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Franklin Jones

Rome,GA

Summary

Dependable Coordinator/ First Assistant provides excellent surgical management and administrative support. Possesses strong communication and interpersonal skills with demonstrated ability to manage competing priorities and meet deadlines. Creative problem solver with strong analytical and critical thinking skills.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience

Work History

Vascular Coordinator, CSFA

Advent Health Redmond
03.2020 - Current


  • Coached employees through day-to-day work and complex problems.
  • Gathered and organized materials to support operations.
  • Set priorities and problem-solved workflow issues to maintain rapport with surgeons and managers.
  • Inventoried and ordered room supplies to maintain availability of products.
  • Arranged supplies and instrumentation to meet needs of individual surgeons and enhance team efficiency.
  • Minimized surgical bleeding with skilled ligation and clamping of blood vessels.
  • Paid close attention to operating procedures for adherence to established surgical techniques.
  • Gowned and gloved staff to help team prepare for surgeries.
  • Applied antiseptics and sterile dressings to cover surgical locations and boost healing.
  • Protected patients from infection by setting up and managing sterile operating fields.
  • Kept views unobstructed by retracting, sponging, and suctioning surgical sites.
  • Close surgical incisions for surgeons.

Certified Surgical First Assistant

Redmond Regional Medical Center
11.2015 - Current
  • Assisted with transfer of patients from recovery room to operating room, providing care and support.
  • Monitored patient vital signs, reporting changes to surgeon for further investigation.
  • Verified identity of patient or operative site.
  • Assist surgeon during surgical procedure.
  • Close surgical site for surgeons.

Surgical Technologist

Redmond Regional Medical Center
01.2006 - Current
  • Setup operating and surgery rooms by preparing equipment and supplies for upcoming procedures.
  • Maintained high infection control standards.
  • Delivered exemplary assistance and support to surgeons during general, gynecological, orthopedic, neurological, plastic surgery, urology and vascular procedures.
  • Evaluated procedure needs and set up equipment, tools, supplies, and instruments.
  • Maintained daily workflow, coordinating with operating room staff to prepare for scheduled and emergency cases.
  • Introduced new staff members to training protocols regarding operating room procedures, infection control, safety standards, and overall facility policies.
  • Operated, adjusted, and monitored diagnostic equipment and other machines used during procedures.
  • Maintained specialty equipment, implant, and instrumentation inventories.
  • Decontaminated, cleaned, assembled, packaged, sterilized, stored, and distributed reusable surgical instrumentation and equipment.

Education

Associate of Applied Science - Surgical First Assisting

Meridian Institute of Surgical Assisting
Nashville, TN
11.2017

Skills

Coordinate day to day activities for vascular surgery

Maintain a rapport with surgeons

Able to scrub and/or First assist any specialty in the Surgical suites

Obtain current BLS certification

Maintain Endo Vascular suite inventory

Work closely with materials for ordering specialty supplies and implants

Train new staff

Timeline

Vascular Coordinator, CSFA

Advent Health Redmond
03.2020 - Current

Certified Surgical First Assistant

Redmond Regional Medical Center
11.2015 - Current

Surgical Technologist

Redmond Regional Medical Center
01.2006 - Current

Associate of Applied Science - Surgical First Assisting

Meridian Institute of Surgical Assisting
Franklin Jones