RNFA - Surgical First Assistant; CNOR/CRNFA
Job Description
Job Description
**Certified Registered Nurse First Assistant (CRNFA) required**
What you’ll do:
Assists the surgeons with surgery, wound closure and dressing. Facilitates patient and procedure flow through the OR and ensures the provision of high-quality patient care on a day-to-day basis. The Operating Room Nurse First Assist practices within the Patient and Family Centered Care Model and will assess, plan, implement and evaluate care for patients, coordinate ancillary staff and collaborate with interdisciplinary health care team.
Who you are:
- Minimum three years of recent operating room nursing first assist experience
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills: Ability to communicate professionally (i.e. using expressive vocabulary that communicates a complete and detailed message, avoiding spelling errors, employing a respectful tone)
- Ability to maintain enthusiasm while facing a high volume and a large variety of duties
- Ability and interest in learning procedures and software functionalities that could improve the effectiveness and efficiency of individual and department efforts
- Organized, with the ability to prioritize and multi-task
- Extremely reliable, patient and professional
- Reacts calmly and effectively under stress
- Interprets, adapts and applies guidelines and procedures appropriately
- Ability to develop and maintain effective and professional working relationships with patients, medical staff, coworkers and the public by demonstrating empathy and tact
- Must be a team player with a positive attitude, the ability to work effectively with a diverse population, and the ability to demonstrate patience and professionalism
- Promotes teamwork through collaboration, represents the practice in a professional manner, and maintains the strictest confidentiality on all patient issues
REQUIREMENTS:
- Active CT Registered Connecticut Nurse license
- Certified Registered Nurse First Assistant (CRNFA) required
- Associate Degree in Nursing, BSN preferred
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support must be obtained within 90 days of employment start date
- Basic Cardiac Life Support must be obtained within 30 days of employment start date
- PALS Pediatric Adv Life Supt must be obtained within 90 days of employment start date
What we offer:
- Excellent growth and advancement opportunities
- Dynamic environment
- Access to a diverse network of practitioners
- Broad infrastructure of tools and programs to enhance the employee experience
- Competitive Compensation
- Generous PTO
- Benefits package: health, dental, vision, 401(k), etc.
We are an equal-opportunity employer. Qualified Applicants are considered for positions and are evaluated without regard to actual or perceived race, color, creed, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, sex, or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), gender identity or gender expression (including transgender status), sexual orientation, marital status, military service and veteran status, physical or mental disability, protected medical condition as defined by applicable state or local law, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws and ordinances (referred to as “protected characteristics”).