Kimiko Kojima Schutte, RN, BSN

• Conscientious assistant to the nurse in all acute medical procedures and care.
• Performed as a monitor technician by interpreting continuous EKG for the Intensive Care Unit and Cardiac Care Unit patients.
• Appointed to Code Blue team.

Provides, maintains and implements orientation plan for new graduate nurses and scrub technicians to the operating room in a 6 month training course.

Onboards new experienced nurses and scrub technicians to the operating room.

Provides educational in-services and annual training to current perioperative staff of over 100.

Provides educational in-services to medical students bi-monthly.

Maintain and write new perioperative policies.

Formed, educated new liver transplant team and developed policies for all liver transplant procedures.

Organizing safety, equipment, medication, and emergency training for new surgery center.

Leads UBPC, laser safety and EMR perioperative committees.

A member of perioperative leadership.

• Maintain optimum standards of surgical nursing practice by providing continuity of patient care through pre-operative assessment, planning; operative implementation and post-operative evaluation.
• Scrub and circulate on a variety of surgical cases including plastic/reconstructive, trauma, orthopedic, laparoscopic, cardiac, thoracic, transplant, vascular, ENT, podiatry and general surgery.
• Participate in education demonstration using new, innovative surgical techniques and equipment.
• Mentor and orientate new nurses to the operating room.
• Partnered with team of registered nurses to achieve overall well-being of all patients.
• Coordinated with other healthcare professionals to assess, plan and implement patient care plans.
• Administered medications as prescribed and checked for any contradictions or any potential complications that the nursing staff needed to be aware of.
• Prepared the OR by ensuring it met asepsis standards, as well as setting out, organizing and counting all tools and equipment necessary for each procedure. 

• Accountable for the researching, reviewing and the purchasing of new medical products.
• Provide, coordinate and conduct educational presentations of the medical products, pharmaceuticals and vaccines for the medical sales representatives.
• Responsible for the development of professional relationships between manufactures/vendors and a medical sales team of 30 representatives.
• Determine effective pricing of items to maintain an excellent profitability for the company.

• Learned the responsibilities of using surgical instrumentation, aseptic technique, patient safety, legal aspects and how to assist surgeons during a wide variety of surgical procedures.
• Responded to surgical emergency requirements such as cardiac, respiratory failure and hemorrhage.