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Description
HCA Florida West Hospital is a 515 bed facility and proud to be the area's leading health care facility in quality outcomes performance. HCA Florida West Hospital is also the area's first Accredited Chest Pain Center and Breast Imaging Center of Excellence. HCA Florida West Hospital is also the first hospital in the state of Florida to have earned Atrial Fibrillation with Electrophysiology Services Accreditation. In addition, HCA Florida West Hospital is an Advanced Primary Stroke Center and offers specialized Emergency Department services tailored specifically to the needs of seniors as well as a Kids' ER dedicated to serving the emergency medical needs of children. The HCA Florida West Hospital campus includes the acute care hospital, the area's only comprehensive, CARF-accredited physical rehabilitation hospital, and a behavioral health facility. Affiliated with HCA, the nation's leading provider of healthcare, HCA Florida West Hospital meets the community's healthcare needs in major services such as cardiology, cardiovascular surgery, oncology, orthopedics, robotic-assisted surgery, critical care, neurology/neurosurgery, emergency care, urology, behavioral health, gastroenterology, obstetrics, pulmonary, and rehabilitative medicine.
Job Summary:
| Under general supervision cleans, sterilizes, and assembles surgical instruments and equipment. |
Essential Functions
| Cleans and decontaminates surgical instruments and equipment using detergents and disinfecting solutions. |
| Wraps, seals and accurately labels items that are to be sterilized. |
| Sterilizes instruments, equipment, linen and related supplies using sterilizers and Sterrad according to manufacturer’s instructions. |
| Prepares surgical sets, instruments, treatment trays according to prescribed procedures ensuring that all instrumentation is correct and accurate. |
| Ensures that all instrument count sheets are kept up to date and accurate. |
| Stores sterilized and prepared supplies and equipment in designated areas or returns to departments upon request or replaces one for one when used. |
| Informs bio-med of equipment no longer service able or other problems that arise. |
| Makes rounds on floors to deliver instruments and available equipment as needed. |
| Ensures that all floors and patient care departments have appropriate patient care equipment, instrument trays and other needed supplies available at all times. |
| Responds to special requests from surgery and all patient care floors in a timely and customer service oriented manner. |
| Actively seeks ways to control costs without compromising patient safety, quality of care, or the services delivered. |
| Demonstrates knowledge of the occurrence reporting system. Uses system to report potential patient safety issues. |
| Uses Performance Improvement Plan to improve patient safety. |
| Other duties as assigned. |
| Education & Experience | ||
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| Training or Surgical Technologist | Preferred |
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| Prior central sterile tech experience | Preferred |
| Licenses & Certifications | ||
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| Sterile Processing Certification | Preferred |
What matters most to our diverse and talented colleagues is giving people the absolute best healthcare in the most compassionate way possible.
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HCA Healthcare
One Park Plaza
Nashville, TN 37203
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