RNFA - SURGERY - FT DAYS

ANDERSON HOSPITAL•Maryville, IL

3d•$40 - $64•Onsite

About The Position

The RNFA practices in collaboration with and at the direction of the surgeon during the intraoperative phase. First-assisting activities may include handling tissue, providing exposure, using instruments, suturing, and providing hemostasis. These activities are refinements of perioperative nursing practice. The RNFA may serve as a scrub or circulator as necessary. The position provides safe, skillful, accurate, and efficient age-appropriate and population-specific patient care. It uses the nursing process to assess patients, identify individualized needs, develop and update plans of care, provide appropriate interventions during surgical procedures, and evaluate patient progress. The RNFA demonstrates knowledge of surgical anatomy, physiology, and first-assistant operative techniques across specialty areas, and the manual dexterity and skills needed to assist the surgeon. The RNFA also maintains professional practice and documentation standards, follows hospital and departmental policies, supports patient rights and cultural and religious diversity, and follows procedures for instrument and scope sterilization and environmental cleaning.

Requirements

Graduate of an accredited nursing program.
Graduate of an accredited surgical assisting program that includes didactic instruction and supervised clinical learning activities, or documented on-the-job training.
Illinois nursing license or eligibility for Illinois licensure.
CPR certification required.
CNOR certification required.
At least three years of scrub/circulator experience.

Nice To Haves

ACLS certification is preferred; if not already completed, it must be completed within one year.
CRNFA certification preferred.

Responsibilities

Collaborate with and assist the surgeon during the intraoperative phase, including handling tissue, providing exposure, using instruments, suturing, and providing hemostasis.
Serve as a scrub or circulator as necessary.
Take responsibility for departmental and personal work schedules.
Support patients’ rights and responsibilities, including respect for cultural and religious diversity.
Provide safe, skillful, accurate, efficient, age-appropriate, and population-specific patient care.
Maintain current knowledge of and follow hospital and departmental policies and procedures.
Conduct oneself professionally.
Complete documentation accurately and promptly, including computerized documentation and ordering, according to hospital policies and procedures.
Engage in activities that expand or enhance the professional nursing role, including integrating research and evidence-based practice.
Provide leadership and autonomy in the professional practice setting and the nursing profession.
Use the nursing process to support optimal nursing care and patient outcomes.
Assess patients’ initial and ongoing conditions; formulate plans and identify individualized patient needs.
Facilitate interventions according to the established plan of care and provide appropriate nursing interventions for patients undergoing surgical intervention.
Evaluate progress toward patient care goals by individualizing, updating, and prioritizing the plan of care.
Follow policies and procedures for cleaning, disinfecting, and sterilizing scopes and instruments.
Follow policies and procedures for environmental cleaning and housekeeping.
Demonstrate knowledge of surgical anatomy and physiology and first-assistant operative techniques for procedures across specialty areas.
Implement surgical interventions and demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and manual dexterity needed to assist the surgeon.