Decontaminates reusable medical supplies and equipment, using appropriate methods.

Disassembles, cleans, sterilizes, and reassembles equipment.

Inspects items for gross contamination after pre-sterilization.

Prepares trays and sets.

Packages items to protect points, cutting edges, and delicate instruments and to ensure effective penetration medium.

Selects appropriate methods for sterilizing.

Loads, unloads, and operates sterilizers and other related equipment.

Periodically tests equipment for effectiveness and absolute sterilization.

Adheres to recommended parameters for each sterilizer and records chemical, mechanical, and biological results and informs supervisor of any positive test results.

Tests, cleans, sterilizes, stores, issues, and explains proper use of equipment.

Inspects sterilized items for indication of proper sterilization, labels items to show sterilization data, stores items to preserve st...