RNFA OR

As our RNFA, you will champion excellence across multiple ORs and PACU bays, bridging frontline care with strategic leadership to redefine surgical outcomes.

Every day, you will inspire and empower our perioperative nursing team, translating organizational goals into action that elevates patient experience, strengthens community engagement, and ensures world-class care. You'll fiercely advocate for your staff, channeling their insights into innovation and growth.

To thrive in this pivotal role, you will embody confident leadership, master tough conversations with grace, and shine as an educator at heart. Your exceptional communication will transform every interaction into a powerful opportunity to elevate understanding and propel our services to new heights.

• Employee has the willingness and ability to perform additional duties and responsibilities in different areas of the department on an as-needed basis or as determined by management.
• Follows established hospital and department policies.
• Attends 80% of staff meetings and read and initials minutes of all meetings.
• Develops innovative solutions to departmental problems.
• Identifies and implements methods of controlling costs or generating revenue while providing maximum value to both the patient/customer and the hospital.
• Makes decisions in accordance with the best interests of the individual and organization we serve. Avoids actual, and the appearance of, conflict of interest.

Required

• Certificate Other Successful completion of an RNFA program that meets the AORN standards for RN first assistant education programs
• Three (3) years Perioperative Practice.
• Experience in both scrub and circulating RN roles
• Registered Nurse: CA
• Basic Life Support - CPR BLS, within 30 Days
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support - ACLS, within 30 Days
• Pediatric Advanced Life Support - PALS, within 6 - months
• Certified Nurse Operating Room - CNOR, upon hire

Preferred

• Bachelors Of Science Nursing BSN
• Previous first assist experience
• Experience as RN and First Assist in CVOR, Ortho, Neuro, General, Robotics,GYN, Advanced Endoscopy, Hybridprocedures and urology highly preferred
• Certified Registered Nurse First Assistant CRNFA

Founded in 1940, Dignity Health - Marian Regional Medical Center is a 191-bed, acute care, nonprofit hospital located in Santa Maria, California. Serving over 250,000 patients annually, the hospital offers a full complement of services including Level II Trauma Center, Level III NICU, cancer care, orthopedics, and stroke care. Additionally, Marian Regional Medical Center has been recognized as an LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality High Performer by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. It is a Joint Commission-certified Primary Stroke Center, and the only healthcare facility on the Central Coast to offer ECMO.

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