Outside Sales Metro
Listed on 2026-03-14
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Nursing
Surgical Assistant, Operating Room Nurse
Lines of Responsibility
Main Surgery Campus (MSC) Team Leader, MSC Manager, Director of Surgical Services, Vice President of Clinical Services, Chief Executive Officer
Job SummaryResponsible for the delivery of safe, effective, and quality patient-family centered care in the OR and other areas of perioperative services for all patient populations. Functions as an RN first assistant during operative and other invasive procedures and throughout the perioperative continuum in accordance with scope of practice credentials, privileges, experience, education, and competency verification. May also facilitate the operative or other invasive procedure by preparing and providing the required sterile instruments, supplies and equipment.
Maintains the sterile field and anticipates and responds to the needs of the surgical team. Functions as a second assistant during operative and other invasive procedures in accordance with scope of practice, experience, education and competency verification. Responsible for meeting the needs of the OR whether it is in a secondary or primary assistant role.
- a. protecting the patient from injury caused by extraneous objects and chemical, electrical, laser, mechanical, and thermal sources;
- b. participating in accounting procedures to protect the patient from unintended retained surgical items;
- c. performing interventions necessary to ensure that the patient’s procedure is performed on the correct site, side, and level;
- d. assisting with management of the patient’s specimens as necessary;
- e. communicating the patient’s current status to relevant parties throughout the continuum of care;
- f. administering medications safely and correctly;
- g. performing interventions to maintain the patient’s wound and tissue perfusion at or above baseline levels;
- h. performing interventions to maintain the status of the patient’s genitourinary, gastrointestinal, musculoskeletal, endocrine, respiratory, cardiovascular, and neurological systems and fluid, electrolyte, and acid-base balances at or above baseline levels;
- i. performing interventions to ensure the patient is at or returned to normothermia at the conclusion of the immediate postoperative period;
- j. performing interventions to protect the patient from surgical site infection;
- k. assessing the knowledge level of the patient or designated support person;
- l. providing education regarding the expected psychosocial response, nutritional management, medication management, pain management, wound management, and expected responses to the operative or invasive procedure;
- m. involving the patient or designated support person actively in decisions affecting his or her perioperative care and the rehabilitation process;
- n. protecting the patients’ rights, dignity, and privacy;
- o. providing age‑specific, culturally competent, ethical care within legal standards of practice; and
- p. Providing consistent and comparable care regardless of the setting.
- a. providing exposure through correct use of instruments, retractors, suction, and sponging techniques;
- b. handling and dissecting tissues in collaboration with the surgeon;
- c. clamping blood vessels, coagulating bleeding points, and ligating vessels in collaboration with the surgeon;
- d. placing drains as directed by the surgeon; and
- e. Suturing muscle, fascia, subcutaneous, and skin in collaboration with the surgeon.
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