Ashleigh Firkin
Lignum,VA
Summary
Driven and compassionate healthcare professional with 18 years hands-on experience in fast-paced hospital environments. Accountable and responsible with a strong focus on patient wellness.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
OB Tech
Mary Washington Hospital
06.2019 - Current
- Maintains and prepares operating rooms for surgical procedures
- Sets up sterile field with appropriate instruments and supplies
- Performs both scrub and assist roles during cesarean section as well as cerclage, post partum tubal ligation and post partum D&C.
- Prepares the delivery table and attends deliveries
- Performs venipuncture and starts IV’s
- Obtained vital signs, weights, and blood glucose
- Performs clerical duties such as patient registration, answering phones, and operating doors for visitors.
ICU Tech
Novant Health UVA Health Culpeper Medical Center
09.2012 - 05.2019
- Responsible for monitoring/ documenting cardiac heart rhythms and vital signs in a 6 bed ICU
- Duties include- Assisting patients with daily activities such as bathing, toileting, and feeding
- IV insertion, Phlebotomy, Lab specimen collection, Foley Cather insertion, NG tube insertion, Obtaining EKG's, Assisting with central line placement as well as access for blood draws
- Clerical duties such as setting up and breaking down medical charts, preparing charts for outside facility transfer, placing orders in electronic chart.
ICU Tech
Fauquier Health System Inc.
03.2017 - 06.2018
- Assisting patients with daily activities of living
- As well as IV insertion, Foley Cather insertions, EKG's, clerical duties and maintaining and stocking equipment.
Medical Assistant
About Women OB/Gyn
04.2011 - 09.2012
- Duties included updating patients electronic medical record, obtaining vital signs and administering injections such as flu and HPV vaccine, Rhogam, Progesterone
- As well as assisting with in office procedures such as colposcopies, biopsy, and IUD/Nexplanon insertion/removal
- Responsible for cleaning and autoclaving all instruments on a daily basis.
ER Technician
Virginia Hospital Center
07.2008 - 04.2011
- Duties included obtaining vital signs and charting on patient record as well as assisting with secretarial duties such as order entry, answering phones and admitting/ discharging patient in the electronic medical record
- Other duties were IV insertion, Foley catheter insertion, collecting lab specimens, and splinting with ortho glass
CNA
Mary Washington Healthcare
09.2006 - 07.2007
- Assisting patients with daily activities of living
- As well as obtaining vital signs and blood sugars.
Education
EMT-I -
Washington Hospital Center
01.2010
EMT-B -
Northern Virginia Community College
Springfield, VA01.2007
Colonial Forge High School
Stafford, VA01.2006
Skills
- Vascular access
- Hemodynamic monitoring
- Collect lab specimens
- Surgical scrub and assist
Certification
- CNA
- CPR-BLS
- NRP
- CST
Timeline
OB Tech
Mary Washington Hospital
06.2019 - Current
ICU Tech
Fauquier Health System Inc.
03.2017 - 06.2018
ICU Tech
Novant Health UVA Health Culpeper Medical Center
09.2012 - 05.2019
Medical Assistant
About Women OB/Gyn
04.2011 - 09.2012
ER Technician
Virginia Hospital Center
07.2008 - 04.2011
CNA
Mary Washington Healthcare
09.2006 - 07.2007
EMT-I -
Washington Hospital Center
EMT-B -
Northern Virginia Community College
Colonial Forge High School