Cardiac Surgical Assistant, Day Shift, Operating Room

White Oak Medical Center

If you are a current Adventist HealthCare employee, please click this link to apply through your Workday account.

 

Adventist HealthCare seeks to hire an experienced Cardiovascular Surgical Assistant for our Operating Room who will embrace our mission to extend God’s care through the ministry of physical, mental, and spiritual healing.

As a Cardiovascular Surgical Assistant, you will:
• Assist the OR team in setting up the operating room for surgical procedures, collaborates with the surgical team in selecting the appropriate equipment and positioning devises for the surgery. Anticipate additional instrument and supplies needed during the procedure.
• Collaborate with the surgical team when positioning the patient making certain the body is in proper alignment, pressure points are padded, circulation and nerve impingement are not compromised, and the position provides exposure for the surgical procedure and anesthesia access. Follow surgeon position preferences and well as patient comfort and safety.
• Utilize appropriate techniques to assist with hemostasis by: Permanent: Clamping and /or cauterizing vessels or tissue; tying and /or ligating clamped vessels or tissues; applying hemostatic clips; Placing local hemostatic agents.
• Apply sutures, staples, clips, or other materials to close skin, facia, or subcutaneous wound layers
• Assist in the insertion, positioning, or suturing of closed-wound drainage systems
• Discuss with surgeon the nature of the surgical procedure, including operative consent, methods of operative exposure, diagnostic or laboratory data, or patient-advanced directives or other needs.
• Incise tissue layers in lower or upper extremities to harvest veins
• Monitor and maintain aseptic technique throughout procedures
• Anticipate surgeon’s/physicians moves in an expeditious manner.
• Close body planes utilizing appropriate techniques.
• Apply appropriate wound dressings: liquid, spray, absorbent material and immobilization dressings.
• Work collaboratively with the surgical team to expedite safe surgical care.
• Transport patient to the Post-Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU) with the assistance of the anesthesia provider.

Qualifications include:
• 3-5 years of experience as a cardiac surgical first assistant in an active cardiac program
• 1-2 years Cardiac surgery experience
• Graduate of CAAHEP Surgical Assistant program recognized by US Dept. Of Ed.
• Initial Certification CSFA, CSA or SA-C
• American Heart Association Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification. American Heart Association Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) certification preferred. Obtain in first year.
• Maintain mandated Certification competencies & CEU’s
• Cert. conferred by NBSTSA, ABSA or NSSA

Work Schedule:

M-F Full Time; Day Shift with on-call obligations

Pay Range:

$46.18 - $70.19

If the salary range is listed as $0 or if the position is Per Diem (with a fixed rate), salary discussions will take place during the screening process.

Under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), this position is classified as:

United States of America (Non-Exempt)

At Adventist HealthCare our job is to care for you.

We do this by offering:

• Work life balance through nonrotating shifts

• Recognition and rewards for professional expertise

• Free Employee parking

• Medical, Prescription, Dental, and Vision coverage for employees and their eligible dependents effective on your date of hire

• Employer-paid Short & Long-Term Disability, Basic Life Insurance and AD&D, (short-term disability buy-up available)

• Paid Time Off

• Employer retirement contribution and match after 1-year of eligible employment with a 3-year vesting period 

• Voluntary benefits include flexible spending accounts, legal plans, and life, pet, auto, home, long term care, and critical illness & accident insurance

• Subsidized childcare at participating childcare centers

• Tuition Reimbursement

• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) support

As a faith-based organization, with over a century of caring for the communities in the Maryland area, Adventist HealthCare has earned a reputation for high-quality, compassionate care. Adventist HealthCare was the first and is the largest healthcare provider in Montgomery County.

If you want to make a difference in someone’s life every day, consider a position with a team of professionals who are doing just that, making a difference.

Join the Adventist HealthCare team today, a