Ortho Technician in Fayetteville, North Carolina

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CasePro is a Federal Contracting Employer that provides medical services to the United States Army. We currently have a full-time opening for an Ortho Technician to join our staff at Womack Army Medical Center - Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
The Ortho Technician will be working in the Ortho/Podiatry Clinic, Monday through Friday, 7:30am - 4:30pm. Currently, there is no call, weekend or holiday shifts scheduled for the position.
 
SPECIFIC TASKS FOR THE POSITION:
* The quality of Medical Technician (Ortho/Podiatry) service shall meet or exceed reasonable standards of professional practice as determined by the same authority that governs military Medical Technician (Ortho/Podiatry) service professionals in the same discipline.
 
* Performs technical work of medical nature subordinate to orthopedic surgeon, physicians and therapists in the Orthopedic Services, which provides inpatient and outpatient orthopedic care to beneficiaries. Functions of the service include the examination, diagnosis, and treatment of injuries and deformities of skeletal. Provides appropriate health care to all age groups (i.e., infants, children, adults, geriatrics) served by the Department of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation.
* Assists the surgeon in performing C-Arm procedures by preparing and administering IV medications under physician supervision. Positions patient and c-arm fluoroscopy unit before and during minor surgery.
* Operates the Image Intensifier and applies casts and splints ensuring sterile procedures are followed.
* Conducts physical housekeeping functions required after invasive surgical procedures, which leave blood and body fluids in operative field and required after dressing changes of potentially contaminated wounds. Ensures work area is cleaned and/or coordinates and obtains personnel to clean work area.
* Disposes of contaminated supplies and equipment and ensures work area is cleaned and/or coordinates and obtains the appropriate personnel to clean the area.
* Performs a wide variety of casting procedures using plaster and synthetic materials. Patients are frequently critically ill, unconscious or uncooperative. Carefully tailors devices to avoid pressure sores, alignment, nerve injuries or similar problems.
 
* Fabricates and applies plaster splints, plaster casts including upper and lower extremity, neck and back casts, halo-pelvic casts, Risser and Cottrell jackets, hinged brace-casts, patellar and supracondylar cast, and ambulatory traction devices.
 
* Uses thermoplastic material for some types of splinting and fracture-bracing, as well as applies elastic plaster techniques in immediate post-surgical prosthetic fitting. Constructs plaster casts of limbs for use in manufacture of various types of braces.
 
* Applies cast and splints in an operating room setting, observing prescribed sterile techniques. Conducts daily visits to all inpatients in traction devices, carrying out requests of responsible surgeon or nursing service personnel, and advises both the physician and nurses of potential problems, possible advantageous changes in traction or other aspects of care which might benefit the patient.
* Maintains supplies, equipment, and instruments and conducts inventory and restocks sterile surgical supplies for the treatment room. Obtains and prepares supplies and equipment. Prepares lists of and procures supplies to include plaster, linen, surgical equipment, medications, splinting equipment, machinery (i.e., cast saws, heat guns, etc.). Prepares and maintains ledgers of treatment data.
 
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