Surgical First Assistant, Rotating Shift, Operating Room

Job description

Shady Grove Medical Center If you are a current Adventist HealthCare employee, please click this link to apply through your Workday account. Shady Grove Medical Center seeks to hire an experienced Surgical First Assistant for our Operating Room who will embrace our mission to extend God’s care through the ministry of physical, mental, and spiritual healing. As a Surgical First Assistant you will: - Provide visualization of the operative site by: Appropriate placement and securing of retractors; packing with sponges and/ or lap. Packs; Manipulation of tissues; suctioning, sponging and /or irrigating. - Utilize appropriate techniques to assist with hemostasis by: Permanent: Clamping and /or cauterizing vessels or tissue; tying and /or ligating clamped vessels or tissues; applying hemostatic clips; Placing local hemostatic agents. - Assist the OR team in setting up the operating room for surgical procedures, collaborates with the surgical team in selecting the appropriate equipment and positioning devises for the surgery. Anticipates additional instrument and supplies needed during the procedure. - Collaborates with the surgical team when positioning the patient making certain the bod...