Certified Surgical First Assistant

Benefits:

• Dental
• Eye Care
• Medical

Job description:

• Assisting with patient resuscitation during cardiac arrests or other life-threatening events.
• Covering patients with surgical drapes to ensure and maintain a sterile operating field, removing patients' body hair, and disinfecting the incision site.
• Determining the availability and inspecting sterile and non-sterile surgical equipment, tools, and supplies.
• Adjusting and maintaining the operating room temperature, humidity, and lighting according to the Surgeon's specifications.
• Applying sutures, staples, clips, and drainage systems and clamping, or cauterizing blood vessels to control bleeding.
• Assisting with the positioning of patients' bodies to protect against nerve damage or circulation impairment and assessing the patients' body conditions after surgery.
• Maintaining an unobstructed operating field with surgical retractors, sponges, and suctioning and irrigating equipment.
• Monitoring patients' positions, vital signs, and volume and color of blood during operations.
• Assisting the surgical team with gowning or gloving and passing instruments or supplies to the Surgeon.
• Assisting with the application of dressings, casts, splints, braces, and other devices.​

Job Type: Contract

Salary: $30.00 - $36.00 per year

Schedule:

• 10 hour shift
• Day shift
• Monday to Friday

Ability to Relocate:

• Brookfield, WI: Relocate before starting work (Required)

Work Location: In person