Education and Experience-

Education:

• Greater than 2 years, highly skilled multiple specialties in the area of First Assisting.
• Interpersonal skills to successfully interact with patients, relatives, physicians, managers and other employees.
• Current BLS
• Current ACLS
• 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

Licenses/Certifications:

• Current Registered Nurse License in the state of Oregon.
• Basic skills and related to aseptic/ sterile technique and knowledge of surgical instrumentation preferred

Experience:

• (2) Years’ Minimum of surgical assisting experience in a hospital or outpatient clinic

Duties and Responsibilities-

Essential 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 hemostatis, 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
• Demonstrates ability to perform technical skills and procedures.
• Assists in the intra-operative care of the patient by performing technical duties as assigned.

Physical Demands:

• Light lifting/carrying - Must be able to lift boxes and supplies of between 0 and 35 lbs.
• Moderate lifting - Must be able to lift larger boxes or supplies to and from dollies or cart.
• Moderate pushing - Must be able to push a dolly or cart weighing up to 150 lbs. about 50 yards.
• Reaching above shoulders - Must be able to put supplies weighing up to 35 lbs. up on a shelf and take them down.

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