OR Register Nurse - First Assist, Clackamas

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Job Summary
Provides assistance to the surgical team during the intra-operative phase of surgical care for the Northwest Surgical Services region. Works in collaboration with the surgeon and health care team in the performance of surgical procedures, including assessment, planning, directing, providing and evaluating advanced nursing care. All RNFAs will participate in a regional on-call rotation to provide surgical assistance for elective, emergent and urgent surgical cases.

• Pre-operative: performs pre-operative assessment, evaluation, and 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 protocols, including using instruments and medical devices, providing exposure, handling and/or cutting tissue, providing haemostasis, clamping, cutting, ligating tissue, suturing as directed, assisting with room preparation, bringing patient x‑rays to the room, transferring and positioning patients, assisting anesthesia during induction, participating in pre‑op briefing time‑out process, ensuring sterile technique, and monitoring free‑counted items.
• Post‑operative: evaluates the patient post‑operatively according to facility protocols, applies dressings, secures drainage tubes, assists with patient transfer and positioning, and assists with room tear down and turnaround.
• Continuous: reviews chart for pertinent data, maintains a safe environment, promotes efficiency, and may perform pre‑ and post‑operative patient education as designated.

• Minimum two (2) years of peri‑operative scrubbing and circulating experience in a KP OR or one (1) year experience as an RNFA in or outside of KP.

• Certification of Completion from an AORN recognized RNFA course.
• Successful completion of an RNFA program that meets the AORN Recommended Education Standards for RNFA and criteria for the CB.PMN acceptance program.

• Registered Nurse License (Oregon)
• Nurse Operating Room Certificate
• Basic Life Support

• Meets all qualification of an RNFA as outlined in AORN Position Statement.
• Must maintain CNOR and RN licensure with the required amount of Continuing Education.

• Minimum two (2) years of practice as an RNFA.
• CRNFA certification preferred.
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) required upon hire/transfer preferred.

• Week 1 : T/W/TH/F
• Week 2: T/W/TH/F
• Week 3: W/TH/F/SA
• Week 4: M/T/W/TH

• Mid-Senior level

• Full-time

• Health Care Provider

• Hospitals and Health Care