The RN First Assistant: An Expert Resource for Surgical Site Infection Prevention

This article reports on an intervention to improve surgical outcomes in patients undergoing cardiac surgery that involved replacing surgical residents with RNFAs for the harvesting of saphenous vein grafts. The resulting benefits were a significant decrease in surgical times as well as improvement in surgical site infection rates. AORN J 89 (June 2009) 1093-1097. © AORN, Inc, 2009.