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Registered Nurse (RN) - First Assist - $58-88 per hour

$58 - $88 per hour

Tenet Desert

Tenet Desert is seeking a Registered Nurse (RN) First Assist for a nursing job in Palm Springs, California.

Job Description & Requirements
  • Specialty: First Assist
  • Discipline: RN
  • Duration: Ongoing
  • 36 hours per week
  • Shift: 12 hours
  • Employment Type: Staff

Up to $25,000 Sign-On bonus for experienced Registered Nurse / RN

Shift: Days

Job type: Full Time

Hours:

The Registered Nurse First Assistant (RNFA) is a perioperative nurse who may function as an assistant to the surgeon in the operating room during surgical procedures. The RNFA performs first assistant behaviors according to standardized hospital policies. In addition to first assisting, responsibilities may include circulating, scrubbing and other duties as assigned.

  • Maintains clinical competence by assisting on surgical procedures
  • Participates in the call rotation
  • Participate in preoperative assessment and planning for selected surgical patients
  • Recognize safety hazards and initiate appropriate preventative and corrective actions
  • Provide exposure through appropriate use of instruments, retractors, suctioning, and sponging
  • Handle and dissect tissues in collaboration with the surgeon
  • Clamp blood vessels, coagulate bleeding points, ligate vessels, and perform other procedures in collaboration with the surgeon
  • Suture muscle, fascia, subcutaneous, and skin tissue in collaboration with the surgeon
  • Place drains as surgically indicated

Required :

OR/ RNFA experience strongly required


• Graduate of an approved school of Nursing, and posses a current California RN license
• Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing from an accredited school
• Certified as a perioperative nurse (CNOR) required or Certified Advance Practice Registered Nurse APRN and/or NP.
• Completion of an approved/accredited RNFA course, including the completion of the required internship hours 
• Proficient in perioperative nursing practice as both scrub and circulating nurse with diversified operating room experience.
• Current American Heart Association BLS Certification (maintain current at all times) 

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Tenet Desert Job ID #View phone number on click.appcast.io. Posted job title: Registered Nurse First Assistant (RNFA) - Surgery

Benefits
  • Sign-On bonus
Vacancy posted 2 days ago
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