Surgical First Assist Nurse

As a Surgical First Assistant, you will provide critical patient care by directly assisting the surgeon during operative procedures, working under their immediate direction. You will instrumental in ensuring a safe surgical experience through technical support for exposure, hemostasis, and wound closure.

Every day you will collaborate closely with the surgical team, performing duties under the guidance of the operating surgeon, circulating nurse, and reporting to your designated Team Leader. This involves a range of assigned tasks to support the surgical process effectively.

To be successful, you will demonstrate exceptional technical proficiency in assisting the surgeon, maintaining acute awareness of the surgical field and patient safety.

• Assesses the patient for unique surgical needs during a procedure. Proactively assesses the need for specialty equipment, instrumentation, and assisting functions that will provide optimal assistance to the operating surgeon.
• Analyzes assessment data in determining patient care needs and in determining how to safely support the surgical team during the intraoperative phase.
• Identifies expected outcomes individualized to the patient and surgical procedure. Adapts to changes during the case to achieve desired outcomes.
• Develops a plan of care that prescribes interventions to attain expected outcomes. Assisting techniques are reviewed/studied prior to assisting with unfamiliar cases.
• Implements the interventions identified in the plan of care. Reviews charts, interview patients, assists with positioning, prepping, draping patients, providing hemostasis through clamping, ligation, use of electrosurgical units or hemostatic agents.
• Provides surgical wound exposure via retraction, suctioning, irrigation, suturing, and sponging techniques. Handles tissue, organs, vessels, nerves, and bone with appropriate instrumentation. Sutures fascia, subcutaneous and skin layers, places drains and secures, and applies dressings.

Required

• Associate Of Nursing
• Graduate of an accredited Registered Nurse First Assistant (RNFA) program
• Registered Nurse: AZ (RN:AZ)
• Basic Life Support - CPR (BLS-CPR) 
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) 
• Certified Nurse Operating Room (CNOR)

Preferred

• Bachelors Of Nursing
• Electronic Medical Record EMR experience and Cerner
• Certified Registered Nurse First Assistant (CRNFA)

At Dignity Health, living our values means bringing passion into action every day. Dignity Health-Yavapai Regional Medical Center (DH-YRMC), now part of CommonSpirit Health, is a not-for-profit integrated healthcare provider that offers a broad range of inpatient and outpatient services including network-wide opportunities to advance your career.

What started as a simple community hospital, is today a state-of-the-art healthcare system with two acute care hospitals, a network of primary and specialty care clinics, outpatient health and wellness centers, cardiac diagnostic centers, and outpatient medical imaging centers.

As you build your career at DH-YRMC, you’ll find Prescott is an inspiring place to live, work, and enjoy the outdoors.

• It is an inviting community with bygone charm and modern amenities.
• Local residents enjoy four spectacular seasons, while the area offers nearly year-round sunshine for any outdoor adventures.
• The carefree, relaxed lifestyle offers short commute opportunities, so you can focus on your career and your family.

Dignity Health-Yavapai Regional Medical Center extends this feeling with a strong sense of family, security, and belonging. Our compassion and commitment to quality care have earned awards, such as the Stroke Care Excellence Award (2022), Neuroscience Excellence Award (2021, 2020), and America’s 100 Best Hospitals for Stroke Care Awards (2020, 2021) and have placed us at the top of the charts in community and nationwide in healthcare. Come experience the incredible quality-of-life that Dignity Health-YRMC and Prescott have to offer! #hellohumankindness