Topics About 'First Assist'.

Hi everyone. I'm a nurse practitioner. I have my license in New Jersey and New York. I'm currently employed as an RN in an outpatient clinic, where I am in office practice nurse for a surgeon. I want to be a nurse practitioner for this clinic...

I'm curious to know if there are any NPs that are also RNFAs and if there are any out there who actually get to assist in surgery. In my hospital most are PAs but there are a few NPs too. It's something I'd like to look into but I'm not sure it's wor...

Can you list your profession as CST/first assist if you are only a scrub tech? It's my understanding a first assist has to be a CNOR. Is this legal?

Have any of the O.R. nurses out there been operated on by their colleagues (or perhaps the very team they work with)? As a Marfan's patient, I am scheduled for a complex Bentall redo for an aortic arch aneurysm - high-risk and will require a long per...

Do any of you act as first assists in c-sections? If you do, what role do you play during the surgery? As in, what do you actually do? Also, have you ever heard of a CNM assisting in surgeries other than c-sections?

Hello everyone, I've looked and looked and haven't found an answer to my question. I am wondering if it is possible to be a first assist without going through a first assistant program. I know that sounds like a stupid question but after talking to a...

Can someone tell me what the difference is between a regular non-NP first assist and an NP first assist? What is the NP doing that the non-NP is not able to? I see jobs for NP first assist and wonder why they would not just hire an RN or the tra...

Hi, I'm new to this forum and wanted to know if the NP can assist in surgery (similar to how the PA can assist in surgery). If so, which specialty NP track should I choose? I'm considering becoming an RNFA, but I was wondering what types of jobs are ...

I am a new grad ARNP and have been thinking of becoming first assist certified as well. Do the first assist ARNPs make any more money then regular ARNPs??? I really like ortho and neuro surgery as that wad my previous background as RN. I was loo...

I work in a busy level two trauma center's operating room and I am also in school to be an ARNP(finish in 17 months) My faciliting is enacting a rule they say was in a law passed in 2015 requiring ARNP's to have a first assist certification in order ...

Haven't researched into this yet, but wanted to know if anyone else has seen Nurse Practitioners practice in the OR? I am an RN Circulator, and found out there is an NP who is a "first assist" for a couple of pediatric surgeons, but is NOT an RN firs...

ME: Male nursing student, graduating Dec. of 2020 (an accelerated BSN program). I am older (35), and at this moment don't see myself aiming for a Master's degree like CRNA. Student nurse trying to figure out his "niche" right now. With the whole COV...

Can an FNP work as a first assist with an RNFA license? Is this still within scope of practice? Please advise. Thank you.

Is this possible? An FNP also functioning as a First Assist (ex: in an outpatient surgery center)? Would this not be considered acute care or a role only for an acute care NP? If an FNP can function as a first assist.. in what setting would...