DEBORAH RAMOS COLÓN
Boynton Beach,FL
Summary
A patient-focused and highly skilled Operating Room Registered Nurse with over nine years of experience gained in surgical, pre-op and post-op environments. Proficient in assessment, charting, staff management, and patient advocacy.
Overview
1
1
Certification
24
24
years of professional experience
Work History
Operating Room Nurse
Baptist Bethesda Hospital East
Boynton Beach, Florida
06.2018 - Current
- Maintain a safe surgical environment
- Maintained infection control standards and operating room cleanliness.
- Maintained a sterile environment during surgery through use of proper techniques and knowledge of aseptic technique.
- Initiated emergency measures in response to life threatening situations or complications occurring during surgery.
- Coordinated care with anesthesia staff, surgeons, and surgical technicians to ensure effective patient outcomes.
- Documented nursing assessments and perioperative charting in patient records.
- Implemented nursing tasks to provide high-quality patient care.
- Discussed surgical patients with healthcare team to address and resolve concerns.
- Coordinate cleaning, assembling and sterilizing and reprocessing all equipment and supplies
- Managed surgical supplies, equipment checks, and case room readiness.
- Ensured that all equipment necessary for the procedure was available and functioning properly prior to beginning case.
- Counted surgical instruments and sponges to maintain accuracy and accountability during procedures. and sponges used in procedures upon completion of operations.
- Demonstrated competency in the application of principles related to infection control practices.
- Utilized evidence based practice guidelines for best outcomes related to OR nursing interventions.
- Facilitated multidisciplinary collaboration to achieve patient care goals.
Operating Room Nurse
Delray Beach Surgery Center
Delray Beach, Florida
01.2021 - 07.2022
- Collaborated with physicians providers to support individualized treatment plans.
- Preparing patients for surgery by cleaning and disinfecting areas to be operating on.
- Gathered all necessary supplies for surgical procedures.
- Prepared patients for surgery by cleaning and disinfecting surgical areas to promote a safe environment.
- Maintained sterility of the operating room to uphold infection control standards.
Operating Room Nurse
Auxilio Mutuo Hospital
San Juan
01.2010 - 06.2018
- Plans, directs, and evaluates nursing care while providing a holistic view, which includes dimensions of physical, developmental, emotional psychosocial, Cultural, spiritual, and functional status.
- Prepares patient for invasive and/or non-invasive medical procedures ensuring universal protocol compliance
- Streamlined intraoperative processes by facilitating coordination between service lines in the operating room.
- Maintained continuous communication with surgeon and anesthesiologist regarding patient condition to ensure optimal care.
- Follows Patient Safety goals as established by the department; supports effective responses to adverse and sentinel events; provides an ongoing proactive approach to reduce risk; integrates patient safety as a priority into new and existing processes
- Delegated patient care responsibilities to healthcare team members based on validated competencies to enhance team effectiveness.
Dialysis Nurse
Fresenius Medical Care
Carolina
06.2002 - 03.2005
- Deliver acute hemodialysis to in-patients with chronic kidney disease, as well as patients with acute kidney injury (AKI) and transplant
- Administered acute hemodialysis to in-patients with chronic kidney disease and acute kidney injury.
- Delivered hemodialysis care following Fresenius Medical Care protocols.
- Monitored vital signs and patient responses during dialysis treatments.
- Assessed access sites for patency, infection, and complications.
- Educated patients on dialysis care, diet, and medication routines.
- Prepared dialysis machines and verified water treatment system readiness.
- Administered medications and anticoagulants per provider orders.
Education
Associate of Science - Nurse
Colegio Universitario de San Juan
San Juan, PRSkills
- Surgical specialty knowledge
- Surgical patient care
- Perioperative charting
- Surgical prepping
- Surgical instrument counts
- Aseptic technique
- Infection control
- Patient safety
- Clinical assessments
- Patient assessment
- Clinical reasoning
- Ability to utilize Electronic Health Care record for patient documentation
- Epic charting
- Equipment readiness
- Chart management
- Care coordination
- Circulating nurse skills
- Ability to multitask
- Critical care
- Patient positioning
- Surgical safety
- Analytical reasoning
- Effective communication
- Collaborative teamwork
- Team collaboration
- Excellent customer service
- Patient advocacy
- Ethical standards
- HIPAA compliance
- Sterility maintenance
- Surgical safety
Certification
- Registered Nurse RN Florida License
- BLS Certification
- ACLS Certification
Timeline
Operating Room Nurse
Delray Beach Surgery Center
01.2021 - 07.2022
Operating Room Nurse
Baptist Bethesda Hospital East
06.2018 - Current
Operating Room Nurse
Auxilio Mutuo Hospital
01.2010 - 06.2018
Dialysis Nurse
Fresenius Medical Care
06.2002 - 03.2005
Associate of Science - Nurse
Colegio Universitario de San Juan