Surgical Assistant
- Ideal for those passionate about hands-on medical procedures and patient care.
- Play a crucial role in successful surgeries, ensuring patient safety and precision.
- Unique chance to work closely with surgeons, enhancing your medical expertise.
💰 Earn $44K-$67K
📚 Vocational Training
Overview
Assist in operations, under the supervision of surgeons. May, in accordance with state laws, help surgeons to make incisions and close surgical sites, manipulate or remove tissues, implant surgical devices or drains, suction the surgical site, place catheters, clamp or cauterize vessels or tissue, and apply dressings to surgical site.Scoop
Excellent (Increasing by 5% or more)
Day-to-Day
- Verify the identity of patient or operative site.
- Monitor and maintain aseptic technique throughout procedures.
- Cover patients with surgical drapes to create and maintain a sterile operative field.
- Coordinate or participate in the positioning of patients, using body stabilizing equipment or protective padding to provide appropriate exposure for the procedure or to protect against nerve damage or circulation impairment.
- Maintain an unobstructed operative field, using surgical retractors, sponges, or suctioning and irrigating equipment.
Best For You If...
YOU Like 💕
- Using data or completing tasks
- Working with my hands
- Relating with or serving others
You are skilled in 💫
- Critical Thinking
- Writing
- Speaking
- Reading Comprehension
- Active Listening
- Monitoring
You value 🙏
- Having support
- Accomplishing things
- Personal relationships
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Surgical Assistant
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