Surgical First Assistant

You have a purpose, unique talents and now is the time to embrace it, live it and put it to work. We value incredible people with incredible skills – but your commitment to a greater cause is something we value even more. This is the heartbeat of our organization and your time will be spent in a supportive, team environment with resources to help you flourish and leaders who care about your success.

Previous OR experience require- Min of 3yrs 

Previous Surgical First Assisting experience preferred 

Day to Day Duties :

• Act as a Surgical First Assistant on surgeries.
• Work closely with the surgeon in a hands-on capacity, helping the surgeon by handling vital tasks such as prepping the patient for surgery, providing suturing, clamping, removing scar tissue and positioning patients during surgery to ensure a safe operation. 
• Handing instruments to surgeons, anticipating surgeon’s needs.

• Under physician supervision, may be expected to open and close surgical sites, harvest grafts, assist with homeostasis, dissect and remove tissue, insert devices, alter tissue and other such procedures as requested.

• Maintaining and updating preference cards.
• Perform preoperative and post operative care as directed by surgeon to facilitate proper patient care
• Must be able and willing to function as a CST when volumes are low for SA needs

Schedule- 40hr/wk-Days -variable days per surgical volume and current unit needs.

Call Required-Approx 5 call shifts in 6 weeks –1900-0700 weeknights and 700-1900, 1900-0700 on weekends

30min Callback radius required. Sleep rooms available in House 

In addition to bringing humankindness to the workplace each day, qualified candidates will need the following:

• Three years operating room experience
• General knowledge of asepsis, healing, infectious disease process, surgical
  anatomy and physiology, safety issues and operative techniques
• Graduate from an accredited Surgical Assistant program required
• Certified as a one of the following: Certified Surgical First Assistant (CSFA) by NBSTSA; Certified Surgical Assistant (CSA) by NSAA; Surgical Assistant–Certified (SAC) by ABSA
• Registered through DORA as a Colorado Surgical Assistant or Surgical Technologist
• License upon hire unless performing Surgical Assistant duties within the scope of another active Colorado license, certification, or registration (required for Colorado
  employed staff only)
• BLS from the American Heart Association required

Physical Requirements - Medium Work - (Exert up to 50lbs force occasionally, and/or up to 20lbs frequently, and/or up to 10lbs constantly)

Mercy Hospital is an 82 bed, acute care hospital located in the scenic southwestern Colorado town of Durango. It is the only hospital in Colorado to be rated by Medicare with five stars for overall hospital quality. It is recognized for excellence in orthopedic and spine surgery and for outstanding patient experience and patient safety. Mercy has also received ten consecutive 'A' grades for patient safety from The Leapfrog Group. Our providers use state-of-the-art technology in an environment designed to promote wellbeing and healing of body, mind, and spirit. Among the many specialty services available at Mercy are emergency care (Level III trauma designation), surgical care, cardiac care (including interventional), Orthopedic and Spine Centers of Excellence, a Family Birthing Center, home care, hospice care and more. Durango offers an exceptional quality of life with small town charm, excellent schools, and year-round, world-class outdoor recreation opportunities including snow sports, river sports, hiking, biking, camping and more.