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Medical Instrument Technician (Anesthesia)
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 56 days ago
On-site San Antonio, TX $63K – $81K Apply by Aug 14, 2026 Medical Instrument Technician ENFJENFPESFJISFJ Customer SuccessTrades
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This position is located in the Anesthesiology Service, Audie L Murphy VAMC, San Antonio, TX. The Medical Instruments Technician will fulfill all of the duties associated with providing Anesthesia technical support including maintaining equipment, patient care responsibilities, annual/continuous training, administrative responsibilities, and provides a high level of customer service in the ORs & designated areas of responsibility within the service's broad and diverse customer population.
What You'll Do
- →Total Rewards of a Allied Health Professional Major Duties: Assists Anesthesia staff as needed with connecting and operating noninvasive hemodynamic monitoring equipment, blood and fluid warmers as well as patient warming devices.
- →Assists Anesthesia staff as needed with connecting and operating invasive hemodynamic monitoring equipment (arterial pressure monitors), Anesthesia Machines, ventilators, intubation bronchoscopes, and ultrasonic scanning devices, etc.
- →Performs clinical laboratory tests for the operating rooms and the entire hospital, as needed.
- →Properly disposes of all non-sterile equipment used in procedures and properly stores medications and sterile equipment within the Anesthesia lab and storage area.
- →Serves as a circulating technician for supplies and assists with documentation of hemodynamic patient data.
- →Provides assistance to residents in the SICU with Blood Gas, monitor set-up, calibrations and invasive line placements.
- →Participates in the application of safety and infection control processes and adheres to all facility Bio Med and Sterile Processing and Decontamination requirements and regulations.
- →Maintains and utilizes anesthesiology supplies and equipment appropriate to less complex anesthetic procedures, such as those found in Ambulatory Surgery.
- →Maintains Anesthesia supplies, medications, and equipment appropriate to more difficult anesthetic procedures such as those found in inpatient settings with more acutely ill patients.
- →Troubleshoots equipment, often while the patient is anesthetized and utilizes invasive patient monitoring equipment specific to anesthesiology.
- →Performs basic use of electrocardiography (EKG) equipment and correctly uses non invasive patient monitoring equipment specific to anesthesiology and identifies and understands wave forms including recognizing and distinguishing normal from abnormal, artifact from abnormality, and forewarn the physician or anesthetist of an impending life-threatening situation.
- →Uses electronics and Anesthesia equipment with skill in repairing and maintaining this equipment and repairing complex problems.
- →Assists with Anesthetic procedures in the ORs at Audie L Murphy VAMC and designated Units throughout the facility assisting in procedures such as regional anesthesia, (Epidural and Spinal), laryngeal mask airways, and monitor anesthesia while using knowledge of human anatomy and physiology.
- →(Specific cardiac and pulmonary).
Requirements
- ✓You must be a U.S.
- ✓Citizen to apply for this job.
- ✓All applicants tentatively selected for VA employment in a testing designated position are subject to urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment.
- ✓Applicants who refuse to be tested will be denied employment with VA.
- ✓Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959.
- ✓Must be proficient in written and spoken English.
- ✓Subject to background/security investigation.
- ✓Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process.
- ✓Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements (https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents).
- ✓Effective May 7, 2025, driver's licenses or state-issued identification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.
- ✓Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP).
- ✓Complete all application requirements detailed in the "Required Documents" section of this announcement.
- ✓As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a 1 or 2-year trial period during which we will evaluate your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest.
- ✓In determining if your employment advances the public interest, we may consider: your performance and conduct; the needs and interests of the agency; whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the Government; and whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 78477910-375b-460f-9436-95a2b063b138
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