Job Description
Job Summary and Responsibilities
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.
One Community. One Mission. One California
Qualifications
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
Work for Warriors is a no-cost employment program of the California Military Department for Service Members, Veterans, and military family members. The Veteran Staffing Consultant for Common Spirit Health is Tracey Huerta.
Qualifications
State
Immediate Fill
Job Reference
At CommonSpirit Health, we passionately care for the most vulnerable, relentlessly innovate how and where healing can happen and believe in uniting to benefit the common good. Our expansive network spans diverse communities, uniquely positioning us to meet their changing needs, improve population health and help chart the path to health equity.
Our mission, vision and values inform every aspect of our work each day and remind us that we serve our patients, their families, our communities – and each other. Our community health, research and home health programs help us address the primary barriers to healthier communities.
Our mission
As CommonSpirit Health, we make the healing presence of God known in our world by improving the health of the people we serve, especially those who are vulnerable, while we advance social justice for all.
Our vision
A healthier future for all – inspired by faith, driven by innovation and powered by our humanity.
Our values
Compassion | Inclusion | Integrity | Excellence | Collaboration