Certified Surgical First Assistant (CSFA)

Parkway Surgery Center is seeking a PRN Certified Surgical First Assistant to join the team!

Parkway Surgery Center is a fast-paced, multi-specialty Ambulatory Surgery Center (ASC) environment committed to producing the highest quality work and experience for patients and their families.  

• Monday to Friday work schedule!
• Off on weekends and holidays!
• NO call required!

Job Summary:

Reporting to the OR Director, this position will assess, plan, implement and evaluate care for all age patients in operating room. Provides care within nursing standards of practice and the policies of the Center. Makes decisions regarding direct patient care needs and communicates appropriate information to physicians, patients, family members, and personnel in other departments as well as team members. May have additional responsibilities as designated by the Nurse Manager of the Operating Room and/or Director of Nursing, which include, but are not limited to, serving on committees, participating in quality improvement audits and projects.

Preoperative Role:

1. Participate in preoperative assessment and planning for selected surgical patients in collaboration with the health team members in the preoperative location.

Intraoperative Role:

1. Recognize safety hazards and initiate appropriate preventative and corrective actions.
2. Provide exposure through appropriate use of instruments, retractors, suctioning, and sponging techniques.
3. Handle and dissect tissues in collaboration with the surgeon.
4. Clamp blood vessels, coagulate bleeding points, ligate vessels, and perform other procedures in collaboration with the surgeon.
5. Suture muscle, fascia, subcutaneous, and skin tissue in collaboration with the surgeon.
6. Place drains as surgically indicated.
7. Assist with cannulation and decanulation procedures, if indicated.

Postoperative Role:

Follow selected surgical patients postoperatively in collaboration with the interdisciplinary team.

1. Serve as an educator, mentor, consultant, and resource to colleagues and other health care professionals in relation to CSFA activities.

2.  Work as a professional colleague with the perioperative team and influence multidisciplinary relationships by enhancing collaborative processes.        

3. Maintain regulatory, credentialing, and privileging requirements.

4. Complete CSFA-specific competencies.

5.  Pursue professional growth related to both perioperative nursing and CSFA practice and participate in a professional organization.

What We Offer                                       

USPI offers the following benefits, subject to employment status:       

• Medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance
• Paid time off (vacation & sick leave) - Starting PTO accrual is 5 days per year.
• 401k retirement plan
• Paid holidays
• Health savings accounts, healthcare & dependent flexible spending accounts
• Employee Assistance program, Employee discount program
• Voluntary benefits include pet insurance, legal insurance, accident and critical illness insurance, long term care, elder & childcare, AD&D, auto & home insurance.

Requirements:

• Graduate of a Certified Surgical First Assistant (CSFA) program.
• Currently licensed in the state, if required. 
• CPR required, Advanced Life Support (ACLS) certification required. 
• 1+ year experience required intra-operative setting.   2+ years perioperative services experience preferred. 
• Demonstrates clinical competency, leadership, and teaching capabilities.
• Physically and emotionally capable of performing responsibilities of position. 

Additional requirements include:

• Excellent knowledge of surgical anatomy, physiology, and operative technique
• Completion of an CSFA Program
• Completion of credentialing process or employment process

Who We Are

We are part of a much larger team with United Surgical Partners International (USPI).  At USPI, we create relationships that create better care. We partner with physicians and healthcare systems to provide first-class ambulatory solutions throughout the United States. We are committed to providing surgical services in the most efficient and clinically excellent manner.

USPI is committed to, and proud of our inclusive culture. An inclusive culture, in our view, is respectful of differences and nurtures and supports the contributions of each individual, while also embracing and leveraging diversity. A diverse workforce, combined with an inclusive culture, makes USPI stronger and better able to meet the needs of our diverse patient and physician population.