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OvertureXL provides professional services to healthcare organizations across the country. We provide healthcare professionals with the work-life balance they need to thrive and to reduce and eliminate burnout. Our authorized candidates pick their own shifts, make more money, and can get paid in as little as 24 hours after shift completion approval.
We are seeking experienced Operating Room Surgical Assistants, Surgical Technologists, First Surgical Assistants, and Surgical Technicians to join our team and provide perioperative care to patients undergoing surgery. Robotic surgery experience and expertise is a plus.
In this role, your responsibilities include applying dressings, sterilizing the operation site, inserting tubes and intravenous lines, providing pre- and post-operative care to patients, and completing some clerical work such as record keeping and handling the phones.
To be successful in this role, you should be a good team player, with strong communication and interpersonal skills. You should also demonstrate technical skills and a strong working knowledge of surgical tools and equipment and basic medical tasks.
Position Responsibilities:
- Assisting with patient resuscitation during cardiac arrests or other life-threatening events.
- Covering patients with surgical drapes to ensure and maintain a sterile operating field, removing patients' body hair, and disinfecting the incision site.
- Determining the availability and inspecting sterile and non-sterile surgical equipment, tools, and supplies.
- Adjusting and maintaining the operating room temperature, humidity, and lighting according to the Surgeon's specifications.
- Applying sutures, staples, clips, and drainage systems and clamping, or cauterizing blood vessels to control bleeding.
- Assisting with the positioning of patients' bodies to protect against nerve damage or circulation impairment and assessing the patients' body conditions after surgery.
- Maintaining an unobstructed operating field with surgical retractors, sponges, and suctioning and irrigating equipment.
- Monitoring patients' positions, vital signs, and volume and color of blood during operations.
- Assisting the surgical team with gowning or gloving and passing instruments or supplies to the Surgeon.
- Assisting with the application of dressings, casts, splints, braces, and other devices.
Position Requirements:
- A graduate's degree in surgical assistance with the successful completion of clinical training
- Active Surgical Assistant Certification
- Good manual dexterity and working knowledge of surgical procedures and tasks.
- The ability to work in a stressful environment.
- Physical stamina to work long shifts and move or lift patients and heavy equipment.
- Excellent teamwork and communication skills.
- The ability to remain calm and focused in the operating room.
Job Types: Full-time, Part-time, Contract, Per diem
Pay: $50.00 - $55.00 per hour
Benefits:
- Flexible schedule
- Referral program
Healthcare setting:
Medical specialties:
- Cardiology
- Colorectal Surgery
- Gastroenterology
- Neurology
- Ob/Gyn
- Orthopedics
- Perioperative Care
- Surgery
Schedule:
- 10 hour shift
- 12 hour shift
- 8 hour shift
- Day shift
- Evening shift
- Monday to Friday
- Morning shift
- Night shift
- On call
- Overnight shift
- Rotating shift
- Weekends as needed
License/Certification:
- Surgical Assistant Certification (Required)
Work Location: In person