Full-Time
Registered Nurse First Assist
Cooper University Health Care
Academic health system
Compensation Overview
$45.28 - $67.94/hr
Middle Township, NJ, USA
In Person
Weekday and weekend on-call requirements apply.
Bachelor's
 Medical, Clinical & Veterinary (1) |
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- A Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree is required.
- An active New Jersey registered nurse license is required.
- Certified Nurse Operating Room certification is required.
- American Heart Basic Life Support certification is required.
- The role requires weekday and weekend on-call availability.
- The nurse must apply surgical anatomy, physiology, operative techniques, asepsis, and infection-control principles in the registered nurse first-assist role.
- The nurse must perform patient positioning, preparation, and draping.
- The nurse must handle tissue and use instruments, retractors, suctioning, and sponging techniques to provide operative exposure.
- The nurse must perform wound closure and suture the peritoneum, fascia, subcutaneous tissues, and skin, applying surgical dressings.
- The nurse must recognize safety hazards and initiate appropriate corrective actions within the limits of preparation and experience.
- Assist surgeons in operating rooms across surgical divisions as a registered nurse first assist.
- Assist with transferring patients from the operating room.
- Perform preoperative and postoperative evaluation and teaching.
- Maintain continuing education and provide teaching.
- Visit patients and make rounds with or without the sponsoring physician, documenting assessments in progress notes for co-signature by the sponsoring surgeon.
- Write postoperative orders as directed by the operating surgeon while the patient is in the recovery room; the operating surgeon must immediately sign the orders.
- During an operating surgeon's incapacity or unavailability, maintain the patient's status while a substitute surgeon is summoned, except in a dire emergency.
- Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support certification.
- Experience or certification as a Certified Registered Nurse First Assistant.
Cooper University Health Care is an academic health system based in South Jersey. The organization provides hospital, specialty, primary, emergency, outpatient, research, and medical education services through an integrated care network. It serves patients, families, clinicians, students, researchers, and communities across southern New Jersey. Its operating model centers on academic medicine and community care supported by physician practices, clinical institutes, technology, facilities, and centralized operations. Teams work across nursing, physicians, allied health, research, education, technology, facilities, administration, and patient care. Teams support coordinated daily delivery.
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