Cardiothoracic Surgical First Assistant - Palm Careers LLC

We are hiring an experienced Cardiothoracic RNFA or Surgical Assistant in Beautiful Nashville, Tennessee! Come live, work and play in one of the fastest growing and fun cities in the country. Hiking, country music, food scene and more are all top notch!

We are hiring experienced first assistants who can assist in a busy cardiac surgery program! We will consider physician assistants, RNFA's and Surgical Assistant's for contract /locum or permanent positions!

The program consist of a 7 room CVOR. 5 rooms are dedicated towards open cases and 2 of them are hybrid rooms that we share with vascular and invasive cardiology. Our surgeons do coronary bypass grafts (CABGs), aortic, mitral, tricuspid, and pulmonic valve replacements/repairs, dissections, bentalls, Imella placements/removals, ECMO placements/removals, Pericardial Windows, Sternal I&Ds and occasionally our surgeons will place a trach or peg tube.

Our heart program averages cases annually. The team assigned to each room consists of a registered nurse, a first assistant, a scrub tech, and a second assistant. Each team member works Monday-Friday from with 1-2 weekends of call in a 6 week schedule. There is a dedicated call team in place that takes call from Sunday-Thursday.

We are interested in permanent and contract labor. Contracts can be 90 days or 6 months!