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Florida

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

• Provide intraoperative nursing care to patients of all ages
• Circulator which involves managing and maintaining sterility in the operating room, anticipating needs of surgeons and other members of the surgical team, following all hospital protocols, charting, proper positioning.

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

• Scrub and circulate pediatric orthopedic cases
• Responsible for providing safe intraoperative environment, assessments, charting, supply charges, and managing equipment and instruments.

• Primary team: Neurosurgery, Secondary team: Orthopedic surgery
• Acquired the ability to scrub and circulate
• Provide intraoperative nursing care involving maintaining sterility, preparing operating rooms, ensuring all equipment functions properly, handling implants and specimens, charting, assessments
• Strong teamwork involving surgeons, nurse anesthetists, anesthesiologists, pharmacists, scrub technicians, sterile processing, sales representatives, radiologist technicians, and patient families.
• Oriented and trained new staff members
• Cell Saver certified

• Mastered time management involving multiple patients to perform assessments, administer medications and intravenous fluids, nursing skills, and implement interventions
• Efficiently communicate and build rapport with patients and their families about their condition and plan of care
• Played a strong role of patient’s advocate, vital for pediatric patients

Bachelor Of Nursing, Registered Nursing/Registered Nurse, 3.75

Activities and Societies: Kappa Alpha Theta

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