Responsibilities:

1. Maintains a professional image and exhibits excellent customer relations to patients, visitors, physicians, and co-workers in accordance with our Service Excellence Standards and Core Values.
2. The Surgical Technologist Extern applies principles of asepsis to the surgical hand scrub, preparation and care of supplies, establishing and maintaining a sterile field, and dressing of wounds.
3. The Surgical Technologist Extern manages instruments and supplies for the surgical procedure and assists the operating surgeon.
4. Maintains the sterility of instruments and supplies on the sterile field and immediately reports in breaks in technique..
5. Correlates the case set-up, sutures, drapes, blades, sponges, and instruments needed for the surgical procedure.
6. Organizes sterile supplies systematically and in a timely manner..
7. Performs initial instrument, sharps and sponge counts with the circulator and surgical technologis...