Community Health Systems Professional Services Corporation·Fort Wayne, Indiana
Provides direct support to surgeons by maintaining the sterile field and assisting with critical tasks such as tissue retraction, bleeding control, and suturing. Collaborates with the surgical team to ensure efficient operative procedures and optimal patient outcomes.
The Surgical Technician First Assist provides direct support to surgeons during surgical procedures, ensuring efficient operative and invasive procedures by maintaining the sterile field, providing necessary instruments and supplies, and assisting in critical surgical tasks. This role requires advanced technical skills to support the surgical team, including positioning patients, retracting tissues, controlling bleeding, suturing, and applying dressings. The Surgical Technician First Assist collaborates with surgeons, nurses, and other surgical team members to ensure optimal patient outcomes and post-operative care.
Essential Functions
Functions as a scrub person during surgical procedures, preparing and organizing sterile supplies and instruments, maintaining an organized sterile field, and providing necessary instruments and supplies to the surgical team.
Performs first assistant duties, including providing exposure through instrument handling, retractors, suctioning, and sponging techniques as directed by the surgeon.
Handles and dissects tissues, clamps blood vessels, coagulates bleeding points, and places drains as instructed by the surgeon.
Assists with wound closure, including suturing subcutaneous layers and skin, applying staples, and dressing surgical sites per surgeon instructions.
Ensures sterility and safety standards, conducting proper counting procedures with the RN circulator, following infection control protocols, and taking corrective actions if needed.
Prepares and transports surgical instruments for decontamination, ensuring proper handling and sterilization for future use.
Assists in post-procedure room turnover, ensuring procedural areas are properly cleaned and prepared for subsequent surgeries.
Performs other duties as assigned.
Maintains regular and reliable attendance.
Complies with all policies and standards.
• 1-3 years of experience as a Surgical Technician or First Assist in an acute care setting required
Requires 1-3 years of experience as a Surgical Technician or First Assist in an acute care setting. Must hold CST and either CSFA or CSA certifications, along with BCLS certification.
Market context
In Indiana, Surgical Technician First Assist roles are typically tied to ongoing surgical volume in hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers, so demand often follows operating room staffing needs. These positions are competitive because employers usually want acute care experience plus CST and CSFA or CSA credentials, along with BCLS. Before applying, compare the AI-summarized requirements and benefits on this platform with the original posting, then confirm your certification status and recent first-assist experience match the role.
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