Surgical First Assistant
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Job Location:
Durango, CO - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
10 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Where Youll Work
Mercy Hospital is an 82 bed acute care hospital located in the scenic southwestern Colorado town of Durango. It is the only hospital in Colorado to be rated by Medicare with five stars for overall hospital quality. It is recognized for excellence in orthopedic and spine surgery and for outstanding patient experience and patient safety. Mercy has also received ten consecutive A grades for patient safety from The Leapfrog Group. Our providers use state-of-the-art technology in an environment designed to promote wellbeing and healing of body mind and spirit. Among the many specialty services available at Mercy are emergency care (Level III trauma designation) surgical care cardiac care (including interventional) Orthopedic and Spine Centers of Excellence a Family Birthing Center home care hospice care and more. Durango offers an exceptional quality of life with small town charm excellent schools and year-round world-class outdoor recreation opportunities including snow sports river sports hiking biking camping and more.
Job Summary and Responsibilities
You have a purpose unique talents and now is the time to embrace it live it and put it to work. We value incredible people with incredible skills but your commitment to a greater cause is something we value even more. This is the heartbeat of our organization and your time will be spent in a supportive team environment with resources to help you flourish and leaders who care about your success.
Previous OR experience require- Min of 3yrs
Previous Surgical First Assisting experiencepreferred
Day to Day Duties :
- Act as a Surgical First Assistant on surgeries.
- Work closely with the surgeon in a hands-on capacity helping the surgeon by handling vital tasks such as prepping the patient for surgery providing suturing clamping removing scar tissue and positioning patients during surgery to ensure a safe operation.
- Handing instruments to surgeons anticipating surgeons needs.
Under physician supervision may be expected to open and close surgical sites harvest grafts assist with homeostasis dissect and remove tissue insert devices alter tissue andother such procedures as requested.
- Maintaining and updating preference cards.
- Perform preoperative and post operative care as directed by surgeon to facilitate proper patient care
- Must be able and willing to function as a CST when volumes are low for SA needs
Schedule- 40hr/wk-Days -variable days per surgical volume and current unit needs.
Call Required-Approx 5 call shifts in 6 weeks 1900-0700 weeknights andon weekends
30min Callback radius required. Sleep rooms available in House
Job Requirements
In addition to bringing humankindness to the workplace each day qualified candidates will need the following:
- Three years operating room experience
- General knowledge of asepsis healing infectious disease process surgical
anatomy and physiology safety issues and operative techniques - Graduate from an accredited Surgical Assistant program required
- Certified as a one of the following: Certified Surgical First Assistant (CSFA) by NBSTSA; Certified Surgical Assistant (CSA) by NSAA; Surgical AssistantCertified (SAC) by ABSA
- Registered through DORA as a Colorado Surgical Assistant or Surgical Technologist
- License upon hire unless performing Surgical Assistant duties within the scope of another active Colorado license certification or registration (required for Colorado
employed staff only) - BLS from the American Heart Association required
Physical Requirements -Medium Work - (Exert up to 50lbs force occasionally and/or up to 20lbs frequently and/or up to 10lbs constantly)
Required Experience:
Junior IC
Key Skills
- Aseptic Technique
- Hospital Experience
- Acute Care
- Anatomy Knowledge
- Basic Life Support
- Computer Skills
- Physiology Knowledge
- Military Experience
- Suturing
- Medical Terminology
- Sterile Processing
About Company
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