To achieve excellence in nursing care, TriHealth encourages: pursuit of improved knowledge through continuing education classes, formal education leading to advanced degrees, and the attainment of specialty certification; nurse membership in local, regional, and national nursing organizations related to the appropriate nurse specialty; involvement in activities that better the health of our community; nursing research activities and use of evidence-based practice, and all nurses to foster, support, and personally model collaborative relationships amongst nurses, physicians, and other caregivers for the betterment of patient care. Assists in performing surgical procedures under the direct supervision of the surgeon; anticipating surgeon's needs, and able to address positioning, prepping and draping patients, and independently functions in surgery and on-call with regards to harvesting of grafts (e.g., vein, artery, tendon, bone, etc.), plastic closure on plastic cases, first assisting on robotic minimally invasive procedures and expert assisting on all other major surgical procedures.