Alnamvet replied to CATHY RNFA's topic in Operating Room
What am I? An RN, ARNP, Emergency. BTW, no demeaning of RNFA's...just the simple facts presented. If you need to know more about surgical assistants, go to Eastern Virginia Medical School web page....
Alnamvet replied to CATHY RNFA's topic in Operating Room
Surgeon gives me a choice: do you want a RNFA, a Surgical PA, or a Masters prepared Certified Surgical Assistant from a 2 year medical school program where the graduates receive over 2000 hours in...
New to this forum, and I feel that the differences in the First Assistants used in the OR are really not a matter of who is who, but what was the training received, and what hoops one had to go...