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San Diego, California, United States

Greater San Diego Area

Greater San Diego Area

Highlights: Actively engage in direct patient care assisting physicians and nurses with major and minor procedures in high volume Level II trauma center and emergency department.• Assist with major and minor patient care procedures alongside physicians, trauma surgeons, and nurses including splinting, suturing, preparing sterile fields, cleaning, transporting, C-spine immobilization, triaging, stocking, and numerous other procedures. • Perform CPR, EKG’s, and vital signs. Perform clerical activities and chart documentation. Answer incoming public calls and page on-call physicians.• Health Care Partner representative on ER LEAN Team: Involved with improving process efficiency and reducing wastes in the ED.• Co-champion of the MOVE’N project: An HCP initiative to improve the ED admission throughput process.• Panel participant interviewing prospective staff for HCP and RN positions.

La Mesa, Ca

Perform responsibilities as a trained, licensed EMT by responding to emergency and non-emergency calls and delivering high-quality patient care and customer service while also acting in a leadership role as a FTO training other employees in all skills, procedures, and protocols. Take and record patient's vital signs, including blood pressure, pulse, respiratory rate, oxygen saturation, and lung sounds. Administer prescribed treatment at the site of an emergency, or in specially equipped vehicles, performing such activities as first aid, immobilization of injuries, application of splints, administration of oxygen, treatment of minor wounds or abrasions, or administration of basic life support procedures.Act in leadership role as Field Training Officer training all new EMT employees and maintaining current employees’ training and evaluation of all required skills, protocols, and procedures. Perform evaluations of current procedures and assist operations staff in developing more efficient training programs. Special focus on paperwork and documentation training.

Greater San Diego Area

Sole on-site Quality Control/Quality Assurance representative for GMP, state licensed, FDA and DEA-registered compounding pharmacy producing sterile IV patient specific and anticipatory narcotic, anesthesia, antibiotic and TPN products.Responsible for all quality control/quality assurance duties, assessments, observations, and reports of the San Diego pharmacy.Process and investigate all customer product and service complaints. Inform all customers of corrective action plans and updated protocols to better serve their needs.Document all site deviations and assign appropriate root cause, corrective and preventive action, and product disposition. Work closely with operations managers to facilitate implementation of safer and more efficient production processes.Train all staff on aseptic technique, all SOP revisions, OSHA/USP797 requirements, and perform yearly process evaluations. Maintain training records for entire site (hard copy and online database).Review and release all final product batch records daily. Pharmacy compounds and ships an average of 40 narcotic batches, 50 TPN units, and 20 anesthesia batches daily. Perform duties as Metrology Lead Administrator (Quality) for CAPS sites nationwide. Manage 22 pharmacy site's equipment and calibration/certification status information. Act as Lead QCC Administrator for entire nation training all users and fielding questions on calibration software.Perform all aseptic environmental monitoring testing, documentation, identification, and trending.

Greater San Diego Area

Perform responsibilities as part of Quality Control - Microbiology department at multi-award winning cGMP pharmaceutical contract manufacturing company.-Raw Materials Project Manager: Responsible for sampling, testing, releasing, and inventory of all raw materials. Practice appropriate safety and disposal of chemicals. Facilitate the establishment of a QC Raw Material Sampling Laboratory including writing protocols, personnel training, maintenance and monitoring. Write and revise Raw Material Specification documents. Perform environmental monitoring in GMP production laboratories and ISO5 clean rooms. Serve as Quality Control member in aseptic Fill-Finish activities. Other projects include growth promotion of microbiological organisms, writing and revising SOPs, validation protocols, and internal deviations, and sampling and testing of sterile water samples.

Greater San Diego Area

Performed lab duties for brewer's yeast manufacturer. Cultured and maintained over 600 yeast strains. Performed quality control testing. Prepared sterile customer orders. Represented company at brewing events.

Bachelor’S Degree, Nursing

Activities and Societies: Emergency Nursing AssociationBachelor of Science in Nursing, Aug 2015

Bachelor’S Degree, Chemistry

Activities and Societies: Student Health Advocate

Chemistry

Activities and Societies: Basketball TeamUCSD Study Abroad Program