Job Summary. Provides assistance to the surgical team during the intra-operative phase of surgical care for the Northwest Surgical Services region. Works in collaboration with the surgeon and health care team in the performance of surgical procedures, including assessment, planning, directing, providing and evaluating advanced nursing care. All RNFAs will participate in a regional on-call rotation to provide surgical assistance for elective, emer...
Location: Medical Center - Fort Worth Department: Surgery-CT Shift: First Shift (United States of America) Standard Weekly Hours: 40 Summary: The Surgery Registered Nurse First Assistant will deliver skilled individualized nursing care to adult and pediatric patients in and outside of the operating room and skilled nursing care to patients and families according to their identified needs. The Surgery Registered Nurse First Assistant will deliver ...
The role of the RN First Assistant to the surgeon requires the performance of a combination or nursing and medical functions. The RNFA practices advanced surgical assisting skills such as providing exposure, tissue handling, suturing, providing hemostasis, and using surgical instruments. The RNFA is involved in all aspects of pre-operative, intra-operative and post-operative patient care within the scope of the privileges approved by the Medical ...
Position Summary. The Registered Nurse First Assistant (RNFA) is a perioperative registered nurse who functions in an expanded role or an Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) functioning as a first assistant The Registered Nurse First Assistant is responsible through nursing processes for providing and coordinating nursing care and resource management for patients and families in the operating room. RNFAs support the patient care team by per...
