Ginger Delaney
Champaign,IL
Summary
Meticulous surgical technologist excited to bring 30-year background to growing organization. Knowledgeable in all aspects of surgery, including setting up operating rooms, a preparing patients and assisting physicians. Committed to maintaining highest standards of health and safety. Organized and dependable candidate successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude. Willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals. Detail-oriented team player with strong organizational skills. Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously with a high degree of accuracy. To seek and maintain full-time position that offers professional challenges utilizing interpersonal skills, excellent time management and problem-solving skills.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
Work History
Surgical Technologist
Carle Foundation Hospital
12.2023 - Current
- Setup procedure rooms by preparing equipment and supplies for upcoming procedures.
- Maintained high infection control standards.
- Delivered exemplary assistance and support to physicians during Gastrointestinal procedures.
- Evaluated procedure needs and set up equipment, tools, supplies, and instruments.
- Maintained daily workflow, coordinating with proceedure staff to prepare for scheduled and emergency cases.
- Created and maintained unobstructed proceedural fields using diverse range of tools and supplies.
- Introduced new staff members to training protocols regarding procedures, infection control, safety standards, and overall facility policies.
- Provided doctors with necessary tools to complete procedures.
- Gathered and set up equipment, tools, and supplies according to physicians preferences or instruction.
- Reduced infection risks and protected patients by maintaining fields during procedures.
- Positioned patients to create comfortable procedure environment for patients.
- Contributed to team-based problem-solving to resolve issues that arose during proceedure and improve patient outcomes.
- Handled and prepared specimens for laboratory analysis to provide physicians with relevant information.
- Cleaned and maintained operating equipment to keep resources in good working condition and ready for use.
- Completed continuing education units, staying up to date on surgical technology and meeting organizational requirements.
Surgical Technologist
OSF Heart Of Mary Medical Center
10.2008 - 09.2023
- 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, and plastic surgery procedures.
- Evaluated procedure needs and set up equipment, tools, supplies, and instruments.
- Introduced new staff members to training protocols regarding operating room procedures, infection control, safety standards, and overall facility policies.
- Passed instruments and supplies to surgical team members to provide surgeons with necessary tools to complete procedures.
- Reduced infection risks and protected patients by maintaining sterile fields during procedures.
- Maintained daily workflow, coordinating with operating room staff to prepare for scheduled and emergency cases.
- Created and maintained unobstructed operative fields using diverse range of tools.
- Gathered and set up equipment, tools, and supplies and arrange instruments according to surgeons' preferences or instruction.
- Positioned patients and set up drapes to create comfortable surgical environment for patients.
- Contributed to team-based problem-solving to resolve issues that arose during surgery and improve patient outcomes.
- Handled and prepared specimens for laboratory analysis to provide surgeons with relevant information.
- Cleaned and maintained operating equipment to keep resources in good working condition and ready for use.
- Completed continuing education units, staying up to date on surgical technology and meeting organizational requirements.
Education
Associate of Technology - Surgical Technology
Parkland College
Champaign, IL05.1993
Skills
- Wound Dressing
- Pre- and Post-Surgical Counts
- Patient Transportation
- Workplace Safety
- Preparing for Surgeries
- Medication Side Effect Knowledge
- Equipment Maintenance
- Patient Tracking Software
- Complex Problem-Solving
- Equipment Operation
- Patient Confidentiality
- Hand Instruments
- Instrument Preparation
- Collecting Medical Specimens
- HIPAA Proficiency
- Electronic Charting
- Operation Monitoring
- Patient Data Identification
- Instrumentation Specification
- Scope care
- Active Listening
- Management of Material Resources
- Infection Control Protocols
- Sterile Field Management
- Safety Protocols Expertise
- EPIC EMR
- Learning Strategies
- Judgment and Decision-Making
- or Preparation
- Social Perceptiveness
- Supply Management
- Sterile Processing Support
- Disposing of Biohazardous Waste
- Critical Thinking
- Surgical gowning
- Aseptic and Sterilization Techniques
- Irrigation Management
- Patient Preparation
- Tool Sterilizing
- Biological Specimen Collection
- Reading Comprehension
- Daily Workflows
- Basic Life Support
- Nursing Support
- Safe Needle Disposal
- Intra-Operative Assistance
- Time Management
- Handle Specimens
- Oxygen Supply Apparatus
- Proper Specimen Disposal
- Position Patients
- Supervising or Activities
- Equipment Selection
- Email Software
- Inventory Restocking
- Surgical Team Scrubbing
- Patient Scheduling Software
- Suturing
- Monitoring
- Instructing
- Patient instruction
- Hardware maintenance
- Machine learning
- Image evaluation
- Quality control guidelines
- IT troubleshooting
Timeline
Surgical Technologist
Carle Foundation Hospital
12.2023 - Current
Surgical Technologist
OSF Heart Of Mary Medical Center
10.2008 - 09.2023
Associate of Technology - Surgical Technology
Parkland College