Kasia Sobol
Summary
Strong leader and problem-solver dedicated to streamlining operations to maximize the Gift of Life and promote organizational efficiency. Skilled in working under pressure and adapting to new situations and challenges. Uses independent decision-making skills and sound judgment to positively impact company success.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Tissue Recovery Supervisor
Sierra Donor Services
Reno, NV
08.2023 - Current
- Supervises day-to-day operations of the recovery region - decedent tissue cases and birth tissue acquisitions.
- Assists with administrative functions such as hiring, training, and staff development.
- Facilitates the implementation of new policies and procedures and promotes adherence by ensuring day-to-day operations are conducted within these parameters.
- Assists department manager with the evaluation of staff by tracking and processing performance data.
- Responsible for on-site training of tissue recovery staff and the maintenance of training files and associated documentation.
- Performs Supervisor on Call (SOC) duties, including but not limited to screening of donor referrals and consented donors to ensure medical and regulatory eligibility.
- Obtains release for donation from Coroner/Medical Examiner staff.
- Coordinates the tissue donation process, including referrals, procurement, shipping, and tissue storage.
- Build and maintain positive, professional relationships with hospitals, funeral homes, and medical examiner staff.
- Ensures and promotes compliance with quality control measures dictated by federal, state, and local regulations.
- Participates in the quality assurance process to review donor charts and records for accuracy and completeness.
- Acts as a point of contact with contracted processing agencies regarding regional procurement issues.
- Manages supply levels required to meet daily, weekly, and monthly needs for a tissue recovery
Tissue Recovery Coordinator
Sierra Donor Services
01.2023 - Current
- Performs recovery of tissues for transplant in accordance with SDS standard operating procedures - musculoskeletal, skin, cornea, cardiovascular, and birth tissue
- Obtains Authorization from birth tissue donors and completing Uniform Donor Risk Assessment Interview
- Performs a medical chart review to determine suitability for a birth tissue donation.
- Acquisition, packaging/labeling, shipping, and storage of tissue and birth tissue.
- Follows, interprets, and implements all applicable standard operating procedures, regulations, and policies to ensure compliance
- Attains and maintains competency in the recovery of tissues from transplant.
- Performs collection, packaging, and shipment of tissue
- Performs clerical administrative functions to provide correct, complete documentation and ensure tissue safety.
Certified Surgical First Assistant
Atrium Surgical Assistant Services
L&D Northern Nevada Sierra Medical Center
07.2022 - Current
- Provide intraoperative skills such as visualization, trocar insertion, injection of local anesthetics, hemostasis, tissue handling, placement and securing of wound drains, and closure of body planes.
- Utilizes the OR equipment pertinent to the surgical procedure.
- Clamping, cauterizing, suturing, inserting, injecting, manipulating, retracting, cutting, and ligating tissue, as necessary.
- Involvement in hemostasis, including but not limited to the utilization of ties, vessel loops, clip appliers, digital pressure, packing, appropriate manipulation of sutures, etc.
- Initiates appropriate actions or instrumentation in collaboration with the surgeon.
- Utilizes appropriate suturing techniques, according to surgeon preference, with the closure of body planes and proper manipulation of the suture.
- Administrating local anesthetic, according to surgeon preference.
- Securing drainage systems.
- Applying dressings, splints, casts, and immobilizers/stabilizers, according to surgeon preference.
- Evaluate the patient for any possible damage from positioning.
- Maintain the sterility of the surgical field to anticipate the needs of the surgeons.
- Perform multiple procedures simultaneously or in secession.
- Supplying the operating room with the proper equipment and instrumentation required for specific surgery.
- Provide any assistance needed to expedite the room turnover, providing optimum customer service to the surgeon, patient, anesthesiologist, and co-workers.
Tissue Recovery Specialist - Traveler/Contract
Transplant Staffing Resources
04.2021 - 04.2023
- Performs recovery of tissue(s) for transplant and research, including musculoskeletal, skin, cornea, cardiovascular, and other specialized tissues, in accordance with standard operating procedures
- Follows, interprets, and implements all applicable standard operating procedures, regulations, and policies to ensure compliance
- Providing training for hosting OPO staff.
Tissue Recovery Coordinator
Donor Network West
04.2017 - 02.2022
- Performs recovery of tissue(s) for transplant and research in accordance with DNW standard operating procedures - musculoskeletal, skin, cornea, cardiovascular, spinal cord, vertebral bodies, dorsal root ganglions, and lungs
- Follows, interprets, and implements all applicable standard operating procedures, regulations, and policies to ensure compliance
- Oversees tissue recovery process to ensure safety and compliance with all applicable standard operating procedures, regulations, and policies
- Attains and maintains competency in the recovery of tissues from transplant and research
- Performs/supervises the collection, packaging, and shipment of tissue
- Performs clerical administrative functions to provide correct, complete documentation and ensure tissue safety and staff competency.
Surgical Technologist - Labor and Delivery
Renown Regional Medical Center
11.2016 - 09.2020
- Passing instruments in a timely fashion
- Under direct supervision, perform the following duties, but not limited to sponge or suction, holding retractors or instruments placed by the surgeons, applying electrocautery to clamps on bleeders, irrigation to the operative sight, cutting suture material, connecting drains to the suction apparatus, applies dressings to the wound
- Maintain the sterility of the surgical field to anticipate the needs of the surgeons.
- Perform multiple procedures simultaneously or in secession.
- Supplying the operating room with the proper equipment and instrumentation that is needed for specific surgery
- Once the procedure is completed, it is the responsibility to care for the instrumentation equipment and prepare for the following case.
- Provide any assistance needed to expedite the room turnover, providing optimum customer service to the surgeon, patient, anesthesiologist, and co-workers.
Administrative Assistant
EP Minerals
07.2013 - 11.2016
- Answer phones and be an initial point of contact for plant appointments and activities.
- Directing drivers to the appropriate bays for loading and processing all the paperwork for the shipment of the orders daily
- Track production schedules and orders
- Provide Bill of Ladings and ensure completion of the order entry.
- Ensure proper documentation matches all orders.
- Perform cycle counts on a weekly basis - product inventory.
- Generate certificates of analysis.
- Prepare Canadian documentation and certificates of origin.
- Provide support to the management staff as directed in a variety of applications and activities.
- Utilization of IFS Excel spreadsheets and Word documents
- Provide support to the management staff as directed in a variety of applications and activities.
- Complete accurate entry and accounting of all statistical reports.
- Enter and close all POs - taking care of inventory on hand and placing purchasing orders.
- Perform basic HR tasks (scheduling interviews, personnel filing, coordinating meetings, W2, open enrollments, etc.).
- Perform random drug screening for employees.
Clinical Laboratory Assistant
Renown Regional Medical Center
12.2011 - 07.2013
- Under the direction of the supervisor on duty (or CLS designated in charge), proficiently collects blood specimens in a timely manner as specified by laboratory policies and procedures and in accordance with federal and state regulations.
- Uses the laboratory information system to determine test status and keep nursing personnel informed to assist in and expedite patient care
- Telephone answering
- Non-blood specimen collections, sample handling, special procedures, customer support, and any clerical duties required
- Support for a 24-hour/7-day a-week operation to aid the physician in the diagnosis and treatment of patients
- Technical proficiency includes, but is not limited to, venipuncture, capillary collections, arterial collections, pediatric patients, and critical care patients.
- Responsible for training students, mentoring new personnel, and honing the skills of laboratory assistants at Levels I and II.
Education
Surgical First Assistant Program -
Royal Academy of Surgical Assisting
Aurora, CO10.2019
Associate of Science -
WNC
Carson City, NV2016
Clinical Lab Assistant Program -
TMCC Eno, NV
Reno, NV01.2011
Control and Audit, Postgraduate -
Higher School of Management And Law
Warsaw, Poland2008
MBA - Administration Law
Catholic University of Lublin
Lublin, Poland2007
BBA -
Higher School of Commerce
Radom, Poland2005
Skills
- Leadership
- Problem-solving
- Time management
- Planning
- Teamwork
- Conflict resolution
- Customer Service
- Critical Thinking
Certification
- American Board of Surgical Assistants - Certified Surgical Assistant
- American Association of Tissue Banks - Certified Tissue Bank Specialist
- BLS
- Determining Time of Death - https://www.ditacademyonline.org
- Establishing Identification of Deceased - https://www.ditacademyonline.org
- 12 Critical Mistakes Made at a Death Scene - https://www.ditacademyonline.org
- Understanding the Sciences in Death Investigation - https://www.ditacademyonline.org
Timeline
Tissue Recovery Supervisor
Sierra Donor Services
08.2023 - Current
Tissue Recovery Coordinator
Sierra Donor Services
01.2023 - Current
Certified Surgical First Assistant
Atrium Surgical Assistant Services
07.2022 - Current
Tissue Recovery Specialist - Traveler/Contract
Transplant Staffing Resources
04.2021 - 04.2023
Tissue Recovery Coordinator
Donor Network West
04.2017 - 02.2022
Surgical Technologist - Labor and Delivery
Renown Regional Medical Center
11.2016 - 09.2020
Administrative Assistant
EP Minerals
07.2013 - 11.2016
Clinical Laboratory Assistant
Renown Regional Medical Center
12.2011 - 07.2013
Surgical First Assistant Program -
Royal Academy of Surgical Assisting
Associate of Science -
WNC
Clinical Lab Assistant Program -
TMCC Eno, NV
Control and Audit, Postgraduate -
Higher School of Management And Law
MBA - Administration Law
Catholic University of Lublin
BBA -
Higher School of Commerce