Student Nurse - Cleveland - OR

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
    
    
    
    
  • 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
    
    
    
    
  • 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
  
  
  
  

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