Karyn Goane
CALABASH
Summary
Professional with high standards and strong focus on results. Skilled in perioperative nursing, patient care, surgical procedures, and sterile techniques. Reliable team player who adapts to changing needs and prioritizes collaboration to ensure optimal patient outcomes. Strong communication, critical thinking, and problem-solving abilities valued by employers.
Overview
25
25
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Registered Nurse, Operating Room
Novant Health
06.2022 - Current
- Prevented infections and maintained a sterile environment through diligent adherence to infection control guidelines and operating room best practices.
- Assisted with patient positioning, prepping, and draping during surgical procedures to ensure optimal safety and comfort throughout the process.
- Developed strong rapport with patients'' families through effective communication about surgical expectations, progress updates, and postoperative care instructions.
- Served as a reliable resource for colleagues in navigating complex case scenarios, offering expertise on various surgical interventions and troubleshooting challenges encountered during procedures.
- Maintained an organized and efficient work environment within the operating room by effectively managing supplies, equipment inventory, and sterilization processes.
- Optimized patient care during surgery by skillfully assisting in various operative procedures and handling surgical instruments proficiently.
- Demonstrated strong clinical judgment by accurately interpreting diagnostic data prior to surgery, ensuring optimal decision-making during procedures.
- Liaison for Organ Procurement cases.
- Collected, labeled and transported specimens and delivered to lab for testing.
- Performed pre-operative assessments to prepare patients for surgery.
- Improved patient satisfaction by providing compassionate, individualized care throughout the surgical process.
- Reduced surgical complications through thorough patient assessment and timely communication with the surgical team.
- Utilized sterile techniques and infection-control guidelines to maintain clean and safe environment.
- Trained new nurses in proper techniques, care standards, operational procedures, and safety protocols.
- Provided effective bedside care to patients before and after procedures to deliver comfort.
Surgical Technologists
Novant Health
09.2017 - Current
- Assist in operations, under the supervision of surgeons, registered nurses, or other surgical personnel
- May help set up operating room, prepare and transport patients for surgery, adjust lights and equipment, pass instruments and other supplies to surgeons and surgeon's assistants, hold retractors, cut sutures, and help count sponges, needles, supplies, and instruments.
- Maintained high infection control standards.
- Minimized infection risks by strictly adhering to aseptic techniques when handling surgical supplies and equipment.
- Prepared operating rooms with required instruments, ensuring efficient setup for various surgical cases.
Surgical Technologist
Greenwich Hospital
06.2000 - 01.2017
- Prepared operating rooms with required instruments, ensuring efficient setup for various surgical cases.
- Setup operating and surgery rooms by preparing equipment and supplies for upcoming procedures.
- Minimized infection risks by strictly adhering to aseptic techniques when handling surgical supplies and equipment.
- Assisted surgeons in complex procedures for optimal patient outcomes and reduced recovery time.
- Increased efficiency during surgeries by anticipating surgeon''s needs and providing timely assistance.
- Mentored new surgical technologists, sharing expertise and fostering their growth within the profession.
- Enhanced patient safety by maintaining a sterile surgical environment and adhering to strict protocols.
- Introduced new staff members to training protocols regarding operating room procedures, infection control, safety standards, and overall facility policies.
- Managed operating room setup by cleaning and sterilizing instruments and surfaces, maintaining supply inventories, and organizing surgical tools.
Education
Associate of Science - Nursing
Brunswick Community College
Bolivia, NC09-2022
Skills
- Experience in assisting in operations, under the supervision of surgeons, registered nurses, or other surgical personnel, including setting up operating rooms, preparing and transporting patients, adjusting equipment, holding and passing equipment, and cutting sutures
- Medication and IV administration
- Sterile technique proficiency
- Setting up and operating equipment
- Direct patient care
- Surgical expertise
- Surgical assistance
- Patient assessments
- Staff supervision and training
- Documentation and charting
- Basic life support
- Infection control protocols
- Pre- and post-surgical counts
- Clinical judgment
- Patient safety management
- Critical thinking and problem solving
- Compassion and empathy
- Specimen collection
- Organizational skills and attention to detail
- Patient confidentiality
- Family education
- Time management
- Precepting
- Surgical procedures
- Staff education
- Organizational skills
- Sterile field management
- Emergency response
- Surgical counts
Accomplishments
- Surgical Preparation - Assisted in patient surgery preparation by administering proper medication, monitoring patients' conditions and charting abnormalities.
- Explained procedures to families about the Organ Procurement process. Empathy, and sensitivity when interacting with donor families, strong clinical knowledge, ability to work under pressure, medical documentation, understanding of the organ donation process, and the ability to collaborate effectively with a multidisciplinary team. I am able to navigate sensitive situations with grieving families while ensuring the smooth operation of organ procurement procedures.
- Documentation - Ensured charting accuracy through precise documentation.
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Certification
- Basic Life Support Certification (BLS)
Timeline
Registered Nurse, Operating Room
Novant Health
06.2022 - Current
Surgical Technologists
Novant Health
09.2017 - Current
Surgical Technologist
Greenwich Hospital
06.2000 - 01.2017
Associate of Science - Nursing
Brunswick Community College
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