Certified Surgical First Assistant

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• Supports the facility’s ideology, mission, goals, and objectives
• Performs in accordance with the facility’s policies and procedures
• Follows the facility’s standards for ethical business conduct
• Conducts self in a professional manner, and as a positive role model and team member
• Recognizes patients’ rights and responsibilities and supports them in performance of job duties
• Respects patient rights to privacy, dignity, and confidentiality
• Participates in facility committees, meetings, in‑services, inventory and activities
• Maintains professional relationships with management and medical staff
• Communicates effectively and professionally with patients, visitors, physicians, and coworkers
• Interacts with others in a positive, respectful, and considerate manner
• Uses facility resources appropriately and avoids wasteful practices
• Reports wasteful practices
• Analyzes work area and makes recommendations for potential cost‑effective improvements
• Contributes to the progress and development of the organization’s adopted compliance program
• Performs according to established compliance policies and procedures
• Contributes to the progress and development of the organization’s adopted performance‑improvement program
• Performs according to established performance‑improvement policies and procedures
• Objectively evaluates suggestions, grievances, and processes to identify opportunities to improve performance and quality of care
• Participates in data collection activities to support the performance‑improvement program
• Adheres to safety policies and procedures in performing job duties and responsibilities
• Reports observed or suspected safety violations, hazards, and policy/procedure noncompliance to the safety officer or other designated person
• Participates in continuing education and other learning experiences
• Shares knowledge gained in continuing education with staff
• Maintains membership in relevant professional organizations
• Seeks new learning experiences by accepting challenging opportunities and responsibilities
• Participates in teaching programs in the facility for employees and physicians on topics of special interest and topics pertinent to outpatient surgery
• Researches and submits pertinent articles for review at staff meetings
• Assists with orientation and training of new personnel and acts as a resource person for problems related to patient care
• Welcomes suggestions and recommendations
• Participates as a team member in support of the total peri‑operative process
• Organizes time, equipment, supplies, and personnel to provide effective and efficient case management
• Supervises and directs patient care in a single operating room
• Delegates activities appropriate to the abilities of available staff members
• Considers cost containment by using supplies economically and in effective turnover time
• Assists with supply and equipment inventories to maintain stock level and availability
• Addresses patient needs during admission to the operating room, with attention to requirements specific to the ASC setting
• Transports patients to the operating room observing policies/procedures, safety requirements, and patient needs
• Identifies the patient and correct surgical intervention according to policy/procedure and communicates such information to all members of the surgical team
• Provides comfort and reassurance to patient
• Maintains patients’ privacy and dignity
• Prepares operating room according to requirements of patient/procedure to be performed
• Assembles and provides properly functioning equipment, supplies, and instruments before start of procedure and positions and adjusts equipment as required during the procedure
• Anticipates needs of surgical team and assists anesthesia personnel by supporting patient during administration of anesthesia
• Assists with proper and safe positioning of the patient and prepares operative site as directed by established procedures
• Monitors compliance with principles of aseptic technique according to accepted standards
• Assists with identification and confirmation of operative site
• Provides for comfort in the physical environment by monitoring designated…