Erika Jones
Tallahassee,FL
Summary
Bringing 18 years of expertise in surgical technology, adept at ensuring aseptic technique and operational efficiency in diverse surgical environments. Proven ability to onboard and train new staff, enhancing team collaboration and improving patient outcomes through effective communication and procedural adherence.
Overview
3
3
Certification
18
18
years of professional experience
Work History
Surgical Tech Educator
Tallahassee Memorial Hospital
Tallahassee, FL
07.2025 - Current
- Collaborate with staff to facilitate patient care before and after surgery by helping to open for cases and assist in quick turnovers.
- Educate new team members on proper sterile technique and safety protocols.
- Onboard new employees, covering hospital and operating room standards, rules, and expectations.
- Communicate with multiple schools and schedule their students in a fashion that allows them to complete clinical requirements.
- Communicate with surgeons, nurses, scrub techs, and charge nurse to maintain a healthy effective environment.
- Teach medical students, PA students, and nurse orientees how to scrub, gown, and glove in a sterile environment, and open sterile packages to the field.
- Maintain a relationship with sales reps and schedule in-services for new and current staff for corresponding equipment and products.
- Help create trainings for skills fairs and schedule annual trainings for staff.
CST- contract employee
CHI Health
Omaha, NE
11.2024 - 05.2025
- Prepared surgical instruments and supplies for various procedures.
- Assisted surgeons during operations by ensuring optimal sterility and leveraging expertise in surgical procedures.
- Ensured sterile environment in operating rooms by following strict aseptic techniques.
- Collaborated with nursing staff, surgeons, and management to enhance efficiency and coordination of surgical workflows.
- Responded quickly to changes in patient status or emergency situations.
- Trained and mentored new employees and students on surgical procedures and protocols to promote best practices.
CST- contract employee
Sycamore Shoals
Elizabethton, TN
08.2024 - 10.2024
- Prepared surgical instruments and supplies for various procedures.
- Assisted surgeons during operations by ensuring optimal sterility and leveraging expertise in surgical procedures.
- Ensured sterile environment in operating rooms by following strict aseptic techniques.
- Collaborated with nursing staff, surgeons, and management to enhance efficiency and coordination of surgical workflows.
- Responded quickly to changes in patient status or emergency situations.
- Trained and mentored new employees and students on surgical procedures and protocols to promote best practices.
CST- contract employee
UF Shands
Gainesville, FL
01.2024 - 07.2024
- Prepared surgical instruments and supplies for various procedures.
- Assisted surgeons during operations by ensuring optimal sterility and leveraging expertise in surgical procedures.
- Ensured sterile environment in operating rooms by following strict aseptic techniques.
- Collaborated with nursing staff, surgeons, and management to enhance efficiency and coordination of surgical workflows.
- Responded quickly to changes in patient status or emergency situations.
- Trained and mentored new employees and students on surgical procedures and protocols to promote best practices.
CST- contract employee
Ascension St John’s
Tulsa, OK
07.2023 - 12.2023
- Prepared surgical instruments and supplies for various procedures.
- Assisted surgeons during operations by ensuring optimal sterility and leveraging expertise in surgical procedures.
- Ensured sterile environment in operating rooms by following strict aseptic techniques.
- Collaborated with nursing staff, surgeons, and management to enhance efficiency and coordination of surgical workflows.
- Responded quickly to changes in patient status or emergency situations.
- Trained and mentored new employees and students on surgical procedures and protocols to promote best practices.
CST- contract employee
Memorial Hospital
Savannah, GA
09.2022 - 06.2023
- Prepared surgical instruments and supplies for various procedures.
- Assisted surgeons during operations by ensuring optimal sterility and leveraging expertise in surgical procedures.
- Ensured sterile environment in operating rooms by following strict aseptic techniques.
- Collaborated with nursing staff, surgeons, and management to enhance efficiency and coordination of surgical workflows.
- Responded quickly to changes in patient status or emergency situations.
- Trained and mentored new employees and students on surgical procedures and protocols to promote best practices.
CST III- staff employee
Sarasota Memorial Hospital
Sarasota, FL
07.2021 - 09.2022
- Prepared surgical instruments and supplies for various procedures.
- Assisted surgeons during operations by ensuring optimal sterility and leveraging expertise in surgical procedures.
- Ensured sterile environment in operating rooms by following strict aseptic techniques.
- Collaborated with nursing staff, surgeons, and management to enhance efficiency and coordination of surgical workflows.
- Responded quickly to changes in patient status or emergency situations.
- Trained and mentored new employees and students on surgical procedures and protocols to promote best practices.
CST- contract employee
Sarasota Memorial Hospital
Sarasota, FL
06.2020 - 06.2021
- Prepared surgical instruments and supplies for various procedures.
- Assisted surgeons during operations by ensuring optimal sterility and leveraging expertise in surgical procedures.
- Ensured sterile environment in operating rooms by following strict aseptic techniques.
- Collaborated with nursing staff, surgeons, and management to enhance efficiency and coordination of surgical workflows.
- Responded quickly to changes in patient status or emergency situations.
- Trained and mentored new employees and students on surgical procedures and protocols to promote best practices.
CST- contract employee
Seton Southwest Hospital
Austin, TX
01.2020 - 03.2020
- Prepared surgical instruments and supplies for various procedures.
- Assisted surgeons during operations by ensuring optimal sterility and leveraging expertise in surgical procedures.
- Ensured sterile environment in operating rooms by following strict aseptic techniques.
- Collaborated with nursing staff, surgeons, and management to enhance efficiency and coordination of surgical workflows.
- Responded quickly to changes in patient status or emergency situations.
- Trained and mentored new employees and students on surgical procedures and protocols to promote best practices.
CST- contract employee
Sarasota Memorial Hospital
Sarasota, FL
03.2019 - 12.2019
- Prepared surgical instruments and supplies for various procedures.
- Assisted surgeons during operations by ensuring optimal sterility and leveraging expertise in surgical procedures.
- Ensured sterile environment in operating rooms by following strict aseptic techniques.
- Collaborated with nursing staff, surgeons, and management to enhance efficiency and coordination of surgical workflows.
- Responded quickly to changes in patient status or emergency situations.
- Trained and mentored new employees and students on surgical procedures and protocols to promote best practices.
CST- contract employee
Center City Outpatient Surgery
Charlotte, NC
09.2018 - 03.2019
- Prepared surgical instruments and supplies for various procedures.
- Assisted surgeons during operations by ensuring optimal sterility and leveraging expertise in surgical procedures.
- Ensured sterile environment in operating rooms by following strict aseptic techniques.
- Collaborated with nursing staff, surgeons, and management to enhance efficiency and coordination of surgical workflows.
- Responded quickly to changes in patient status or emergency situations.
- Trained and mentored new employees and students on surgical procedures and protocols to promote best practices.
CST- contract employee
Summerville Medical Center
Summerville, SC
05.2018 - 08.2018
- Prepared surgical instruments and supplies for various procedures.
- Assisted surgeons during operations by ensuring optimal sterility and leveraging expertise in surgical procedures.
- Ensured sterile environment in operating rooms by following strict aseptic techniques.
- Collaborated with nursing staff, surgeons, and management to enhance efficiency and coordination of surgical workflows.
- Responded quickly to changes in patient status or emergency situations.
- Trained and mentored new employees and students on surgical procedures and protocols to promote best practices.
CST- staff employee
Memorial Health University
Savannah, GA
11.2016 - 05.2018
- Prepared surgical instruments and supplies for various procedures.
- Assisted surgeons during operations by ensuring optimal sterility and leveraging expertise in surgical procedures.
- Ensured sterile environment in operating rooms by following strict aseptic techniques.
- Collaborated with nursing staff, surgeons, and management to enhance efficiency and coordination of surgical workflows.
- Responded quickly to changes in patient status or emergency situations.
- Trained and mentored new employees and students on surgical procedures and protocols to promote best practices.
CST- staff employee
Beaufort Memorial Surgery Center
Beaufort, SC
10.2015 - 03.2017
- Prepared surgical instruments and supplies for various procedures.
- Assisted surgeons during operations by ensuring optimal sterility and leveraging expertise in surgical procedures.
- Ensured sterile environment in operating rooms by following strict aseptic techniques.
- Collaborated with nursing staff, surgeons, and management to enhance efficiency and coordination of surgical workflows.
- Responded quickly to changes in patient status or emergency situations.
- Trained and mentored new employees and students on surgical procedures and protocols to promote best practices.
- Participated in the maintenance and cleaning of all surgical instruments and equipment.
CST II- staff employee
Saint Francis Hospital South
Tulsa, OK
08.2008 - 09.2015
- Prepared surgical instruments and supplies for various procedures.
- Assisted surgeons during operations by ensuring optimal sterility and leveraging expertise in surgical procedures.
- Ensured sterile environment in operating rooms by following strict aseptic techniques.
- Collaborated with nursing staff, surgeons, and management to enhance efficiency and coordination of surgical workflows.
- Responded quickly to changes in patient status or emergency situations.
- Trained and mentored new employees and students on surgical procedures and protocols to promote best practices.
- Participated in the maintenance and cleaning of all surgical instruments and equipment.
Education
Associates in Applied Sciences - Surgical Technology
Community Care College
Tulsa, OK06-2008
Business courses
Oklahoma State University
Stillwater & Tulsa, OKGeneral Education courses
Tulsa Community College
Tulsa, OKSkills
- Sterile field preparation
- Aseptic technique
- Surgeon assistance
- Equipment sterilization
- Infection control
- Clinical education
- Sterile technique
- Operational efficiency
- Emergency response
- Effective communication
- Time management
- Adaptability
- Patient safety protocols
- Surgical equipment operation
- Wound dressing
- Surgical instrumentation
- HIPAA proficiency
- Basic Life Support
Certification
- Basic Life Support
- NBSTSA Certification in Surgical Technology
- AST Member
- Crucial Conversations 3 Day Course
Affiliations
- High School Job Fairs
- Attendant to Program Advisory Committees for local tech schools
Timeline
Surgical Tech Educator
Tallahassee Memorial Hospital
07.2025 - Current
CST- contract employee
CHI Health
11.2024 - 05.2025
CST- contract employee
Sycamore Shoals
08.2024 - 10.2024
CST- contract employee
UF Shands
01.2024 - 07.2024
CST- contract employee
Ascension St John’s
07.2023 - 12.2023
CST- contract employee
Memorial Hospital
09.2022 - 06.2023
CST III- staff employee
Sarasota Memorial Hospital
07.2021 - 09.2022
CST- contract employee
Sarasota Memorial Hospital
06.2020 - 06.2021
CST- contract employee
Seton Southwest Hospital
01.2020 - 03.2020
CST- contract employee
Sarasota Memorial Hospital
03.2019 - 12.2019
CST- contract employee
Center City Outpatient Surgery
09.2018 - 03.2019
CST- contract employee
Summerville Medical Center
05.2018 - 08.2018
CST- staff employee
Memorial Health University
11.2016 - 05.2018
CST- staff employee
Beaufort Memorial Surgery Center
10.2015 - 03.2017
CST II- staff employee
Saint Francis Hospital South
08.2008 - 09.2015
Associates in Applied Sciences - Surgical Technology
Community Care College
Business courses
Oklahoma State University
General Education courses
Tulsa Community College