Surgical Assistant

2 days ago

Hillsboro, United States Disability Solutions Full time
Job Summary:
As a Surgical Assistant at Disability Solutions, you will play a vital role in providing assistance to the surgical team during the intra-operative phase of surgical care. You will work in collaboration with the surgeon and healthcare team to perform surgical procedures, including assessment, planning, directing, providing, and evaluating advanced nursing care. This position requires a high level of technical skill and knowledge of surgical procedures, as well as excellent communication and teamwork skills.
Essential Responsibilities:
  • Representative Functions or Duties: Practice standards of performance: Pre-operative. Performs pre-operative assessment and evaluation. Collaborates with the surgical team on plan of care. Intra-operative: Provides knowledge-based technical assistance to the surgeon during the operative procedure according to AORN standards, licensure, state regulation, and facility/practice protocols, including: Using instruments and medical devices. Providing surgical exposure. Handling and/or cutting tissue. Providing hemostasis, clamp, cut, and ligate tissue as directed by the surgeon. Suturing as directed by the surgeon. Post-Operative. Evaluates the patient post-operatively according to facility protocols.
  • Assessment Standard of Performance & Planning: Communicates information so that continuity of care is maintained. Communicates with patient, family, and other staff in a professional and courteous manner. Obtains and demonstrates the skills and knowledge needed to provide appropriate population-based and culturally sensitive care to patients and families through education, training, and experience. Provides continuous reassessment through the intra-operative period. Utilizes knowledge of type of procedure to plan for appropriate set up.
  • Practice standards of performance: Function as an assistant in all surgical specialties at the direction of the attending surgeon. Performs RNFA responsibilities in accordance with the Nurse Practice Act of the State of Oregon, institutional policies and procedures of Kaiser Permanente, and the AORN Position Statement on RN First Assistants. Practice within limitations of preparation and experience. Demonstrate RNFA-specific clinical skills. Review and update skills checklist on an ongoing basis as specified by policies of Kaiser Permanente. Intra-operative nursing behaviors include: handling tissue, providing exposure, using instruments, clamp, cut, and ligate as directed by the surgeon, providing hemostasis, suturing as directed by the surgeon. Assists with room preparation in collaboration with the Circulating Nurse and scrub person. Brings patient X-rays into room NOTE: Notifies Charge Nurse or designee if films are not available. Assists in patient transport to the operating room and patient transfer to the operating room table. Provides assistance to Anesthesia during induction. Participates in pre-op briefing time out process. Assists in patient position. Assists in patient preparation, i.e., prepping, catheterization, shaving, as necessary. Assists in patient draping. Sets up ESU, lights, suction for the sterile field. Monitors free-counted items on the sterile field. Observes for breaks in sterile technique and takes appropriate action as necessary.
  • Assists with instrumentation and equipment as requested. Applies dressings and secures drainage tubes. Assists with patient transfer and positioning post-operatively. Assists with room tear down and turn over in collaboration with the Circulating Nurse and scrub person. May perform pre and post-operative patient education as designated. Review chart for pertinent data. Assist in maintaining a safe environment and promoting efficiency in surgical procedures.
Basic Qualifications:
  • Experience: Minimum two (2) years of peri-operative scrubbing and circulating experience in a KP OR or one (1) year experience as an RNFA in or outside of KP.
  • Education: Certification of Completion from AORN recognized RNFA course.
  • Successful completion of an RNFA program that meets the AORN Recommended Education Standards for RNFA and criteria for the CB.PMN acceptance program.
  • License, Certification, Registration: Registered Nurse License (Oregon)
  • Nurse Operating Room Certificate
  • Basic Life Support
Additional Requirements:
  • Meets all qualification of an RNFA as outlined in AORN Position Statement.
  • Must maintain CNOR and RN licensure with the required amount of Continuing Education.
Preferred Qualifications:
  • Minimum two (2) years of practice as an RNFA.
  • CRNFA certification preferred.
  • Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) required upon hire/transfer preferred.

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