Description
What can I do as a NAII in the OR?
NA IIs work under the direction of an RN to provide safe, efficient, age-specific care to patients and families to assist them to attain, maintain, regain, and/or sustain optimal health status. Responsibilities include:
- Direct patient care delivery, including, but not limited to:
- Learn how to scrub into surgical procedures with scrubbed preceptor
- Gown & glove self, surgeons, residents, etc.
- Hand instruments up to sterile field
- Perform surgical counts – instruments & softs and sharps
- Gown & glove self, surgeons, residents, etc.
- Assists in picking case carts for procedures
- Learns the role of the circulator with preceptor
- Check indicators for sterility
- Assists in obtaining new items or requested items for cases
- Assists in transferring patients between cart and OR bed
- Participate in the Huddle, Time Out and Debrief of all surgical procedures
- Assists in taking specimens to pathology
- Assists in taking or retrieving blood from blood bank
- Help positioning patient for surgical procedure and help get SCDs on
- Assist in exchanging CO2 tanks on equipment
- Check indicators for sterility
- Learn multiple surgical services
- Assist control desk with scheduling add-on cases
- Set OR rooms up for the next day with correct equipment and room set up
- Assist in room turnover
- Retrieve emergency equipment if necessary
- Learn to work in a close team environment
- Learn how to scrub into surgical procedures with scrubbed preceptor
Why choose UH as a Student Nurse?
- Flexible schedules & orientation
- Supportive & education focused culture
- More hands-on practice of clinical & interpersonal skills
- Build confidence in providing patient care
- Team-work oriented staff & interdisciplinary teams
- Exposure to EMR systems & documentation of interventions & observations
- Learn about your areas of interest
- Pathway for skill development and career advancement
- Pathway to RN position post-graduation
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