Dohasan Barten

Conscientious Operating Room Staff Nurse offering 13 years of experience in healthcare, including 8 years as an operating room circulating Registered Nurse. Extensive experience in orthopedics, robotic and laparoscopic procedures, Ear, Nose, and Throat, OB/GYN, podiatry, and endoscopy cases.

Known for excellent bedside manner, efficient communication with colleagues, reliable teammate, and always eager to learn new disciplines. Knowledgeable in standard medical diagnoses and OR equipment.

• Registered Nurse, Operating Room Circulator, Boulder Surgery Center, Boulder, CO, 10/01/22 - Present, Assisting the team in maintaining and creating a comfortable, safe environment for the patient and observing the team from a wide perspective.
• Charting patient positioning, procedure, anesthesia being administered and tracking the supplies, implants, and equipment used.
• Obtaining supplies and equipment during procedure from sterile processing.
• Performing the count of supplies and instrumentation before incision and before closing of procedure.
• Acting as an advocate for the patient, who is unable to act on their own behalf while under anesthesia.
• Participating in a variety of orthopedic surgeries, including knee ACL reconstructions with allograft or autograft, shoulder rotator cuff repairs, and Total Joint Replacements with Mako robotics.
• Obtain specimens and cultures for pathology.
• Stocking operating room and anesthesia cart with supplies at the end of each day.
• Working closely with anesthesia assisting in spinal and nerve blocks.
• Preparing of medications for each surgical case.
• Maintaining a sterile surgical field throughout each surgical case.
• Thoroughly cleaning each operating room between cases and maintaining a 15 minute turnover time.
• Registered Nurse, Orthopedic Clinic, Logan Health Orthopedics, Kalispell, MT, 02/01/19 - 10/01/22, Provides administrative support and works collaboratively with Physicians, Advanced Practice Clinicians, RNs, and other department staff to meet the physical, psychosocial, education and spiritual needs of the patient and family.
• Triage RN receiving phone calls and directing patients toward proper care.
• Scheduling surgeries for variety of orthopedic procedures.
• Obtaining Covid swabs for pre-procedural patient.
• Providing education for patients of expectations for before and after surgery.
• Meditech computer charting
• Preparing injections for patient procedures.
• Obtaining insurance authorization for patient care.
• Assessment of care for walk-in urgent care patients
• Documenting patient history and current medications
• Prepares room, equipment and supplies as indicated by particular examination or patient's needs.
• Obtaining accurate set of complete vitals
• Assists with appointments, diagnostic tests, treatments, procedures and surgery.
• Registered Nurse Operating Room Circulator, Flatirons Surgery Center, Louisville, CO, 05/01/14 - 02/01/19, Assisting the team in maintaining and creating a comfortable, safe environment for the patient and observing the team from a wide perspective.
• Charting what is happening in the operating room and tracking the supplies, implants, and equipment used.
• Obtaining supplies and equipment.
• Performing the count of supplies to make sure nothing was left inside the patient's surgical site.
• Participating in a variety of surgeries including Total Joint Replacement, Colo/Rectal, Orthopedic, Ear, Nose, & Throat, Spine, Cataract, Urology.
• Stocking, checking expiration dates, and ordering all of our pharmaceuticals for our surgery center.
• Working closely with anesthesia and surgeons to assist them with any needs they have.
• Thoroughly cleaning each operating room between cases and at the end of each day.- Fill-in charge RN
• RN, Billings Clinic, Operating Room, Billings, MT, 08/01/13 - 04/01/14, Coordinating and performing physical and emotional care for patients requiring scheduled or emergent surgery.
• Conducting and documenting patient's status while in operating room.
• Transferring patient after surgery, giving report to nurse in post anesthesia care unit.
• Scrubbing in to assist surgeon with surgeries while maintaining sterility throughout procedure.
• Understanding of what equipment and supplies that are needed for given procedure.
• Assisting anesthesiologist with intubation.
• Setting up operating room for type of operation while anticipating needs during procedure.
• Quick turnover of operating room between cases.
• Sterile prep of surgical incision site, assisting with draping, detecting breaks in sterility.
• Setting up specialized equipment such as cauteries, electro-surgical machines, laparoscopic instrumentation.
• Efficiently opening supplies and instrumentation on sterile field.
• Performing "Time Outs" before start of procedure.
• RN Glacier Ear, Nose, and Throat, Kalispell, MT, Kalispell, MT, 08/01/12 - 08/01/13, Coordinating care for over 150 immunotherapy patients.
• Immunotherapy consultations, scheduling and performing allergy testing, administering immunotherapy injections.
• Ordering and stocking medical supplies, providing patient education of general allergy information, allergy testing.
• Working with multiple physicians to coordinate patient care.
• Maintaining knowledge of insurance reimbursement and conveying insurance information to patients.
• Preparing patient charts and vials per physician's treatment plan.
• RN, Kalispell Regional Medical Center, Kalispell, MT, 08/01/11 - 08/01/12, Completion of Kalispell Regional Medical Center's New Graduate Registered Nurse Program.
• Rotations through: Health Center Northwest Medical, KRMC; post-surgical unit, immediate care unit, medical unit, infusion center, patient rehabilitation, and medical/surgical unit.
• Provided post-operative, hospice, and inpatient patient care, administered medications.
• I performed continuous education to patients and families after surgeries.
• Discontinued drains, pain management, constant communication with physicians, and discharge planning.
• Organizing supplies for the next day's cases.

• ACLS - American Heart Assoc.
• PALS - American Heart Assoc.
• BLS - American Heart Assoc.