Jalisa Lucko
Lakewood
Summary
Motivated Certified Surgical Technologist with over five years experience in preparing sterile fields and sustaining surgical conscience every day in the O.R. Maintaining integrity within my field, strong organization skills, communication with my entire team, and ensuring the best patient care I can give to each patient. Proven leader focused on improving surgical practices and outcomes, and well versed in professional operating room procedures, expectations and safe practices.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Certified Surgical Technologist
University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center
09.2019 - Current
- Set up sterile fields, perform proper instrument, tray, soft and sharps counts.
- Assist with draping sterile field, gowning and gloving surgeons and team members, performing surgical scrub, and maintaining aseptic technique and a sterile field at all times.
- Ensuring patient safety at all times by being involed in patient hand-off, patient time-out, incision pause, and debrief.
- Collect specimens, draw and label all medications appropriately, verify expiration dates and sterility.
- Assist with moving, turning patients safely onto and off O.R table, ensuring seatbelts are properly placed and patient skin protectors are in place.
- Ensure effective communication is used at all times before, during, and after all procedures with all team members during the case.
- Train and educate students, interns, and new hires.
- Proficiency in EPIC patient charting system, strong medical terminology, and maintaining certification through continuing education credits via online courses.
- Served as Co-Service leader of ENT-head and neck, and Service Leader of Otology.
- Create and upkeep surgeon preference cards, ordering supplies, logging implants, helping to develop new strategies for better work-flow, and being a resource person via phone and email for the service.
- Participating in room-turnover and prepping a clean O.R
- Level One Trauma experience with moving in a fast paced O.R.
- Experience scrubbing surgeries in ENT- head and neck, Otology, Neuro Surgery, General, Ortho Trauma, Facial Plastics, Oral-Maxillofacial, Podiatry, GYN, Colorectal.
- Assist with retracting, applying dressings and operating C02 and KTP laser as well as multiple microscopes.
Surgical Technologist Intern
University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center
01.2017 - 08.2019
- Performed scrub tech roles under the supervision of RN and Certified Surgical Technologist until indepedent.
- Oriented to each surgical service for approx six weeks at a time as a student/intern
Education
Associate of Applied Science - Surgical Technology
Lorain County Community College
Elyria, OH08.2019
Skills
- Maintain Aseptic technique at all times
- Provide patient safety before and after all procedures
- Maintain integrity within my field as well as my surgical conscience
- Strong organization while setting up sterile fields as well as throughout all procedures
- Excellent communication skills with entire team including patient
- Ability to multi-task, think, and act quickly
- Knowledge of sterile indicators, instruments, and proper surgical setup per each specialty
- Take part in 'speak-up' culture to do what is ethical, and correct for the patient and team
- Properly clean room during turn-over
- Proper Scope care
- Be a teacher and leader to new hires as well as interns and students
- Use my skills and knowledge as a Certified Surgical Technologist to be a resource person as well as serve on committees to improve practices and outcomes
Affiliations
- Academic Deans list
Certification
- Certified Surgical Technologist
- Board certified by National Board of Surgical Technology and Surgical Assisting (NBSTSA)
Education and Training
NBSTSA certified
AST certified
Proficient in computer charting systems and Medical Terminology.
Timeline
Certified Surgical Technologist
University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center
09.2019 - Current
Surgical Technologist Intern
University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center
01.2017 - 08.2019
Associate of Applied Science - Surgical Technology
Lorain County Community College
- Certified Surgical Technologist
- Board certified by National Board of Surgical Technology and Surgical Assisting (NBSTSA)
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