Registered Nurse First Assistant

Jobtome; Boerne (TX); On-site; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtome is seeking a qualified RNFA to join the Surgery Service Line in Texas. The role involves assisting the surgeon during operations, maintaining CNOR and ACLS certifications, and adhering to AORN standards.

When not acting as the RNFA, you will operate in a circulating role, collaborating with the broader OR team to ensure patient safety and quality care. The ideal candidate holds a Texas RN license, a current RNFA program completion, and a strong commitment to perioperative best practices

Qualifications

• Current Texas RN license required.
• CNOR certification and ACLS required.
• Completion of RNFA program meeting AORN standards.

Responsibilities

• Provide care as RNFA in collaboration with the supervising surgeon.
• Function as an expanded perioperative Circulating RN when not acting as RNFA.
• Demonstrate safe, competent surgical first assistant skills per policy and standards.
• Maintain professional decorum and collaborate with all OR team members.

Skills

RN Experience

CNOR Certification

ACLS Certification

Perioperative Nursing

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Nursing

Job description

POSITION SUMMARY/RESPONSIBILITIES

Serves as a team member of the Surgery Service Line by providing care in collaboration with the surgeon supervising surgeon. The RNFA practicing in the perioperative environment as a first assistant at surgery functions in an expanded perioperative Circulating RN role; must comply with all statutes, regulations, and institutional policies relevant to the RNFA who first assists at surgery; is required to acquire the knowledge and skills needed to provide safe, competent surgical first assistant services by completing a program that covers the content of the AORN Standards for RN First Assistant Education Programs; acquiring the necessaryknowledge, judgment, and skills, to the expanded role of RNFA clinical practice; intraoperatively practices at the direction of the surgeon providing surgical site exposure, handling and/or cutting tissue, providing hemostasis, suturing, and wound management. Does not concurrently function as a scrub tech or circulator. Represents the OR and exemplifies their inter-professional decorum by working synergistically with all members of the team. When not needed as an RNFA, they will be utilized in the Circulating role. Supports and maintains University Health mission, vision, and values.

EDUCATION

Must have a baccalaureate degree, with the exception that the RNFA practicing prior to January 1, 2020, may continue to practice at his or her existing level of education

LICENSURE/CERTIFICATION

Must be currently licensed as a Registered Nurse in Texas. Must maintain ACLS and certification in perioperative nursing (CNOR). Must have successfully completed an RNFA program that meets the AORN standards for RN first assistant education programs and compliance with all applicable statutes, regulations, and institutional policies relevant to RNFAs.. Continued Competency the RNFA demonstrates behaviors that progress on a continuum from basic competency to excellence, maintains CNOR status, and is encouraged to achieve and maintain CRNFA certification when eligibility requirements have been met.