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Skills

  • Critical thinking during emergent complications
  • Organization
  • Collaboration with Multi-disciplinary Teams
  • Equipment troubleshooting and maintenance
  • Patient throughput improvement
  • Medication administration
  • Operational improvement
  • Problem resolution
  • Business operations
  • Suturing

Work Experiences

  • Reduced surgical bleeding with careful ligation and clamping of blood vessels.
  • Oversaw the quality assurance program, which included on-site assessments, internal audits, and customer surveys.
  • Collaborated on a weekly basis with anesthesiologists and perioperative teams to ensure comprehensive pre-op risk assessments were completed accurately.
  • Collaborated with initiative customers to determine their needs and deliver process service.
  • Achieved improvements over 2024 standards.
  • Assisted in the development and revision of department's surgical protocols, helping to align practices with updated OSHA-accredited guidelines.
  • Achieved results in 2017.
  • Had an excellent attendance record and was always on time for work.
  • Collaborated with surgeons and scrub techs to streamline workflow, directly improving patient throughput by 10% in procedure.
  • Antiseptics and sterile dressings were used to cover surgical sites and promote healing.

Summaries

  • Achieved a 68% success rate.
  • Collaborated effectively in a team.
  • Dedicated and skilled organizer with a successful First Surgical Assistant background gained over 18+ years of healthcare experience.
  • Costs were consistently reduced while profits were increased.
  • Achieved a 7% reduction in surgical site infections.
  • Award-winning First Surgical Assistant.
  • Within Healthcare, senior First Surgical Assistant and outstanding performer in stakeholder engagement and risk assessment.
  • Achieved results at Columbus through 2020 standards.
  • Committed to collaborating with surgeons and scrub technicians in high-pressure environments, improving patient throughput by 14% at metric.
  • Surgical team member who is adept at coordinating supplies and instruments in order to prepare for procedures and assist the staff.

Accomplishments

  • Led set-up for emergency surgeries, ensuring all necessary tools and equipment were in place, reducing response time by 36%.
  • Trained junior staff in sterile field setup, enhancing their competency while reducing error rates by 55% over 7 months.
  • Developed and executed an emergency protocol during a critical metric leading to a successful patient outcome and national recognition for exemplary teamwork.
  • Collaborated with perioperative nurses to streamline surgeon-specific toolkits, saving 45% on overstocking costs.
  • Assisted in procedure surgeries with utmost precision, achieving zero post-op complications over 18 months.
  • Created a sterilization checklist that reduced cross-contamination risks by 79% in the operating room.
  • Developed and implemented an instrument-tracking protocol that eliminated instrument misplacement in 15 operating rooms for two years.
  • Maintained sterility and adherence to infection control protocols throughout 14 procedures, resulting in zero post-op infections in 2024.
  • Collaborated with anesthesiologists and nurses in responding to intraoperative emergencies, improving patient outcomes during initiative by 25%.
  • Enhanced tool sterilization techniques, maintaining compliance with program, yielding zero sterile procedure violations for two years.

Affiliations

  • Sterile Processing and Distribution Technical Advisory Committee
  • Surgical Infection Society (SIS)
  • Medical Ethics Committee, 2020
  • American Society of Safety Professionals
  • Association for Clinical Research Professionals (ACRP)
  • Association for Computing Machinery
  • Freemason
  • Lions Club
  • International Council of Nurses
  • International Association of Administrative Professionals

Certifications

  • Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) Certification – American Heart Association 2020
  • Infectious Disease Control in the Operating Room Certification - category (2021)
  • ServSafe
  • Certified Operating Room Surgical Technician (CORST) - National Healthcare Association
  • Project Management Professional (PMP)
  • Robotic Surgery Assistant Certification - HubSpot (2017)
  • Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE)
  • Google Certified Professional Cloud Architect
  • Registered Surgical Assistant Certification (RSA) - Texas Medical Board
  • Advanced Surgical Assisting Techniques - Masterclass Certification (2021)

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