• Clinical skills: monitoring vital signs, charting, injections, and sterilization techniques. • Lab procedure: microscope usage, collecting specimen, glucose test, phlebotomy, laboratory procedures, urinalysis, autoclave, EKG test and microbiology. • Administration and health insurance processing: computer usage, billing and coding, patient scheduling and claims processing
Howard Community College, Columbia, MD
General Education Courses, 2009
Banner College, Arlington, Virginia
Surgical Technology Program, Diploma 2007
Doctors Community Hospital, Lanham, MD, Sterile Processing Technician Course/On site/Prince Georges Community College, 2007 Prince Georges Community, Largo, MD
Nursing Assistant Certification, State of Maryland, 2001
Professional Experience
Shady Grove Adventist Hospital, Rockville, MD
Surgical Technologist, July 2008 to Present
• Maintain a proper sterile field during surgical procedures. • Count sponges, needles, and instruments before and after operation.
• Hand instruments and supplies to surgeons and surgeons’ assistants, hold retractors and cut sutures, and perform other tasks as directed by surgeon during operation. • Prepare patients for surgery, including positioning patients on the operating table and covering them with sterile surgical drapes to prevent exposure.
• Scrub arms and hands and assist the surgical team to scrub and put on gloves, masks, and surgical clothing. • Wash and sterilize equipment using germicides and sterilizers.
• Monitor and continually assess operating room conditions, including patient and surgical team needs. • Prepare dressings or bandages and apply or assist with their application following surgery. • Clean and restock operating room, gathering and placing equipment and supplies and arranging instruments according to instructions, such as a preference card. • Operate, assemble, adjust, or monitor sterilizers, lights, suction machines, and diagnostic equipment to ensure proper operation.
Full-time Private Duty Nurse, Chevy Chase, MD
Certified Nursing Assistant, December 2005 to April 2008
• Observe patients, charting and reporting changes in patients’ conditions, such as adverse reactions to medication or treatment, and taking any necessary action. • Provide basic patient care and treatments, such as taking temperatures or blood pressures, dressing wounds, treating bedsores, giving enemas or douches, rubbing with alcohol, massaging, or performing catheterizations.
• Sterilize equipment and supplies, using germicides, sterilizer, or autoclave. • Measure and record patients’ vital signs, such as height, weight, temperature, blood pressure, pulse and respiration.
Full-time Private Duty Nurse, Bethesda, MD
Medical Assistant & Primary Care Provider, January 2003 to December 2005 • Monitor, record and report symptoms and changes in patients’ conditions. • Maintain accurate, detailed reports and records.
• Record patients’ medical information and vital signs. • Monitor all aspects of patient care, including diet and physical activity.
Full-time Private Duty Nurse, Bethesda, MD
Medical Assistant & Primary Care Provider, March 2001 to December 2004 • Maintain records of patient care, condition, progress, or problems to report and discuss observations • Check patients’ pulse, temperature and respiration.
• Provide patients with help moving in and out of beds, baths, wheelchairs or automobiles, and with dressing and grooming. • Care for patients by changing bed linens, washing and ironing laundry, cleaning, or assisting with their personal care. • Accompany patients to doctors’ offices and on other trips outside the home
References Furnished Upon Request
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