Instructor - Surgical Assisting (Part-time)

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Location: McKinney Campus Primary Location: 2200 W. University Drive, McKinney, Texas, 75071 We are searching for candidates that meet the required qualifications and experience and are able to perform the essential duties and responsibilities. Job Summary: Provide guidance and facilitate skills/competency assessments for Surgical Assisting (CSFA) and Surgical Technology (SRGT) courses including labs, clinical, and independent study. Participate in skills assessment development and review for order of instructional materials and equipment. Required Qualifications: Essential Duties and Responsibilities Train and direct students on local anesthesia injection, incision and dissection, and trocar placement skills. Monitor and assess skill development in Foley catheterization, skin preparation, and/or positioning of the surgical patient and tourniquet placement. Assess and guide student usage of appropriate knowledge of normal pathological anatomy and physiology, recognition, and appropriate response to surgical events. Provide training and direction to students in techniques and skills of intraoperative visualization and assistance of retraction, knot tying, suctioning/irrigation, application of hemostatic agents, electrosurgical unit (ESU) hemostasis; insertion of drains, closure of wound/body planes, and various suture techniques and/skills; splinting and immobilization, placement of post-surgical dressings and wound VACs, etc. Provide training and direction to students in perioperative principles and surgical technology skills, including sterile technique, surgical instrumentation, case preparation, tissue handling, surgical counts, specimen management, electrosurgical equipment, patient positioning, surgical equipment operation, and operating room procedures while ensuring compliance with accreditation standards and best practices. - Assist with monitoring and assessing students during surgical clinical experiences. Review surgical instructional videos and p

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