potential base compensation that may be offered to
a successful applicant for this position at the time of this job
advertisement and may be modified in the future.When determining a
team member's base salary and/or rate, several factors may be
considered as applicable (e.g., location, specialty, service line,
years of relevant experience, education, credentials, negotiated
contracts, budget and internal equity).
Keywords: Northwell Health, New York , Labor & Delivery Tech-Cert (CST), Other , New Hyde Park, New York
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