What are the responsibilities and job description for the Surgical Assistant I - Operating Room - Rotating position at Endeavor Health?
Position Highlights
- Position: Surgical Assistant I
- Hourly Pay Range: $30.46 - $45.69. The hourly pay rate offered is determined by a candidate’s expertise and years of experience, among other factors.
- Location: Chicago, IL
- Full Time
- Hours: Monday-Friday, rotating shift
- Required Travel: none
- The Surgical Assistant possesses and demonstrates competencies related to the preoperative and intraoperative aspects of care. The Assistant is a team member who participates with an interdisciplinary team of clerical, ancillary technical staff, nurses, technicians, anesthesiologists, physicians/surgeons to provide safe and effective care on any type of surgical procedure, as directed. Works a scheduled shift, but also takes call after regularly scheduled hours with a 30-minute response time. Demonstrates a commitment to the mission of Swedish Hospital and demonstrates a service orientation and adheres to all responsibilities and standards of the Hospital.
- Serves as first or second assistant in designated surgical procedures under the direct supervision of the operating surgeon / physician; handles all variety of tissue appropriately to reduce potential for injury or compromised blood supply; uses surgical instruments appropriately, employs principles of safe tissue handling; provides exposure to operative site; provides and maintains hemostasis and performs wound closure; demonstrates advanced knowledge of normal and pathological anatomy and physiology.
- Safely positions the patients for the surgical procedure and assists with transport to and from the operative suite
- Assists surgeon in identifying patient and staff safety hazards (such as identifying structures that should not be ligated, break in surgical technique, exposed sharps, etc.)
- Surgical prepping and draping of patients for the surgical procedure
- Urinary catheter placement
- Placement of pneumatic tourniquet
- Prepare ACL graft as directed by the surgeon
- Provides exposure of the operative site by the appropriate use of retractors, by placing and moving the retractors when necessary, with awareness to anatomical structures
- Manipulates equipment and instruments to enhance the visual field (e.g. steering and focusing of laparoscopic cameras to aim at the surgical field)
- Suctions and sponges to maintain a dry surgical field resulting in an optimal visualization of the surgical field
- Provides counter-traction of tissue utilizing various instruments (e.g. retractors and forceps)
- Assists with maintaining hemostasis to reduce potential for fluid volume deficits by clamping / ligating vessels, using electrocautery to tissue, applying manual direct pressure, assisting with use of pharmaceutical agents (e.g. topical thrombin) and other means as directed by the surgeon / physician
- Assist in placement and suturing of surgical drains.
- Ties and cuts sutures
- Skillfully sutures all varieties of tissues / tissue planes with appropriate suture materials and suturing techniques. Assists in closure of wound or independently closes wound under the direction of the surgeon.
- Assists and independently applies dressing and tape at the end of the surgical procedure using proper aseptic / sterile techniques
- Assists with CPR of patient during cardiac arrest
- Must be able to gown and glove self, using open or closed gloving technique
- Assists room staff by ensuring equipment for the case has been gathered and is in place using the case card
- Duties as directed by nurse manager or circulating nurse during the perioperative period.
- Assumes on-call responsibilities as assigned
- Must have a least 1 year of Operating Room experience as a Surgical Assistant or RNFA
- Must be licensed to practice as a Surgical Assistant in Illinois
- CPR Certification required
- Must be certified as one of the following through their respective certifying bodies: CSA, SA-C, CST/CFA, or RNFA
- First Assistant Certification preferred in one's own discipline (i.e. RNFA, CST/CFA, SA)
- Must have one of the following:
- Graduate of Accredited Medical School
- Foreign Medical Graduate eligible to take the ECFMG examination
- Graduate of an Accredited Surgical Assistant Program
- Bachelor’s Degree from Accredited Nursing Program
- Graduate from Surgical Tech Program
- Career Pathways to Promote Professional Growth and Development
- Various Medical, Dental, and Vision options
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Wellness Program Savings Plan
- Health Savings Account Options
- Retirement Options with Company Match
- Paid Time Off
- Community Involvement Opportunities
Salary : $30 - $46
