Overview
Work History
Education
Licensure
Accomplishments
Businesses
Professional Organizations
Additional Information
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KATHRYN CHAFIZADEH, RN, BSN, CNOR, RNFA

Austin

Overview

38
38
years of professional experience

Work History

OR Staff Nurse

St. David's Medical Center
01.2017 - Current
  • Leads as Plastics Coordinator 10/2020 to 8/22
  • Circulates mainly in Plastics and Oncology (breast)
  • Functions as Nurse Circulator in busy OR with 26 rooms, trained in all subspecialties represented, most experience in Orthopedics, and Neuro-Spine, General, with call duty at least 4 times per month
  • Educates as preceptor for new grads and new nurses to OR in Specialty Nurse Accelerated Program, supplementing Periop 101 Curriculum from AORN

Per Diem PACU/OR Staff Nurse

Austin Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery
12.2020 - 12.2022
  • Circulates, Recovers, Monitors for moderate sedation

School Nurse Volunteer

Trinity Episcopal School
04.2000 - 12.2014

Staff Nurse/SICU & MICU

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
01.1994 - 05.1997

Lung Transplant Coordinator

Baylor College of Medicine
04.1991 - 02.1993

Staff Nurse, CVICU Charge Nurse

Houston Methodist DeBakey Heart and Vascular Center
02.1986 - 04.1991

Education

RN First Assistant

National Institute of First Assisting
Centennial, CO
04.2024

Bachelor of Science - Nursing

University of Wisconsin
Madison, WI
1985

Licensure

Texas Board of Nurse Examiners License # 52907 March 1986-present

Accomplishments

  • 07/2020-12/2025: CNOR
  • 02/27/2023-2025: AHA BLS
  • 11/2022: AHA ACLS
  • 01-8/2017: Periop 101 AORN Course
  • 09/2005: Master Gardener, Travis County, Austin, TX, 13-week course
  • 09/1995: Professional Chefs Program Cambridge School of Culinary Arts, 37-week culinary program

Businesses

Barefoot Gardener, LLC: 2010-2013 Landscaping, with emphasis on plant selection and placement.

Professional Organizations

International Society of Plastic and Aesthetic Nurses

Association of periOperative Registered Nurses

Additional Information

06/2017, 11/2016, 06/2015 trips. University of Notre Dame-Haiti Program, Hospital Sainte Croix, Leogane, Haiti. Performed triage and wound care in traveling clinic. Organize and support fundraising.

02/2015-2018: Crossroads Scholarship Fund. Mentor a student from freshman to graduation. Support fundraising.

Timeline

Per Diem PACU/OR Staff Nurse

Austin Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery
12.2020 - 12.2022

OR Staff Nurse

St. David's Medical Center
01.2017 - Current

School Nurse Volunteer

Trinity Episcopal School
04.2000 - 12.2014

Staff Nurse/SICU & MICU

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
01.1994 - 05.1997

Lung Transplant Coordinator

Baylor College of Medicine
04.1991 - 02.1993

Staff Nurse, CVICU Charge Nurse

Houston Methodist DeBakey Heart and Vascular Center
02.1986 - 04.1991

RN First Assistant

National Institute of First Assisting

Bachelor of Science - Nursing

University of Wisconsin

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