Registered Nurse (RN) - First Assist - $58-88 per hour

Tenet Desert is seeking a Registered Nurse (RN) First Assist for a nursing job in Palm Springs, California.

• Specialty: First Assist
• Discipline: RN
• Duration: Ongoing
• 36 hours per week
• Shift: 12 hours
• Employment Type: Staff

Up to $25,000 Sign-On bonus for experienced Registered Nurse / RN

Job type: Full Time

Hours:

In addition to first assisting, responsibilities may include circulating, scrubbing and other duties as assigned.

• Maintains clinical competence by assisting on surgical procedures
• Participates in the call rotation
• Participate in preoperative assessment and planning for selected surgical patients
• Recognize safety hazards and initiate appropriate preventative and corrective actions
• Provide exposure through appropriate use of instruments, retractors, suctioning, and sponging
• Handle and dissect tissues in collaboration with the surgeon
• Clamp blood vessels, coagulate bleeding points, ligate vessels, and perform other procedures in collaboration with the surgeon
• Suture muscle, fascia, subcutaneous, and skin tissue in collaboration with the surgeon
• Place drains as surgically indicated

Required:

• Graduate of an approved school of Nursing, and posses a current California RN license
• Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing from an accredited school
• Certified as a perioperative nurse (CNOR) required or Certified Advance Practice Registered Nurse APRN and/or NP.
• Completion of an approved/accredited RNFA course, including the completion of the required internship hours
• Proficient in perioperative nursing practice as both scrub and circulating nurse with diversified operating room experience.
• Current American Heart Association BLS Certification (maintain current at all times)

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Tenet Desert Job ID #2603002502. Posted job title: Registered Nurse First Assistant (RNFA) - Surgery

• Sign-On bonus