Operating Room Registered Nurse - First Assist

Job Overview: We are seeking a highly skilled and dedicated Registered Nurse First Assist to join our Operating Room team. As a Registered Nurse First Assist in the Operating Room, you will play a vital role in assisting surgeons and providing exceptional patient care during surgical procedures. If you are passionate about delivering high-quality care and thrive in a fast-paced environment, we encourage you to apply. 1. Assess the health status of the patient in order to develop an individualized plan of care by collecting, categorizing, and interpreting data (physical and psychosocial) from documented information, observation, patient/family interview and other health care team members. 2. Assess the patient including nursing diagnosis, patient goals and nursing interventions necessary to achieve goals of care. 3. Implement nursing care to provide optimal individualized patient outcome 4. Instruct the patient and family to assist the patient in the achievement of optimal health status 5. document nursing activities to provide a permanent record, for continuity of care, quality improvement and professional accountability 6. Identify the patient to ensure the patient, procedure and operative site correspond 7. Plan, supervise and assist with the transfer of the patient to protect the patient and personnel from injury 8. Position the patient to provide access to the operative site while maximizing patient safety and comfort 9. Establish and maintain a surgically clean environment to reduce the potential for infection by applying the principles of the potential for infection by applying the principles of antisepsis, decontamination, disinfection, sanitation, sterilization and environmental monitoring 10. Establish and maintain a safe environment to protect the patient and the health care team by monitoring the patient (physiologically and psychologically) and the environment and by implementing safety procedures 11. Establish and maintain a sterile field to reduce potential for infection by teaching and supervising the application of principles of aseptic technique and continual monitoring of the sterile filed. 12. Coordinate support services need during surgery by anticipating and communicating patient and surgical team needs.