Technologist-Surgical

Company: Ascension, A43
Location: Binghamton
Posted on: February 8, 2020

Job Description:

We Are Hiring

Technologist-Surgical - LDRPN Unit 001 - Full-Time, Day - Our Lady of Lourdes Memorial Hospital - Binghamton, NY

Sign on Bonus!

Full time, 72 hours bi-weekly, day shift position with Labor and Delivery.

As our Surgical Technologist, you are a crucial part of the operating team. You will work alongside surgeons and nurses in the operating room ensuring that the patient is prepared for surgery and each piece of equipment is sterilized and working perfectly.

Why Join Ascension?

Working for Ascension is more than just a job. It's a career where your talent and passion for delivery quality healthcare can make a difference for patients, team members, and the community.

Lourdes, based in Binghamton, New York, is dedicated to spiritually centered, holistic care which sustains and improves the health of individuals and communities. The main hospital campus includes medical, surgical and specialty nursing units, an Ambulatory Care Center, Breast Care Center, a Regional Cancer Center and numerous specialty practices. Reaching beyond the main hospital campus, Lourdes has established a network of primary care providers at 12 convenient sites throughout the region; and the Lourdes at Home and Hospice programs which care for patients in their homes and various nursing facilities. Two mobile mammography vans, a dental van and a medical services van deliver health services out into the region, making health care more easily accessible to surrounding communities.

Lourdes is part of Ascension, a faith-based healthcare organization dedicated to transformation through innovation across the continuum of care. As one of the leading non-profit and Catholic health systems in the U.S., Ascension is committed to delivering compassionate, personalized care to all, especially to those most in need. In FY2018, Ascension provided nearly $2 billion in care of persons living in poverty and other community benefit programs.

What You Will Do

As an Associate with Our Lady of Lourdes Memorial Hospital-N, you will have the opportunity to facilitate the safe and efficient performance of surgical procedures.

Responsibilities:

--- Prepares surgical operating suite with sterile and non-sterile instruments and supplies.
--- Hands required and requested instruments and supplies to surgeon during surgery.
--- Assists with preparing, transporting, positioning and draping patients.
--- Maintains instruments in an organized manner and monitors and tracks instruments counts throughout procedures.
--- Assists surgeons provision of hemostasis during surgery.

What You Will Need

Licenses/Certifications/Registration:

--- Required Credential(s):
- Practical/Vocational Nurse credentialed from the New York Board of Nursing obtained prior to hire date or job transfer date.

Education:

--- Diploma
- High school diploma/GED with 2 years of experience, or Associate's degree, or Technical degree required

Equal Employment Opportunity

As an equal opportunity employer, Our Lady of Lourdes Memorial Hospital (Lourdes) complies with all applicable employment laws and regulations. In order to provide equal employment opportunities to all individuals, employment decisions at Lourdes are based on merit, qualifications and abilities.

Lourdes does not discriminate based on race, color, religion, gender, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, national origin, age, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, any other legally protected status or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws.

Lourdes is an EEO/AA employer: M/F/Disabled/Vet.

For further information regarding your EEO rights, click on the following link to the "EEO is the Law" poster:

http://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/pdf/eeopost.pdf

EEO is the Law Poster Supplement http://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/pdf/ofccp_eeo_supplement_final_jrf_qa_508c.pdf
Please note that Ascension will make an offer of employment only to individuals who have applied for a position using our official application. Be on alert for possible fraudulent offers of employment. Ascension will not solicit money or banking information from applicants.

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