Kerrie Reynolds

• Kept count of all surgical instruments and sponges used during operations and procedures.
• Prepped operating rooms to comply with environmental asepsis standards.
• Collaborated with members of patients' healthcare team to deliver appropriate level of care including Same Day Surgical Nurses and Recovery Nurses, ER and Floor Nurses as indicated.
• Collaborated with physicians to quickly assess patients and deliver appropriate treatment while managing rapidly changing conditions during intraoperative time frame and postoperative if indicated.
• Monitored surgical patients and delivered quality level of care before, during and after operations to promote positive outcomes.
• Provided direct support to surgical team during procedures and worked as a team to properly position patient safely and according to Doctor needs.
• Advocated for and strived to protect health, safety, and rights of patient.
• Collected, labeled and transported specimens and delivered to lab for testing.
• Assessed team members' workloads and pitched in to help in areas where need was most evident.
• Effectively prioritized assignments, executing care based on each patient's relative condition and delegating tasks to available personnel deliver safe and efficient care.
• Implemented medication and IV administration, catheter insertion, as ordered per surgeon and according to hospital quality standards and AORN recommendations.
• Assist with Intubation and airway management as needed per CRNA.
• Worked within interdisciplinary health care team to develop, implement and make adjustments to patient care plans, individualizing strategies, and methods to improve health and meet recovery goals as indicated per intraoperative care plan while charting.
• Gathered patient health data through interviews and observation, documenting data in electronic records.
• Performed preoperative assessments on patients and evaluated overall health, Reviewed and implemented required documentation as required per Doctors orders and Hospital Policy.
• Precepted student nurses and oriented new hires, providing guidance and mentorship when teaching on hospital policies, emergency procedures, and nursing best practices.
• As BOARD RUNNER would oversee operational consistency of daily cases and management of timely case starts. Required to trouble shoot as needed and not limited to doctor delays, patient delays, emergency add on cases, staff needs and operating room needs regarding unsterile or faulty equipment or instruments. This position required acting as liaison for communication between doctors and hospital departments in hopes to implement smooth transition of change when needed.

Working as an Outpatient OR Circulator. All descriptions fall under the same heading as previously stated in last job description.

• Completed individual assessment of patient and baby needs to establish care plans, monitor progress and determine outcomes that result in healthy mom and baby post delivery.
• Assisted physician during delivery, examination and surgical procedures by anticipating needs, encouraging patient, and attending to baby after birth.
• Collaborated with physicians to quickly assess patients and deliver appropriate treatment while managing rapidly changing conditions.
• Supported physicians in both planned and emergency Cesarean section procedures.
• Coached new mothers with breastfeeding techniques, postpartum self-care and infant care to promote easier transition into motherhood.
• Responded to emergency situations such as pre-eclampsia, early labor, and fetal distress.
• Coordinated care of low and high-risk laboring women of childbearing age and immediate stabilization of newborn following delivery.
• Administered medications via oral, IV, and intramuscular injections and monitored responses.
• Aided with induction of labor for women suffering from complications such as preeclampsia.
• Worked closely with doctors and midwives in coaching pregnant women through childbirth and post-natal recovery.
• Conferred with physicians to discuss diagnoses and devise well-coordinated treatment approaches.
• Educated patients, families and caregivers on diagnosis and prognosis, treatment options, disease process, and management and lifestyle options.