Conscientious Operating Room Nurse offering over twenty nine years of experience in healthcare, seeking to provide exceptional care for facilities in need of experienced, reliable, team oriented operating room nurse.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Travel Registered Nurse
Liquid Agents Healthcare/Swedish First Hill
Seattle, WA
05.2022 - 07.2022
Circulate/Scrub twenty room OR-10 week contract
General, Plastics, GYN, Urology, CV, Gen Pediatrics
Preceptor for new staff
Epic charting
Travel Registered Nurse - Operating Room
Liquid Agents Healthcare/SSM Health St Anthony
Oklahoma City, OK
12.2021 - 05.2022
Circulate/Scrub seventeen room OR-13 week contract with 8 week extension.
General, GYN, Urology, CV, Neuro, Plastics, Podiatry.
Preceptor for new staff
EPIC Charting
Charge Nurse Surgical Services
Methodist Texsan Hospital
San Antonio, TX
05.2017 - 10.2021
Circulate/Scrub busy four room OR, CVOR, Total Joints, Ortho, Spine & General service lines.
Circulate/Scrub all service lines within HCA Facilities in San Antonio, several 13 week contracts at Methodist Texsan Hospital, took permanent position at this facility as Charge Nurse in 2017.
Clinical Nurse Manager Surgical Services
Seton Northwest Hospital
Austin, TX
04.2015 - 03.2016
Hands on Manager of 30 FTEs.
Five OR rooms, two Endoscopy rooms, Anesthesia & Sterile Processing departments.
Fiscal management, capital budget, monthly departmental budget, staff productivity optimization.
Implementation quality compliance with regulatory and accreditation agencies, JCAHO/CMS/HCAPS/Core Measures.
Staff Nurse, Operating Room
Santa Rosa Hospital
New Braunfels, TX
03.2013 - 04.2015
Circulate/Scrub all service lines; General, Total joints, Ortho, CVOR, GYN and Urology, Plastics, ENT.
Assisted Meditech Data Maintainer with daily Pyxis charge captures & inventory replenishments, electronic chart audits & physician preference card maintenance and Surgical Services monthly reports.
Taught established monthly total joint classes to patients & families.
Staff Nurse ,Operating Room
Christus Sant Rosa Westover Hills
San Antonio, TX
07.2012 - 03.2013
Circulate/Scrub all preoperative service lines (transferred to sister facility due to relocation).
Director Surgical Services
South Texas Regional Medical Center
Jourdanton, TX
03.2008 - 05.2012
Supervised 30FTEs/ four operating rooms, pre-op, recovery room and GI lab, and sterile processing, Staff development.
Fiscal management; capital budget/corporate contract compliance, staff productivity -Participation in strategic department planning,.
Physician recruitment, service line development .
Ensured compliance with regulatory & accreditation agencies.
Policy & procedure development per AORN/ASPAN standards, CMS/JCAHO guidelines.
Clinical Director of the year 2010.
Covered CNO in absence, rotated weekly as House Supervisor.
Education
Bachelors of Science Nursing -
University of Texas Health Science San Antonio
San Antonio, TX
05.1993
Surgical Technology Certification -
Del Mar College
Corpus Christi, TX
05.1989
Skills
Proficient Circulator highly organized with excellent communication skills