Melissa Compton

• Assist surgeons during operations by preparing and providing surgical instruments and sterile supplies for procedures and necessary.
• Maintain a sterile environment in the operating room at all times and using aseptic technique throughout the procedure.
• Collaborate with nurses to ensure patient safety and comfort.
• Assisted surgeons during operative procedures by anticipating their needs and passing instruments.
• Ensure that all equipment was functioning properly prior to use in the operating room.
• Prepared operating room for surgical procedures, including setting up sterile field.
• Performed instrument counts before, during, and after surgeries as required by hospital policy.
• Helped maintain an organized working environment in the OR through cleaning, stocking supplies, and organizing equipment carts.

Assisted with scrubbing in for each case as needed.

• Performed various duties such as applying dressings to incisions sites postoperatively.
• Scrubbed arms and hands and assisted surgical team with scrubbing, masks and surgical clothing.
• Maintained proper sterile field during surgical procedures.
• Operated or monitored lights, machines or equipment to support proper operation.
• Prepared patients for surgery by positioning on operating table and covering with sterile surgical drapes to prevent exposure.
• Assessed procedure requirements and procured appropriate equipment and tools.
• Proficiency with many procedures using the Da Vinci Xi.
• Experience in wide range of cases among many specialities
• Organized and maintained unobstructed operative fields to foster immediate access to retractors and suctioning and irrigation equipment.
• Respond quickly to changes in patient status or emergency situations.
• Use retractors, sponges and suctioning and irrigating equipment to create unobstructed operating fields.

• Pre and post operative patient care.
• Admitting patients for surgery procedures including pre operative testing and vitals such has glucose and HCG.
• Post Anesthesia care for patients.
• Covid testing along with follow up covid screening calls.
• Post operation patient calls day after procedures.
• Pre Operative reminder calls.
• Complete History and Physicals for patients having surgical procedures.
• Assess patients charts for Anesthesia clearance prior to surgery.
• Create charts per doctor's preference.
• Assist in operation room turn overs.
• Completing chart audits along with logging case/procedure information along with Normatherma surgical cases into Excel spreadsheet.
• Training employees on new policy and procedures and creating training material for Doctors and Employees in various positions.
• Train new employees on front desk operations, answer phone, and check in patients along with taking payments.
• Osha compliance officer for facility.
• Works closely with each doctors Medical Assistant to assure patient is clear to have surgery at ASC.
• Receives shipments and stocks each area of Surgical Center as needed.
• In charge of Monthly outdates along with quarterly disaster plans.

• Roomed patients, took vitals, assisted with procedures, refill request along with prior authorizations for refills, patient care, calls and follow ups per doctor request, fmla and all other paperwork needed for patients care, scrub doctors daily schedule, triage incoming calls.
• On the patient experience board.
• Assisted in creating policy’s and protocols for COVID testing in Feb 2020.