RN First Assistant - Loan Forgiveness & $25,000 Sign-on Bonus - Full Time, Days
Company: Alta Hospitals
Location: San Clemente
Posted on: April 26, 2024
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Job Description:
The Registered Nurse First Assist (RNFA) uses the nursing
process, to design, coordinate, and deliver patient care that meets
the identified needs of patients having operative procedures. - May
act as scrub or circulating nurse in various procedures. -
Demonstrates thorough knowledge and application of aseptic
techniques, and defined practice standards for operating room and
infection prevention. - Acts as a role model to nursing students,
and new nurses to the unit. -
The RNFA will carry out the functions that will assist the surgeon
in performing a safe operation with optimal results for the
patient. The RNFA practices peri-operative nursing and is therefore
responsible for independent nursing behaviors of peri-operative
assessment and post-operative evaluation of care. -
The RNFA practices under the direct supervision of the surgeon. The
RNFA must perform only as a first assist and not concurrently as a
scrub. The RNFA must adhere to the policies of Foothill Regional
Medical Center and must remain within the scope of practice stated
by the Nurse Practice Act of the State of California.
Based on the RNFA's scope of practice, patient acuity, type of
surgical procedure, and potential complications, the RNFA must
recognize and communicate his/her limitations. - The RNFA may
refuse to perform those functions for which he/she has not been
prepared or which he/she does not feel capable of
performing.Foothill Regional Medical Center is a fully accredited
acute care hospital, licensed for 177 beds-120 beds for general
acute care, 15 intensive care beds and 42 pediatric sub-acute beds.
Our pediatric sub-acute unit, just one of six in California, serves
patients from throughout the state. We care for patients up to 21
years of age who need long-term sub-acute care including ventilator
care and nutritional support.
Keywords: Alta Hospitals, San Clemente , RN First Assistant - Loan Forgiveness & $25,000 Sign-on Bonus - Full Time, Days , Healthcare , San Clemente, California
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