RN First Assistant Surgery
Job description
Founded in 1955 Dignity Health – Northridge Hospital Medical Center is a 394-bed acute care nonprofit community hospital located in Northridge California. The hospital offers a full complement of award winning services including the Leavey Cancer Center a cardiovascular center stroke center the Center for Assault Treatment Services a pediatric medical center and the only pediatric trauma center in the San Fernando Valley. As a leading provider of compassionate high-quality and affordable patient-centered care we share a rich legacy with Dignity Health one of the nation’s five largest health care systems. We are part of a 21-state network of nearly 9000 physicians 62000 employees and more than 400 care centers. Visit dignityhealth.org/northridgehospital for more information.
Northridge Hospital Medical Center
Registered Nurse First Assistant ***We offer a SIGN ON BONUS***
Surgery Department
All employees are expected to perform their duties in alignment with the vision and values of the organization. The person doing this job is responsible for a variety of tasks that lead to a high level of customer satisfaction in the most cost-effective manner with respect and dignity. The Registered Nurse First Assistant is a professional Registered Nurse and is a specialized area of practice . Registered nurses practicing as first assistants in surgery are functioning in an expanded perioperative nursing role. First assisting behaviors are further refinements of perioperative nursing practice and are executed within the context of the nursing process. These behaviors include certain delegated medical functions that can be assumed by the RN who is qualified to practice as an RNFA. Registered nurse first assistant behaviors may vary depending on patient populations, practice environments, service provided, accessibility of human and fiscal resources, institutional policy, and state nursing regulations.
The RNFA is a perioperative registered nurse who works in collaboration with the surgeon and other health care team members to achieve optimal patient outcomes; has acquired the necessary knowledge, judgment, and skills specific to the expanded role of RNFA clinical practice; intra operatively practices at the direction of the surgeon; and does not concurrently function as a scrub person. preoperative patient management in collaboration with other health care providers, such as performing focused preoperative nursing assessments communicating and collaborating with other health care providers regarding the patient plan of care, and intraoperative performance of surgical first-assistant techniques as in using instruments and medical devices providing surgical site exposure, handling and/or cutting tissue, providing hemostasis, suturing; or other defined practices as described in the allied health privileging process via the oversight and approval of the Hospital medical staff.
The Registered Nurse also may provide professional nursing care to patients of all ages in accordance with individual needs, physician orders, Hospital policy and standards of nursing practice .
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Responsibilities
- Adheres to established Hospital/departmental policies and procedures, objectives, Quality Assessment and Improvement
- Program, legal, safety, environmental, infection control standards, Nurse Practices Act and Patient's Bill of Rights.
- Applies clinical knowledge and expertise for coordinating patient care by regularly planning in, and evaluation of the care of patients.
- Demonstrates effective nursing judgement and a working knowledge of the nursing process. Provides guidance to interdisciplinary team members by supervising nursing interventions and assisting with related tasks.
- Provides leadership by establishing priorities and coordinating nursing care.
- Documents and communicates all observed symptoms, reactions, treatments and changes in the patient condition to the appropriate member of the interdisciplinary health care team.
- Provides for teaching based on identified need.
- Coordinates plan of care with other members of the interdisciplinary health care team to achieve desired goals and outcomes.
- Communicates the plan of care to the patient and advocates for the active involvement of the patient in the evolution of the plan throughout hospitalization.
- Conforms to legal requirements of nursing practice and Hospital policies and procedures. Demonstrates a professional, cooperative manner when dealing with all members of the interdisciplinary health care team.
- Demonstrates understanding of organizational structure and utilizes appropriate channels of communication.
- Administers medications to assigned patients as directed and assesses and documents patient responses; initiates appropriate interventions per Hospital/Unit policy. Follows chain of command where indicated for safe patient care needs.
- Demonstrates an understanding of the approaches to and methods of Continuous Performance Improvement.
- Attendance for all mandatory training met per department guidelines for established deadlines.
- May be required to respond to on-call for department needs, being readily available for urgent and emergent on-call cases per department need and schedule.
- Serves as a preceptor and role model to new personnel and nursing students. Collaborates with the Supervisory Staff to identify own educational and professional growth needs.
- Performs other related duties as assigned or requested.
Qualifications
- Registered Nurse with current California License.
- Successful completion of an RNFA program that meets the "AORN standards for RN first assistant education programs"1, compliance with all statutes, regulations, and institutional policies relevant to RNFAs as defined by the hospital medical staff criteria
- Minimum 1 year current acute care registered nursing experience in OR specialty area required.
- Must have successful completion of an accredited/approved Nursing program.
- Current certification in specialty area – certification in perioperative nursing (CNOR) is preferred
- Current AHA BLS card required
- LA City Fire Care required within 90 days of hire.
Pay Range
$46.76 - $60.79 /hour
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