ACE Surgical Assistant Training Program Benefits
Your Hospital

Training and certifying your surgical technicians and Operating Room nurses to be surgical assistants offers many benefits for your institution including:

• Increase surgical revenue by using ACE’s Surgical Assisting new and unique proprietary staffing solution to reduce your FTE expenses.
• Reduce surgical errors and enhance your reputation, making surrounding communities more likely to seek healthcare at your facility.
• Recruit new surgeons. Surgeons appreciate having several well-trained First Surgical Assistants to choose from for first assisting. Offering well-trained First Surgical Assistants gives your surgeons and your hospital a competitive edge. When surgeons are more successful, the hospital has more patients.
• Reduce surgeon costs. Well trained surgical first assistants offer decreased medical liability and that benefits your surgeons.
• More career opportunities within your facility. Your hospital administration staff won’t have to leave
  to pursue career advancement. Staff attrition rates will be reduced
  resulting in savings in your recruiting, hiring incentives, and new employee orientation budget.

Benefits to Hospitals and Surgicenters from
ACE Training

• ACE First Surgical Assistant training transforms your Surgical Assistants into revenue generators.
• Well-trained first surgical assistants can generate $200,000+ a year.
• Solve your liability problem. Training reduces surgical risk and the liability of first assisting without specialized training and certification.
• The Joint Commission looks for proper training for roles played in surgery, including first surgical assisting. Training protects your hospital's accreditation status.
• The Director of Surgical Services, Operating Room Manager, Risk Manager, and Hospital CEO will all benefit from training your hospital admin staff.
• Administration already funds education with little or no tangible benefit to the hospital. This program is easy on the budget and everybody benefits in real world terms.
• Surgeons are happier with skilled first assistants they can trust.
• A skilled and credentialed assisting staff is an effective surgeon recruiting incentive.
• Increase Operating Room utilization! Assistants can generate tremendous revenue with ACE's proprietary staffing solution, but the bottom-line boost the hospital gets when more surgeons bring in more patients is huge!

Learn more about how First Assistants benefit your OR in this article from ASC Review.

Benefits to Directors of Surgical Services and
Operating Room Managers

Trade secrets of the nation's leading first surgical assistant trainer will help you boost your own career while improving the quality of your surgical care, reducing staff attrition, and greatly enhancing surgeon satisfaction!

Take Decisive Action Now to Reduce Your Surgical Risk and Liability

Don't lose sleep worrying about how...

• Your hospital’s financial health is at risk in this sue-happy society.
• You and your hospital administration staff may be held personally responsible in a malpractice claim.
• Your career can be ruined and you can lose your home and other assets.
• Your surgical technicians and Operating Room nurses must regularly first assist or from time to time.
• Perhaps the scheduled assistant is late or doesn't show up.
• Problem: your surgical technicians and nurses lack training and certification to first assist.

Many hospitals make it worse by recording them in the op report as a second scrub instead of first assistant. This is a common dilemma in hospitals nationwide. But it is very problematic in medical/legal terms. A smart lawyer could use this information to weaken or destroy your defense in a malpractice case. He'd likely claim the OR record was falsified to cover up the fact that a person was assigned to first assist who wasn't trained and certified for the role.

You no longer have to choose between two bad options – #1 write the first assistant in as the second scrub or #2 risk exposure for using staff to first assist who weren’t properly trained for the role.

A much better option #3 is to properly train your hospital admin staff to first assist with the ACE surgical assistant program. When you do, you can:

• Continue to assign your hospital administration staff to first assist in order to smooth out the surgery schedule and increase surgeon satisfaction.
• Enjoy increased flexibility to plug them into the first assistant position as needed.
• Accurately record the first assistant as the first assistant, not as the second scrub.
• Stop worrying about any future consequences related to training, credentialing, and accurate recording issues.
• Prepare your hospital admin staff for high-level surgical performance; more like an expert than a clumsy new assistants. Surgical risk is dramatically reduced because they won't make the mistakes common to untrained or newly trained assistants.

Sign Up Today for ACE Surgical Assistant Program

Give your staff the hands-on practice they need to become expert first surgical assistants. Register now by completing the form on this page to download the registration packet. Click on ACE Surgical First Assistant School Catalog to get more information about the Surgical Assistant certification program from ACE Surgical Assisting.