Patient Care Technician - La Crosse, United States - Cielo Talent

    Default job background
    Full time
    Description
    The Role:
    • We are looking for a Patient Care Technician to join our team. The Patient Care Technician is responsible for maintaining high standards for decontamination assembly, inspecting, wrapping, and sterilization of surgical instruments and medical equipment for Surgical Services and all Ancillary departments.
    • This includes working in conjunction with the OR staff to provide timely sterile products, trays, and case carts where applicable. The Central Service / Processing Technician maintains consistency and continuous workflow between the OR and Central Processing while practicing excellent customer service.

    Responsibilities:
    • Work effectively in the decontamination area.
    • Maintain quality control by monitoring, reading, documenting, and interpreting, all parameters for all types of sterilizers to ensure proper function. (Steam, ETO, Glutaraldehyde, and Steris).
    • Maintain system and department competencies by attending department meetings, in-services, and annual updates.
    • Maintain quality assurance by correctly utilizing biological monitoring applicable sterilization events.
    • Demonstrate accountability by providing high-quality customer service, through communication and service to the surgical staff and peers.
    • Inspect all instruments and reusable items visually and manually.
    • Isolate all items needing repair.