Certified Surgical First Assist

Certified Surgical First Assist

Requirements

• Graduate of an approved specific discipline OR successful completion of a surgical assistant training program during the applicant’s service as a member of any branch of the armed forces of the United States.
• Minimum 3 years of relevant work experience.
• Certification from one of the listed issuers: CSFA – Certified Surgical First Assistant – National Board of Surgical Technology and Surgical Assisting (NBSTSA), CSA – Certified Surgical Assistant – National Surgical Assistant Association (NSAA), CSA- Certified Surgical Assistant – National Commission for Certification of Surgical Assistants (NCCSA)

Responsibilities

• Acts as a member of the operating room team by assisting with the room preparation, setup and clean up.
• Assists with patient positioning to provide access to the operative site while maximizing patient safety and comfort.
• Establishes and maintain a surgically clean environment to reduce the potential for patient infection through the application of the principals of asepsis.
• Initiate appropriate intra operative behaviors unique to first assisting.
• Providing visualization of the operative site.
• Utilizing appropriate techniques to assist with hemostasis.
• Participating in volume replacement or autotransfusion techniques as appropriate.
• Utilizing appropriate techniques to assist with closure of body planes.
• Selecting and applying appropriate wound dressings.
• Providing assistance in securing drainage systems to tissue.
• The responsibilities listed are a general overview of the position and additional duties may be assigned.
• May perform as a Surgical Technologist upon necessity.

Preferred Qualifications

No preferred qualifications provided.