Certified First Assist - Full Time - AdventHealth Gordon

All the benefits and perks you need for you and your family:

- Benefits from Day One

- Paid Days Off from Day One

- Student Loan Repayment Program

- Career Development

Our promise to you:

Joining AdventHealth is about being part of something bigger. It's about belonging to a community that believes in the wholeness of each person, and serves to uplift others in body, mind and spirit. AdventHealth is a place where you can thrive professionally, and grow spiritually, by Extending the Healing Ministry of Christ. Where you will be valued for who you are and the unique experiences you bring to our purpose-minded team. All while understanding that together we are even better.

Schedule: Full Time

Shift : Days

Location: 1035 Red Bud Road, Calhoun, GA 30701

The community you'll be caring for: AdventHealth Gordon

• Four seasons of outdoor activities, including whitewater, hiking, camping

• Named #4 on NICHE magazine's "Best Cities (under 100,000) to Raise a Family"

• Affordable land and homes

• Outstanding qualify of life

• Strong cultural community

• Access to excellent public and private K-12 education

• Convenient location between two large metropolitan areas: Atlanta and Chattanooga

Job Summary:

Under the direct supervision, assists the operating surgeon in care of patients in surgery and performs assigned selected duties.

The role you'll contribute:

Perform duties of Surgery Assistant to include assistance of the following tasks:

a. Placement and suturing of surgical drains

b. Patient positioning

c. Retracting tissues per surgeon's directive

• Drapes patient within surgeon's guidelines.

• Prepping of the surgical site.

• Placement of pneumatic tourniquet.

• Use of electro cautery mono and bipolar.

• Clamp, ligation, and cutting of tissue per surgeon's directive.

• Closure of all wound layers as per surgeon's directive.

• Prepare ACL graft as directed by physician.

• Performs other related duties as required

• Prepare Robotic and Laparoscopic Cases.

• Perform Patient Education as required.

• Assist in the set up and preparation for cases to be assisted.

• Train staff as requested for upcoming cases on equipment and procedure.

• Assist with cases requiring call as needed at the discretion of the director.

• Assist with turnover of cases as needed to facilitate the procedure and decrease wait time for the patient.

• Perform as a liaison between staff and physicians with principles of leadership.

• Maintains established company/hospital policies, procedures, directives, quality assurance, safety, environmental and infection control standards appropriate to this position.

• Demonstrates an understanding of and models the mission and core values of the company through behavior and attitude.

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Qualifications
What You Will Need:

• Be certified as a Surgical Assistant from the National Board of Surgical Technology and Surgical Assistants or the American Board of Surgical Assistants.

• BLS (current) from American Heart Association

• Three (3) years of current operating room scrub and/or assisting experience within the last five (5) years preferred

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