Sterile Processing Technician

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  Sterile Processing Technicians provide hospital, clinic and affiliated facilities with processed materials and equipment. They ensure they are providing a quality product for patient care by executing established procedures for decontamination, assembly, packaging, and sterilization. Perform routine inventory checks, restock supplies, and maintain stock rotation for surgical services. Sterile Processing Technicians work toward the goals of the Cuyuna Regional Medical Center.
  
  

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  Education and Experience:
  
  
  
  
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    Prefer previous sterile processing experience or completion of a sterile processing technician course.
    
    
  
  
  
  
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  Special Skills and Aptitudes:
  
  
  
  
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    • Ability to organize, systematize, and prioritize multiple tasks.
    • Effective interpersonal relation skills, observation, and reporting skills.
    • Application of infection prevention and control principle to daily work.
    • Understanding of medical terminology.
    • Ability to properly operate all equipment and software required for this position.
    • Exercise good judgement, flexibility, creativity, and insight to problem solving.
    • Adjust to stressful situations with confidence and good judgment.
    • Meticulous attention to detail.
    
    
    
    
  
  
  
  

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  1. Must demonstrate current knowledge of aseptic technique within he sterilization process and decontamination standards/techniques.
  2. Demonstrate appropriate decontamination disinfection and sterilization methods for type specific instrumentation.
  3. Document appropriate information as related to process steps, charges, signing out equipment, quality management data, quality control checks, infection control, inventories, and requisitions.
  4. Perform daily maintenance of stocking shelves and inventory.
  5. Collect hospital department and clinic instrumentation for reprocessing. Deliver reprocessed instruments to hospital departments and clinics.
  6. Use tracking software to anticipate need for appropriate instruments for daily and upcoming cases.
  7. Provides just in time sterilization for instruments as needed.
  8. Maintain instruments in good repair, identify broken or instrumentation in need of repair.
  9. Provide instruments for add on cases and unanticipated needs.
  10. Demonstrate Standards of Excellence when other duties are assigned.
  
  
  
  

Why Cuyuna Regional Medical Center? CRMC provides the highest quality patient care by hiring exceptional, qualified individuals and providing opportunities for growth and advancement. We are more than 1,000 employees working in a unique environment that brings together the best in patient care and innovative medical specialties. From our expansive surgery suites with leading edge technology to our resort inspired senior living spaces, from trauma to routine, obstetrics to hospice, we provide services across the continuum of care - all in Minnesota's beautiful Brainerd lakes country. For more information about our medical campus visit: http://www.cuyunamed.org.

We offer a competitive compensation package, which includes exceptional benefits.

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Site Description: Crosby a city of 3,000 residents is part of the Brainerd and Cuyuna Lakes Area in central Minnesota. It is a top 5 destination in the United States for mountain biking. Crosby is just 15 miles from Brainerd, MN and a two-hour drive from Minneapolis/St. Paul. The Brainerd Regional Airport, which is serviced daily by Delta Airlines, is located 11 miles from Crosby. CRMC is located within a two-hour radius of Alexandria, Duluth, and St. Cloud.