Job Description

Job Description

Access Healthcare is seeking a travel Centralized Sterile Technician for a travel job in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

Job Description & Requirements

• Specialty: Centralized Sterile Technician
• Discipline: Allied Health Professional
• Duration: 13 weeks
• 40 hours per week
• Shift: 8 hours
• Employment Type: Travel

General Description:
Under general supervision, responsible for cleaning, decontamination, assembly, packaging and sterilization of surgical instrumentation and reusable supply items.
Coordinates and prepares necessary supplies and instruments for emergent and routine surgical cases.

Essential Responsibilities:
Responsibilities listed in this section are core to the position. Inability to perform these responsibilities with or without an accommodation may result in disqualification from the position.
Assembles and wraps instrument sets.
Ensures proper use of sterilized sonic cleaners and other related equipment.
Retrieves and delivers surgical instruments on a timely basis.
Thoroughly inspects instruments to insure all instruments are clean and in good repair/working order prior to sterilization process.
Decontaminates instruments using proper chemical mixtures and procedure.
Tests, operates and loads autoclaves.
Participates in the routine cleaning and decontamination of all department work surfaces.
Completes sterilization log sheets.
Periodically checks sterile inventory in order to remove those items in which sterilization has expired or packaging has been compromised.
Re-sterilizes compromised instrument sets.
Identifies and notifies appropriate personnel of inventory or supply shortages.
May assist in training new staff.
Performs tasks necessary to prepare and maintain accurate Case Carts.
Pulls needed supplies and instruments for cases.
Coordinates with operating room staff to ensure that proper supplies for each case are delivered as needed.
Maintains optimal levels of patient care surgical supplies and/or equipment.
Practices good inventory control techniques by following FIFO (first in, first out) practice.

General Responsibilities:
Performs other duties as assigned

Access Healthcare Job ID #3-36281850. Pay package is based on 8 hour shifts and 40 hours per week (subject to confirmation) with tax-free stipend amount to be determined.

About Access Healthcare

Access Healthcare aims to provide superior service to our nursing family by providing around the clock support, competitive pay packages and an unmatched benefits package! Unlike other agencies, we offer a true family feel and work with you to find the placement that is right for you. We offer one of the top leading pay packages in the industry and we are ready to get you the money you deserve!

Access Healthcare was founded by two travel nurses, Danielle and Diego, who had a dream and a shared vision of creating an agency which all nurses would want to work with. Our passion has led us to where we are today as one of the top 10 agencies in our home state of New Jersey, with access to contracts in all 50 states! We encourage you to join our team and we cannot wait to get to know you!

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