Rn​/Registered Nurse - Or First Assistant

Position: RN / REGISTERED NURSE - OR FIRST ASSISTANT
Job: 1 RN / REGISTERED NURSE - OR FIRST ASSISTANT Location US-DE-Lewes  Category Nursing Position Type Full-Time Why Beebe? Become part of the Beebe team - an inclusive team positioned in a vibrant, coastal community. Enjoy a fulfilling career as you support the health of our patients and a team focused on excellence. Benefits In addition to competitive compensation and wellness benefits (medical, dental, vision and prescription) Beebe Healthcare also offers:
Sign-on and Referral Bonuses for select positions Tuition Assistance up to $5,000 Paid Time Off Long Term Sick accrual Employer Contribution Plan Free Short and Long-Term Disability for Full Time employees Zero copay for drugs on prescription plan for certain conditions College Bound 529 Savings Plan Life Insurance Beebe Perks via Work Advantage Employee Assistance Program Pet Insurance Overview RN First Assistant - Full Time Beebe Healthcare Beebe Healthcare is seeking a skilled and compassionate Registered Nurse First Assistant (RNFA) to join our dynamic surgical services team.

In this full-time role, the RN First Assistant will play an essential part in providing expert perioperative nursing care, supporting surgeons, and ensuring optimal patient outcomes in the operating room. The RNFA is a clinically competent professional nurse with demonstrated expertise in the perioperative setting. This role encompasses the full nursing process, including assessment, planning, intervention, implementation, and evaluation, while providing direct assistance during surgical procedures.

The RNFA collaborates with surgeons, anesthesiologists, and the perioperative team to deliver safe, efficient, and high-quality patient care.

Key Responsibilities:

Deliver comprehensive perioperative care to surgical patients. Perform first assistant duties, including tissue handling, wound exposure, suturing, and hemostasis. Collaborate with the surgical team to ensure safe and effective operative outcomes. Utilize critical thinking and clinical expertise in preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative care. Support Beebe Healthcare's mission of excellence in patient-centered care. Responsibilities Demonstrates competency in performance of scrub/surgical routines and aseptic technique- utilizes proper scrub, gown and gloving technique for self, surgeon, and assistant ongoing monitoring of asepsis in all roles-scrub, circulator, and assistant anticipates needs of surgeon consistently recognizes sequence of procedures in all roles-scrub, circulator, and assistant passes instruments correctly appropriate review and preparation for assigned procedures.

Understands and utilizes established guidelines for operation of autoclaves and steris units performs daily A-Test/Biological tests as required performs proper care, handling, and assembly of instruments for processing ensures complete/thorough documentation of all flash and steris cycles as per protocol. Accepts personal accountability for proper handling, judicious use, and optimum care of all department supply, instrument, and equipment inventory. Utilizes the nursing process throughout the perioperative setting per patient assessment collecting, interpreting, recording, and communicating pertinent data relevant to patient care in surgery care planning-utilization of collected data to plan appropriately for intraoperative nursing care implementing-provides direct patient care to meet physical and psychological needs evaluating care-continuously evaluates patient response to nursing intervention and modifies care plan to achieve desired outcome.

Demonstrates and conveys theoretical knowledge and skills related to perioperative nursing care understands the "why" concept as well as the "how" process. Thorough/Accurate/Complete documentation of intraoperative patient care. Understands / Demonstrates / Conveys knowledge related to proper intraoperative patient position in

G universal skin care precautions prevention of nerve damage prevention of pressure related skin breakdown. Assists with completion and accuracy of surgical sponge, sharps/miscellaneous items, and instrument counts as per established policies and…