Khalila Kay Merriman
Randolph,MA
Summary
PROFESSIONAL STATEMENT:
Medical industry professional person with recent experiences in sterile processing specializing in endoscope reprocessing and endoscopy technician. Previous experiences include dental coding and billing and twenty years customer service.
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
Work History
Endoscopy Technician
Compunnel Healthcare Travel Agency, Beth Isreal Lahey
Burlington
07.2022 - 11.2022
- Prepares room for patient and physician for upper and lower GI procedures
- Cost effectively manages equipment necessary for procedure
- Maintains peripheral procedural par levels
- Manage specimen capture and labeling
- Responsible for cleaning and handling scope equipment
- Responsible for managing complex disinfection equipment.
- Supported physicians and nursing staff during procedures
- Maintained all safety protocols and processes when cleaning, disinfecting and sterilizing endoscopes and related equipment
- Adhered to safety procedures during cleaning, disinfecting and sterilizing endoscopes and related equipment
- Prepared patients for procedures to assist doctors, nurses and support staff
- Prepared patients for procedures by measuring vital statistics and applying necessary monitoring equipment
- Completed tasks to assist medical staffs during procedures
- Prepared for upcoming procedures by effectively setting up and tearing down rooms
CRCST Technician
Maxim Travel, Brigham and Woman’s Hospital
10.2021 - 06.2022
- Cleans endoscopes for use in clinical and operating room settings
- Prepares surgical equipment per universal precautions
- Able to understand all aspects of central sterile processing.
- Diagnosed and troubleshot problems, repairing, and restoring machines to peak performance
- Inspected equipment to diagnose operational issues
- Evaluated systems according to predetermined checklist and noted issues
- Tended to machines, troubleshot malfunctions and completed basic repairs to keep equipment fully functional and well-maintained
Endoscopy Technician
Children’s Hospital
Boston
04.2021 - 10.2021
- Prepares room for patient for endoscopic procedure
- Boston, MA
- Prepares scope for doctor and deciphers which scope is sufficient for patient
- Restocks and organizes procedure room for the next day
Endoscopy Technician
Boston Medical Center
Boston, MA
09.2020 - 04.2021
- Assists with patient preparation and positioning in Endoscopic suite
- Assist the Doctors with endoscopic procedures, colonoscopy and endoscopy
- Under direct supervision of endoscopy physician, carefully assist with polypectomy snares, biopsy forceps and ERBE
- Utilize Provation computer program
- Assists and set up in-hospital travel cases.
Endoscopy Central Processing Tech, Boston Medical Center
Boston, MA
12.2018 - 09.2020
- Fiscally conscientious
- Participate in meetings with a team of peers, managers and trauma team in a cohesive effort to ensure par levels are maintained
- Accepted promotion to ENT specialty clinic to perform endoscope management and reprocessing
- Train colleagues on proper scopes reprocessing in the Otolaryngology department specializing in all ENF Olympus scopes and Automated Endoscope Reprocessing and maintenance
- Assess competency in endoscope reprocessing techniques
- Facilitated clinical instrumentation wrapping to identify OTO clinical instrumentation from the OR’s ENT department
- Simplified OTO’s inventory list to reflect instrumentation used in clinic
- Ability to produce a high volume of scopes per clinical needs.
Central Processing Technician I/II
Boston Medical Center
Boston, MA
01.2017 - 01.2018
- Maintain a clean and safe environment while observing all personal protective equipment standards, precautions and infection control practices
- Accountable for verifying equipment functionality and processing equipment defects to ensure patient safety
- Operate and maintain disinfection and ultrasonic washers perform liquid based sterilization methods for specialized equipment
- Operate steam autoclaves, Steris 100NX and 100S hydrogen peroxide sterilizers and high level disinfection using Medivator blocks
- Maintain, observe and identify equipment discrepancies, submit work requests and maintain equipment records
- Assemble, document, account for and package all instrumentation sets according to department protocols
- Prepare and distribute operating room instruments and modules per preference request.
Events Manager/Wait-staff/Bartender
Rebecca’s Café/Campbell Bewley Group Ltd
Burlington, MA
01.2011 - 01.2017
- Obtain banquet event order (BEO) and manage onsite food and beverage inventory by matching the product with the inventory sheet and BEO
- Maintain solid communications with multiple client customers at a time to ensure their event is being carried out with the highest attention to their needs
- Act as an important liaison between client and sales staff, kitchen chef and event staff and delivery drivers resulting in maintaining client confidence in the ability of their chosen catering company
- Coordinate the direction of 12 and more staff members according to the BEO for events as large as 200+ people on the visual aesthetics and preparation of event area
- Provide time management leadership by communicating with the chef, sales person and client on the job site to ensure event deadlines and schedules are met.
Certified Registered Central Service Technician
s Hospital
01.2016 - 07.2016
- Student at St
- Elizabeth, Consistently adhere to all applicable regulations, policies and procedures for health safety and environmental compliance
- Performed case pick and assembly of case carts for use in the operating room
- Decontaminated hospital instrument sets and checked consignment sheets
- Cleaned and performed leak tests of flexible endoscopes, reprocessed and stored items per AAMI/ANSI standards
- Sterilized instrument sets using steam and hydrogen peroxide sterilizing methods.
Educational Support Assistant
Boston University School of Dental Medicine
Boston, MA
01.2005 - 01.2007
- Supported a team of pre-doctoral teaching faculty members by scheduling appointments with their mentees
- Each faculty member was assigned 750 pre-doctoral dental students over a course of several years
- Assisted students preparing materials needed for meeting
- Scheduled record reviews and competencies for faculty review with pre-doctoral students with their advisors
- Educated students to properly collate a paper chart system as to streamline the patient treatment plan to meet with advisors about patient progress which correlated it with student competencies.
- Monitored office supplies and re-ordered, working with senior staff to keep desired supplies in stock for seamless office functionality
- Coached employees through day-to-day work and complex problems
Patient Coordinator
Boston University School of Dental Medicine
Boston, MA
01.2002 - 01.2005
- Greeted 200 patients over three clinical each sessions each day and provided excellent customer service
- Answered phones, helped to maintained schedules, and posted charges for procedures for a busy dental office
- Collected payments for dental procedures and performed ending balances and scheduled return appointments
- Ordered paper chart inserts, arranged storage and kept orders in full supply
- Helped lead the team which was instrumental in the successful integration of a new dental system put in place throughout the entire dental university.
Education
Certificate – Basic Life Saving Certificate – Certified Endoscope Reprocessor - undefined
7.2019
IAHCSMM - undefined
6.2017
Bachelor of Business Administration - Healthcare Management
American InterContinental University
2013
Certificate - Certified Registered Central Services Technician II -
MassBay Community College
06.2017
Skills
- Able to learn new computer systems and able work with diverse career level colleagues Knowledge with creating new Excel formats, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint Experience with Epic, Provation (Endo), Centrix and SPM computer systems
- HIPAA
- Educating patients
- Measuring vital signs
- Infection control standards
- Quality assurance
- Active Listening
- PPE Compliance
- Cultural Awareness
- Dependable and Responsible
- Analytical and Critical Thinking
- Flexible and Adaptable
Timeline
Endoscopy Technician
Compunnel Healthcare Travel Agency, Beth Isreal Lahey
07.2022 - 11.2022
CRCST Technician
Maxim Travel, Brigham and Woman’s Hospital
10.2021 - 06.2022
Endoscopy Technician
Children’s Hospital
04.2021 - 10.2021
Endoscopy Technician
Boston Medical Center
09.2020 - 04.2021
Endoscopy Central Processing Tech, Boston Medical Center
12.2018 - 09.2020
Central Processing Technician I/II
Boston Medical Center
01.2017 - 01.2018
Certified Registered Central Service Technician
s Hospital
01.2016 - 07.2016
Events Manager/Wait-staff/Bartender
Rebecca’s Café/Campbell Bewley Group Ltd
01.2011 - 01.2017
Educational Support Assistant
Boston University School of Dental Medicine
01.2005 - 01.2007
Patient Coordinator
Boston University School of Dental Medicine
01.2002 - 01.2005
Certificate – Basic Life Saving Certificate – Certified Endoscope Reprocessor - undefined
IAHCSMM - undefined
Bachelor of Business Administration - Healthcare Management
American InterContinental University
Certificate - Certified Registered Central Services Technician II -
MassBay Community College
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