Hi, I’m
Kara Felicity Guitche Moriel
Surgical Technician
Westminster,California
Summary
Driven Surgical Technician offering a completion of Surgical Technology Program. Externship Program Experience at Glendale Adventist Medical Center. First scrub includes total joint replacement, total knee replacement, general surgery, some vascular, cystoscopy and plastic surgery procedures. To seek and maintain full-time position that offers professional challenges utilizing interpersonal skills, excellent time management and problem-solving skills. Hardworking and passionate job seeker with strong organizational skills eager to secure entry-level Surgical Technician position. Ready to help team achieve company goals.
Eager to take next career step with growing organization offering opportunities for professional development and advancement.
Overview
7
years of professional experience
Work History
ExternshipGlendale, CA
Surgical Technician
11.2022 - 02.2023
Job overview
- Created unobstructive operative fields by using retractors, sponges, and suction and irrigating equipment.
- Anticipated surgeons needs and handed instruments and supplies to surgeons during procedures.
- Created safe operating environments for invasive and non-invasive procedures.
- Prepared instruments for terminal sterilization and reset surgical suites for next procedure.
- Used sutures, staples, clips and other tools to close wounds.
- Collected, prepared and disposed of medical specimens.
- Gathered and set up equipment, tools, and supplies and arrange instruments according to surgeons' preferences or instruction.
- Maintained sterile fields by following aseptic techniques and adhering to infection control protocols.
- Followed scrub-in procedures by gowning and gloving correctly to assist in sterile fields.
- Completed continued education units yearly to stay up to date on surgical technology and meet organizational requirements.
- Maintained safe working environments by adhering to safety protocols and reporting hazards.
- Sterilized instruments and equipment for specific procedures and arranged for surgeons.
- Reduced infection risks and protected patients by maintaining sterile fields during procedures.
- Completed continuing education units, staying up to date on surgical technology and meeting organizational requirements.
- Positioned patients and set up drapes to create comfortable surgical environment for patients.
- Sterilized instruments and disposed of medical supplies and waste following OSHA guidelines.
Quest Dialysis Center Long Beach
Hemodialysis Technician
01.2019
Job overview
- Assist Registered Nurses and Physicians in providing all aspects of direct and indirect patient care
- A Patient Care Technician’s role include assisting in examination and treatment of patients, measuring vital signs and monitoring health, collecting samples, recording information on patients’ charts, and preparing treatment rooms for examination
- Responsible for measuring the vital signs and monitoring the health of patients
- They take the temperature, pulse, blood pressure, respiration, daily weights and dietary intake of the patients, and inquire about their health and well-being
- In some cases, may collect blood or urine samples
- Accurately record the information they collect on the patient for inclusion in the medical record
- They promptly report any changes in a patient’s condition to a Registered Nurse or Physician
- Assist patients with their basic needs, such as eating, drinking, dressing, bathing and personal hygiene
- Transport patients to and from other departments as needed
- Help Physicians and Nurses in educating patient and family on the nature of the care required and therapies being provided
- Maintains close communication with Physicians and healthcare team members to understand the patient’s status and needs.
Fresenius Kidney CareOrange
Hemodialysis Technician
01.2019 - Current
Job overview
- Completed dialysis machine and equipment setup prior to patient treatment and performed safety tests to verify readiness.
- Reinforced patient and caregiver education to enhance understanding of disease and prescribed treatment protocols.
- Assisted with dialysis technician orientation and training to promote high standard of patient care.
- Delivered required oxygen by mask or cannula.
- Obtained patient's blood samples via access site or dialysis lines.
- Responded to dialysis-related emergency situations under nurse supervision.
- Disinfected dialysis station, equipment and chairs after completion of each patient treatment.
- Monitored patient's vital signs and adjusted dialysis treatment parameters.
- Performed dialysis access site cannulation and initiated dialysis treatment.
- Measured and recorded patients' pre-dialysis and post-dialysis vital statistics.
- Set-up equipment for dialysis and primed dialyzer in preparation for use.
- Cleaned and connected fistulas, grafts and catheters to prevent infection.
- Performed routine quality control and safety checks on all equipment.
- Safely transported, transferred and positioned patients on chairs for treatment.
- Explained dialysis procedures to patients and answered questions and concerns prior to starting dialysis.
- Followed directions when mixing dialysate and priming dialyzer with saline or heparinized solutions.
- Started and ended reverse osmosis water systems and completed water quality monitoring tests.
- Set up and operated dialysis machines for patients receiving treatment for kidney failure.
- Explained dialysis procedures and hemodialysis machine operation to patients prior to treatment to ease anxieties.
- Monitored each patient closely during treatment to check for any adverse reactions or change in condition and reported emergencies to attending nurses.
- Conducted equipment and safety checks on hemodialysis equipment and supplies.
- Cleaned and disinfected hemodialysis machines, chairs, trays, room and equipment.
- Recorded patient's pre-dialysis weight, vitals, and any new medical conditions.
- Recorded client data on hemodialysis flow chart.
- Followed prescribed infection control protocols and wore personal protective equipment to minimize contamination risk.
- Participated in technical and clinical competency reviews to maintain dialysis treatment skill level.
Zelomara Plus Home Health
Clinical Intake Coordinator
01.2018 - Current
Job overview
- I support back office administrative functions related to the intake process, including opening new records, interfacing with referral sources, and collaboration with the Sales department
- This includes reviewing clinical information for eligibility, accepting and reviewing orders, hospital holds, and laboratory workflow
- Acts as a liaison between company and referral sources to ensure smooth processing of referrals
- Processes Initial Home Health Order (verbal or written) to ensure patient receives care within 48 hours
- Ensures that all relevant patient information is obtained and entered into system, in order to meet Medicare and non-Medicare insurance requirements
- Reviews relevant patient information received from referral source (i.e
- Patient personal demographic, history and physical, current medications, physician’s orders, Face to Face, surgical reports, etc.) Maintains accurate records on all patients not admitted and provide that information upon request
- Assists with the concerns and immediate needs of the patient and delegates to clinical staff as necessary
- Ensures compliance with all State and Federal regulations/practices.
Glidewell Dental
laboratories Dental Technician and Designer
12.2016 - 02.2018
Job overview
- Responsible for developing and making items like dentures, braces, bridges and crowns using porcelain, gold, plastic and other materials
- Their work helps patients improve their appearance and chew more easily
- Have the ability to follow dentist guidelines, teamwork, and time management
- Develop die and model work for the creation of crowns and bridges
- Manage quality control over all porcelain crowns and bridgework and resolve any issues that arise
- Improved invoice system, which led to more timely client receivables and increased client satisfaction
- Creates models of the teeth and mouth per dentist instructions
- Polished and maintained high-end titanium restorations under a microscope
- Read prescriptions carefully to ensure accuracy in production.
Seven Eleven
Cashier
05.2016 - 12.2016
Job overview
- Receive payments, Assist Customers by providing information and resolving their complaints, issue receipts, refunds, credits or change due to customer
- Count money in cash drawers at the beginning of shifts to ensure the amounts are correct and that there is adequate change
- Greet customers entering establishments
- Sell tickets and other items to customers, maintain clean and orderly checkout areas and complete other general cleaning duties, such as mopping floors and emptying trash cans
- Stock shelves and mark prices on shelves and items
- Keep periodic balance sheets of amounts and number of transitions.
Education
North-West College AnaheimAnaheim, CA
Certification from Surgical Technology
04.2023
Glendale Adventist Medical CenterGlendale
from School Externship
10.2022
North-West CollegeAnaheim, CA
AHA BLS CPR & AED for health care providers Certified
10.2022
Dialysis Training Institute
CA Hemodialysis Completion Certificate
2018
State of California CHT License # 01131710
2018
California Dialysis Council Exam CDC Certificate CDC#130903
2018
Red Cross, CPR First Aid Training Santa Ana California Certificate
2016
STI College
IT Degree
2014
Training on professionalism Personal Development Philippines, 211 hours Education Certificate
2014
Saint's Vincent CollegePhilippines
Care Giving Certificate from Care Giver
Red Cross at Cebu Philippines First Aid Certificate
2009
OJT in Dipolog Zanorte Medical Center Philippines Care Giving Certificate
2009
Zamboanga Del Norte National High School (ZNNHS)
HS Diploma
2003
Skills
- A highly dedicated individual
- Reliable
- Flexible on shifting schedules
- Can work with or no supervision
- Trustworthy
- Knowledge in Microsoft office
- Compassionate
- Able to prioritize
- Accurate, alert and organized
- Able to complete projects under pressure
- Enjoy working within a team
- Able to work on my feet for many hours
- Infection Control Standards
- Biohazardous Waste Disposal
- Nursing Assistance
- Complex Problem-Solving
- Laboratory Equipment Handling
- Team Collaboration
- Medication Side Effect Knowledge
- Employee Training
- Safety Protocols
- Aseptic Techniques
- Maintaining Dialysis Equipment
- Technical Troubleshooting
- Emergency Situations
- Positioning Patients
- Surgical Instruments
- Hemodialysis Care
- Specimen Labeling
- Fistula Cannulation
- Patient Care Technician (PCT)
- Safe Needle Disposal
- Specimen Preparation
- Preparing for Surgeries
- Medication Administration
- Passing Surgical Tools
- Wound Dressing
- Aseptic and Sterilization Techniques
- Total Joint Replacements
- Sterilization Processes
- Pre- and Post-Surgical Counts
- Suture Cutting
- Infection Control Protocols
- Basic Life Support
- Instrument Preparation
- Plastic Surgery
- Irrigation Management
- Equipment and Instrument Sterilizatoin
- Gowning and Gloving Procedures
- Position Patients
Timeline
Surgical Technician
Externship
11.2022 - 02.2023
Hemodialysis Technician
Fresenius Kidney Care
01.2019 - Current
Hemodialysis Technician
Quest Dialysis Center Long Beach
01.2019
Clinical Intake Coordinator
Zelomara Plus Home Health
01.2018 - Current
laboratories Dental Technician and Designer
Glidewell Dental
12.2016 - 02.2018
Cashier
Seven Eleven
05.2016 - 12.2016
North-West College Anaheim
Certification from Surgical Technology
Glendale Adventist Medical Center
from School Externship
North-West College
AHA BLS CPR & AED for health care providers Certified
Dialysis Training Institute
CA Hemodialysis Completion Certificate
State of California CHT License # 01131710
California Dialysis Council Exam CDC Certificate CDC#130903
Red Cross, CPR First Aid Training Santa Ana California Certificate
STI College
IT Degree
Training on professionalism Personal Development Philippines, 211 hours Education Certificate
Saint's Vincent College
Care Giving Certificate from Care Giver
Red Cross at Cebu Philippines First Aid Certificate
OJT in Dipolog Zanorte Medical Center Philippines Care Giving Certificate
Zamboanga Del Norte National High School (ZNNHS)
HS Diploma