CS Technician I - Non-Certified - Central Sterile - Mercy Medical Center - Cedar Rapids at Mercy Medical Center - Cedar Rapids – Cedar Rapids, Iowa

Other Duties:

• Performs other related job duties as required.
• Tracks progress and compliance to training, staff meeting and in-service education.
• Helps answer questions and assist new hires a CS Aides as necessary.

Environmental Standards:

• Maintains a clean orderly work area.
• Completes assigned housekeeping duties.

Inventory Control:

• Knows and uses the processes involved in ordering, receiving, stocking, rotating delivering and monitoring usage of supplies and instrument tracking in the tracking system.
• Communicates supply issues to appropriate personnel in a timely manner.

Equipment Use:

• Understands, uses, maintains, and operates the equipment specific to the department, i.e. steam, gas plasma and ozone sterilizers; cart washers; washer/disinfectors, ultrasonic cleaners, incubators, AER as well as a variety of testing devices and controls.

Transportation and Storage:

• Properly handles and stores sterile supplies, equipment, and instruments.
• Ensures all standards are being followed when transporting both contaminated and processed reusable medical devices.
• Tracks medical devices to the customer in a timely manner.

Sterilization Process:

• Selects appropriate sterilization methods and parameters.
• Knows and follows correct principles for sterilization. Utilizes Instruction for Use database and instrument tracking system to ensure all devices are properly sterilized.
• Properly document and verify sterilization loads and biological tests to determine the efficacy of the sterilization or disinfection process.

Preparing Instruments:

• Consistently uses count sheets to correctly assemble, protect, wrap containerize and/or peel package and label instruments.
• Identifies and inspects instruments for cleanliness and functionality.
• Provides attention to detail when assembling and inspecting instrumentation. Ensure proper assembly, lubrication, inspection points and substitutions and counts are completed.
• Ensure appropriate instruments are in the sets and reviews Instructions for Use as needed.

Decontamination:

• Identifies and uses appropriate methods and solutions to sort, disassemble, decontaminate, rinse, and disinfect instruments and reusable medical devices.
• Operates and troubleshoots equipment in the department and follows appropriate steps in reporting equipment for repair.
• Appropriately handles garbage, linen, and biohazardous materials.
• Maintains safety standards.