Registered Nurse First Assist Operating Room AdventHealth Waterman

Location Address: 1000 Waterman Way Tavares, Florida 32778

Top Reasons To Work At AdventHealth Waterman

• Up to $12,500 sign on bonus and $3,000 relocation package for qualified candidates
• Immediate Health Insurance Coverage
• Great benefits such as: Onsite daycare, educational reimbursement
• State of the art unit with “Pod” Structure
• Career growth and advancement potential
• High quality of life with low cost of living just outside of Orlando, Florida

Work Hours/Shift:

Full Time / Days

You Will Be Responsible For:

• Registered nurses and surgical technologists practicing as first assistants in surgery are functioning in an expanded perioperative role. 

• Registered Nurse First Assistant (RNFA, CRNFA), expanded role in the perioperative setting include: 

• Preoperative patient management in collaboration with other health care providers, which includes performing a focused preoperative nursing assessment, communicating and collaborating with other health care providers in the patient’s plan of care 

• Postoperative patient management in collaboration with other health care providers, which include postoperative rounds, and discharge planning. 

• Registered Nurse First Assistants (RNFA, CRNFA) expanded role in the perioperative setting include the  intraoperative performance of surgical first assistant technique as in using instruments and medical devices, providing surgical site exposure, handling and/or cutting tissue, providing hemostasis by means of clamping vessels, coagulating, and ligating vessels, suturing, and closure of surgical sites (i.e. closure of muscle, fascia, subcutaneous, and skin).

• Registered Nurse First Assistants (RNFA, CRNFA), expanded role in the perioperative setting may include (upon successful completion and validation of advanced instruction/training): Inject dye with lymphosentigraphy and insertion of peripheral/central arterial/venous catheter