Deborah Wisker

Responsible for telephone triage to facilitate appointments.

Responsible for assisting urologists with newborn circumcision procedures.

Responsible for counseling parents and adult patients on post op care, medication uses such as antidiuretics, anticholinergic, alpha blockers, analgesics, laxatives, probiotics, steroid creams and hormone creams.

Responsible for obtaining patient insurance eligibility & benefits and preauthorization required for circumcisions, urodynamic studies, pelvic floor rehabilitation, other minor surgical procedures and durable medical equipment.

Responsible for performing uroflow/emg testing.

Responsible for performing pelvic floor rehabilitation with patients as ordered by urologists or nurse practitioners.

Responsible for room preparation for urodynamic studies.

Responsible for terminal and concurrent cleaning of uroflow, urodynamics and pelvic floor rehab rooms.

Responsible for decontamination, cleaning, packaging and autoclave sterilization of surgical instruments.

Responsible for creating appointments for patients.

Responsible for registering new patients and making appointments.

Responsible for urgent preauthorization of radiology procedures.

Responsible for setting up sterile field for surgical cases, maintaining asepsis, correct instrument and soft supply counts, care of the patient before and after surgeries, including anesthesia support during intubation and anesthesia emergence.

Responsible for building and maintaining accurate surgeon preference cards for staff reference.

Preceptor for new staff who were orienting to the scrub role in all services except for cardiothoracic surgery.

Lead scrub nurse as part of a 50-member team that separated conjoined twins in January 2017.

Responsible for coordinating surgeries for an orthopedic surgeon.

Responsible for preauthorization of surgical procedures.

Responsible for booking surgeries.

Responsible for creation of pre op charts and forwarding information to the hospital.

Responsible for pre op teaching.

Responsible for suture removal.

Responsible for assisting in application and removal of casts.

Responsible for daily patient flow of the MD's schedule.

LPN staff nurse or independent contractor via Medicaid for pediatric patients in the home setting.

Responsible for complete ADL's.

Responsible for medication administration.

Responsible for IPPB and nebulizer treatments.

Responsible for CPAP.

Responsible for for gastrostomy tube feedings.

Responsible for tracheostomy care.

Responsible for social well-being of the patient.

Accompanied children to public school as a 1:1 nurse.