Job Title: Registered Nurse First Assistant (RNFA)
Facility: Piedmont Atlanta Hospital
Job Duties:
Assess the health status of the patient in order to develop an individualized plan of care by collecting, categorizing, and interpreting data (physical and psychosocial) from documented information, observation, patient/family interview and other health care team membersAssess the patient including nursing diagnosis, patient goals and nursing interventions necessary to achieve goals of care.
Implement nursing care to provide optimal individualized patient outcome.
Instruct the patient and family to assist the patient in the achievement of optimal health status document nursing activities to provide a permanent record, for continuity of care, quality improvement and professional accountability
Identify the patient to ensure the patient, procedure and operative site correspond.
Plan, supervise and assist with the transfer of the patient to protect the patient and personnel from injury.
Position the patient to provide access to the operative site while maximizing patient safety and comfort.
Establish and maintain a surgically clean environment to reduce the potential for infection by applying the principles of the potential for infection by applying the principles of antisepsis, decontamination, disinfection, sanitation, sterilization and environmental monitoring.
Required experience:
Certified CVOR RNFA, minimum 5 years experience
Required Documents:
BLS or CPR Certificate.RN License.