Margaret McDonald
Monticello,IL
Overview
46
46
years of professional experience
Work History
Certified Surgical First Assistant
Carle Hospital
Urbana, Illinois
06.1978 - Current
- Assisted surgeon in prepping and draping patients for surgery.
- Provided appropriate instruments, sutures and supplies to the operating room staff.
- Performed scrub duties including gowning, gloving and sterilization of instruments.
- Assisted with tissue dissection, hemostasis, wound closure and other surgical procedures as required.
Education
Associate of Science - Surgical Technology
Parkland College
Champaign, IL05-1978
Skills
- Sterile technique
- Orthopedic Surgery
- Gynecological surgery
- Trauma Surgery
- Patient Positioning
- Cardiovascular Surgery
- Laparoscopic procedures
- General surgery
- Neurosurgery
- Setting up and operating equipment
- Patient transportation
- Pre- and post-surgical counts
- Safe sharps disposal
- Suturing
- Pre-surgical preparation
- OB/GYN procedures
- Patient identification
- Surgical support
- Teamwork and Cooperation
- Infection control protocols
- Organizational abilities
- Suture cutting
- Bandage application
- Proper positioning
- Wound Dressing
- Critical thinking abilities
- Anatomy and physiology understanding
Timeline
Certified Surgical First Assistant
Carle Hospital
06.1978 - Current
Associate of Science - Surgical Technology
Parkland College