Registered Nurse (RN) – First Assistant – Tiffin Hospital

Mercy Health • Tiffin, OH

2d • Onsite

About The Position

The Registered Nurse First Assistant (RNFA) is responsible for the delivery of patient care utilizing the nursing process through data collection and assessment, identifying and determining the priority of patient's/ resident's/ client's problems/needs, and evaluating the process and outcome of nursing care. The RNFA collaborates with the surgeon in performing invasive or operative procedures in a safe manner with optimal outcomes for the patient whom protective reflexes or self-care abilities are potentially compromised. The RNFA must, in collaboration with the patient, family and health care team members, possess and apply knowledge of the procedure and patient's intraoperative experience throughout the patient's continuum of care, addressing their physiological, psychological, sociocultural and spiritual needs in relationship to their age and ability to respond.

Requirements

• Graduate from accredited School of Nursing
• Current RN license in State of Ohio
• BLS required
• Required to operate various patient care equipment specific to the clinical area.

Nice To Haves

• CRNFA
• Surgery/ OR Experience Preferred
• BSN Preferred

Responsibilities

• Collects health data on a systematic and continuous basis through clinical interaction, records, assessment and consultation with the health care team members, demonstrating consideration of growth and developmental needs.
• Formulates nursing diagnosis based on health status data and establishes patient care goals based on nursing diagnosis.
• Develops a plan of care that prescribes nursing actions to achieve patient goals.
• Implements nursing actions in transferring the patient according to the prescribed plan.
• Demonstrates through clinical interaction with patients, knowledge of patient and family educational needs.
• Demonstrates anatomy and physiology particular to the requirements of the surgical procedure.
• Creates and maintains a sterile field.
• Performs sponge, sharps and instruments counts.
• Administers drugs and solutions as prescribed.
• Monitors and controls the environment.
• Performs decontamination functions.
• Provides equipment and supplies based on the patient's needs and physician's preferences.
• Physiologically monitors the patients during surgery.
• Evaluates patient outcomes and measures effectiveness of nursing care.
• Continuously reassesses all components of patient care based on new data.
• Performs nursing and first assisting actions that demonstrate accountability including performance improvement.
• Enhances growth and development through in-services education, educational process and learning opportunities including, but not limited to pediatrics, adolescents, adult and geriatric patients.
• Under direct supervision of the surgeon, responsibilities may include but not limited to, handling a variety of tissue, providing exposure, using surgical instrumentation, suturing, providing hemostasis, and closing tissue and skin.
• Performs functions under the direct supervision of the physician and/or resident in the operating room.
• Retracts during operating procedure.
• May clamp, cut and tie bleeders.
• May utilize cautery as directed by physician.
• Demonstrates competency and skill when suturing fascia, subcutaneous tissue and skin.
• Suction surgical wound.
• May instill irrigation solution under the direction of the physician.

Benefits

• Competitive pay, incentives, referral bonuses and 403(b) with employer contributions (when eligible)
• Medical, dental, vision, prescription coverage, HAS/FSA options, life insurance, mental health resources and discounts
• Paid time off, parental and FMLA leave, short- and long-term disability, backup care for children and elders
• Tuition assistance, professional development and continuing education support

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree