Julija Zemaitaityte-Kulys
Chicago,IL
Summary
Statte of Illinois
Registered Surgical Assistant
License 238.000024
Expires 04/30/2024
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Surgical Technologist
Cook County Health Hospital Systems
Chicago, IL
05.2004 - Current
- Sterilized instruments and disposed of medical supplies and waste following OSHA guidelines.
- Managed operating room setup by cleaning and sterilizing instruments and surfaces, maintaining supply inventories, and organizing surgical tools.
- Decontaminated, cleaned, assembled, packaged, sterilized, stored, and distributed reusable surgical instrumentation and equipment.
- Maintained specialty equipment, implant, and instrumentation inventories.
- Created and maintained unobstructed operative fields using diverse range of tools.
- Introduced new staff members to training protocols regarding operating room procedures, infection control, safety standards, and overall facility policies.
- Setup operating and surgery rooms by preparing equipment and supplies for upcoming procedures.
- 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.
- Maintained high infection control standards.
- Operated, adjusted, and monitored diagnostic equipment and other machines used during procedures.
- Sterilized instruments and equipment for specific procedures and arranged for surgeons.
- Passed instruments and supplies to surgical team members to provide surgeons with necessary tools to complete procedures.
- Contributed to team-based problem-solving to resolve issues that arose during surgery and improve patient outcomes.
- Completed continuing education units, staying up to date on surgical technology and meeting organizational requirements.
- Gathered and set up equipment, tools, and supplies and arrange instruments according to surgeons' preferences or instruction.
- Cleaned and maintained operating equipment to keep resources in good working condition and ready for use.
- Transported patients to and from surgeries to promote timely operating room turnover.
- Handled and prepared specimens for laboratory analysis to provide surgeons with relevant information.
- Reduced infection risks and protected patients by maintaining sterile fields during procedures.
Education
Pediatric Cardiologist
Kaunas Medical Institute
Kaunas Lithuania06.1970
Skills
- Pre- and Post-Surgical Counts
- Equipment and Instrument Sterilizatoin
- Workplace Safety
- Medication Administration
- Instructing
- Coordination
- Service-Orientation
- Suturing
- Quality Control Analysis
- Equipment Selection
- Handle Specimens
- Hand Instruments
- Instrumentation Specification
- Proper Specimen Disposal
- Surgical Team Scrubbing
- Safety Protocols Expertise
- Patient Data Identification
- Active Listening
- Tool Sterilizing
- Intra-Operative Assistance
- Disposing of Biohazardous Waste
- Sterile Field Management
- Aseptic and Sterilization Techniques
- Safe Needle Disposal
- Instrument Preparation
- Patient Transportation
Certification
- CSFA - Certified Surgical First Assistant
Languages
Lithuanian
Native or Bilingual
Timeline
Surgical Technologist
Cook County Health Hospital Systems
05.2004 - Current
Pediatric Cardiologist
Kaunas Medical Institute
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