About Us
McLaren Health Care, headquartered in Grand Blanc, Michigan, is a $7.3 billion, fully integrated health care delivery system committed to quality, evidence-based patient care and cost efficiency. The McLaren system includes 12 hospitals in Michigan, ambulatory surgery centers, imaging centers, a 640-member employed primary and specialty care physician network, commercial and Medicaid HMOs covering more than 732,838 lives in Michigan and Indiana, home health, infusion and hospice providers, pharmacy services, a clinical laboratory network and a wholly owned medical malpractice insurance company. McLaren operates Michigan’s largest network of cancer centers and providers, anchored by the Karmanos Cancer Institute, a National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer centers. McLaren has 20,000 full-, part-time and contracted employees and more than 113,000 network providers throughout Michigan, Indiana and Ohio.
Registered Nurse First Assistant - Operating Room
Department: Operating Room
Shift: Casual
Daily Work Times: Variable
Scheduled Biweekly Hours: 0
Position Summary:
Provides patient care under direction of Surgical Services and individual surgeon. The nursing care is devoted to intraoperative care serving as the first assistant to the surgeon during the surgical intervention. In the event that the services of the Registered Nurse First Assistant (RNFA) are not required due to the lack of cases needing assistant, they may be assigned to function as a scrub or circulating nurse.
Essential Functions and Responsibilities:
1. Adheres to standards of nursing practice of McLaren Greater Lansing (MGL), which consists of systematic approach to nursing practice by using nursing process.
2. Develops perioperative plan of care.
3. Demonstrates knowledge of judgment needed to meet the nursing needs appropriate to the age of the assigned patient.
Required:
· Graduate of an accredited school of nursing.
· Minimum of two-year operating room experience with proficiency in scrubbing and circulating duties.
· Certified Registered Nurse First Assistant Certification (CNFA)
· BLS certification as Healthcare Provider or equivalent through the Military Training Network (MTN).
· American Heart Association or American Red Cross ACLS certification with 6 months of hire.
Preferred:
· Bachelor’s Degree in nursing.
· At least one RNFA Skills Workshop.
Equal Opportunity Employer
McLaren Health Care is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identification, age, sex, marital status, national origin, disability, genetic information, height or weight, protected veteran or other classification protected by law.
