Surgical First Assistant
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Job Location:
Fort Morgan, CO - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
Yesterday
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Where Youll Work
St. Elizabeth Hospital located in Fort Morgan Colorado is a Level 3 Trauma Center and an American College of Cardiology Accredited Chest Pain Center serving northeastern Colorado. Providing care through-out the region St. Elizabeth Hospital provides cardiology maternal emergency surgical pediatrics and acute care inpatient services in addition to the multitude of subspecialists in our specialty clinic. At 50 beds St. Elizabeth is the regions referral center serving a wide span of northeastern Colorado. Since 1952 St. Elizabeth has been serving the community in Morgan County which is one of the most diverse counties in Colorado speaking more than 28 languages.
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.
Participate and actively assist the surgeon in the performance of surgical procedures. Provides aid in exposurehemostasis and other technical functions to assist surgeon to perform a safe operation with optimal results to patient.
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
- GEN (Open/Laparoscopic/endoscopic) Ortho (Trauma/ Totals/Sports Med) OB/GYN (Open Laparoscopic and C-Sections) Trauma.
3 OR Suites 1 Endo Room 1 OB/C-Section suite.
Approx. 100 Cases per month
Schedule- PRN- Variable days of week and start times per Surgical Volume and Current Unit needs. TBD with OR manager during interviews.
Per policy PRN requires a Minavailability for 5 shifts in a 6 week schedule block and 2 holiday per year
Call not required
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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