- Employs strategies to promote health and a safe environment for the sterile processing staff.
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Safety and Practice
• Practices ethically.
• Employs strategies to promote health and a safe environment for sterile processing staff.
• Maintains professional competence.
• Integrates evidence and research findings into practice.
• Practices in an environmentally safe and healthy manner.
- Set up and operate all equipment used in Sterile Processing arena.
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Communication
• Communicates and collaborates with interdisciplinary team
• Communicates with OR and SPD staff to ensure coordination of supply and instrumentation needs.
• Communicates effectively in all areas of practice.
• Communicates with OR, SPD staff, and Surgeon to ensure coordination of supply and instrumentation for scheduled procedures.
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Education
• Continually reassesses competencies and identifies needs for additional knowledge, skills, personal growth, and integrative learning experiences
• Participates as a preceptor and mentor while providing education / orientation to staff, students, and others.
• Is a resource for unit specific core competencies.
• Assists Clinical Resource Nurse with department orientation goals
• Helps ensure compliance with regulatory agencies in meeting or exceeding Association of Operating Room Nurses (AORN) and Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrument (AAMI) Standards
• Ensures adherence to standardized sterilization procedures
• Ensures readiness and availability of instrumentation and products for scheduled procedures and urgent
• Maintains OR and SPD sterilization records and reviews monthly for compliance
• Reports sterilization data to Infection Control Committee on a quarterly basis
• Collects sterilization usage data and sends report to Surgical Services Leadership on a monthly basis
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Inventory
• Helps maintain OR sterilization records and reviews daily for compliance
• Participates in annual/bi-annual inventory
• Completes Inventory count information of supplies, implants, and instrumentation in SPD
• In collaboration with Surgical Services Leadership, evaluates opportunities for supply standardization and inventory control
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Leadership
• Demonstrates leadership in the professional practice setting and the profession.
• Evaluates staff assignments based on acuity of patient, procedure length, complexity and staff experience.
• Monitors time and attendance in Kronos. Schedules staff in Kronos.
• Cross trains as needed in other functions of surgical services.
• Performs other assigned duties as needed
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• Collaboration
• Cooperates as a member of the perioperative and overall hospital team.
• Participates in quality improvement activities and shared decision making teams.
• Ensures all instruments are loaded and maintained in CensiTrac.
• Collaborates with McFarland Clinic sterile processing staff regarding instrument reprocessing procedures
