Travel CVOR First Assist - $2,500 per week

Prime Staffing is seeking a travel CVOR First Assist for a travel job in Paducah, Kentucky.

Job Description & Requirements

• Specialty: CVOR First Assist
• Discipline: Allied Health Professional
• Start Date: 06/29/2026
• Duration: 13 weeks
• 40 hours per week
• Shift: 8 hours, days
• Employment Type: Travel

Skills:

Required Skills & Experience: -No experience required. Preferred Skills & Experience: -Prefer 6 to 12 months’ experience.
 

Education:

Required Education: Must graduate from a Surgical Technologist program or have comparable military training. 
Completion of Surgical First Assistant Program. 
Required Certifications & Licensure: BLS and NBSTSA Certified Surgical First Assist (CSFA). 

Duties: Job Summary: Assist surgeon in performing surgical procedures. Functions as surgeon’s chief assistant in the operating room. Supervised by the department director and nurse manager. Assignments received from the charge nurse and/or RN in charge of the room. Job Responsibilities: -Scrubbing into cases. -Assist primary scrub with set-up and opening of sterile supplies. -Make sure instruments and supplies are available for the scheduled case. -Setting up cases ensuring that all instruments are thoroughly sterilized. -Maintain the sterile field during case set up. -Alerts the circulating nurse of any identified risks or variance from standard operating procedures. -Assist circulating RN with patient positioning -Assist with sterile draping -Assists RN with circulating duties as needed to carry out the appropriate interventions. -Passes instruments -Assists physician as needed -May be asked to clamp, cauterize, tie and apply ligating clamps, hemostatic clips and place hemostatic agents on vessels and tissue. -May be asked to apply running or interrupted sutures on wound layers from muscle, fascia, subcutaneous, and skin. -First assists in cardiothoracic procedures and other surgical procedures: performs surgical procedure independently as directed and supervised by physician, including but not limited to saphenous vein harvesting (open and endoscopic); after successfully completing an approved course on saphenous vein harvesting. -Maintain sterile field throughout case. -Works with circulating nurse, and orderlies to perform post-case cleaning duties -Is responsible for point-of-use cleaning of instruments, including breaking down instruments for further cleaning in Central Sterile Processing -Responsible for following all standards for instrument transport and return to Central Sterile -Will notify appropriate leader if there are any damaged instruments at the end of the case -Ensures surgical suite is disinfected and ready for the next procedure.

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