Michelle Stehr
Registered Nurse
Decatur,AL
Summary
To seek and maintain full-time position that offers professional challenges utilizing interpersonal skills, excellent time management and problem-solving skills. Team-oriented and reliable with expert healthcare knowledge, clear verbal and written communication skills and sound clinical judgment.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Registered Nurse
Crestwood Medical Center
Huntsville, Alabama
01.2022 - Current
- Sound, ethical and independent decision-making ability consistent with medical protocols
- Interview patients to obtain medical information prior to surgery
- Accountable for all charting details of procedures in operating room
- Work as part of team to ensure proper care of body mechanics and safety of patients
- Provide high level of individualized care to adult patients across multiple medical specialties
- Provide direct support to surgical team during procedures
- Collect, label and transported specimens to lab for testing
- Prepare OR by ensuring it met aseptic standards, as well as setting out, organizing and counting all tools and equipment necessary for each procedure.
Registered Nurse/Scrub Nurse
Huntsville Hospital Cardiovascular Operating Room
Huntsville, Alabama
08.2018 - Current
- Provide skilled, professional care to patients while in operating room, all based on national practice standards
- Use assessment skills to identify further care needs and evaluate patients' health status
- Use equipment effectively to assess patient needs and provide appropriate care in operating room
- Document and record patients' progress in accurate manner
- Perform scrub functions including selection and handling of instruments and supplies used during cardiac and thoracic procedures
- Prepare operating rooms and instrumentation in advance of planned surgeries
- Assist doctors, nurses, and other operating personnel during procedures
- Worked cross-functionally as scrub nurse and circulating nurse
- Maintain sterility of room and instruments
- Anticipate needs of surgeon/assistant.
Registered Nurse/Scrub Nurse
St. Vincent's East
Birmingham, Alabama
05.2018 - 08.2018
- Perform scrub functions including selection and handling of instruments and supplies used during surgical procedure
- Perform circulating functions including monitoring, recording, and communicating patient conditioning and managing overall nursing care of patient before, during and after procedure
- Directly assisting operating physician with surgical task including hemostasis, suturing and wound exposure as well as patient positioning
- Prepare operating rooms, surgical instruments, and equipment for use
- Participate as multi-disciplinary team member to provide professional patient care and complete/fulfill all physician orders, delivery of medications, medical treatments, lab tests and other patient needs in timely manner
- Worked cross-functionally as scrub nurse and circulating nurse.
Registered Nurse/Surgical Nurse
Northeast Georgia Medical Center
Gainesville, GA
01.2018 - 04.2018
- Perform scrub functions including selection and handling of instruments and supplies used during surgical procedure
- Perform circulating functions including monitoring, recording, and communicating patient conditioning and managing overall nursing care of patient before, during and after procedure
- Directly assisting operating physician with surgical task including hemostasis, suturing and wound exposure as well as patient positioning
- Participate as multi-disciplinary team member to provide professional patient care and complete/fulfill all physician orders, delivery of medications, medical treatments, lab tests and other patient needs in timely manner
- Prepare operating rooms, surgical instruments, and equipment for use
- Worked cross-functionally as scrub nurse and circulating nurse.
Registered Nurse/Surgical Nurse
Decatur General Hospital
Decatur, AL
12.2004 - 12.2017
- Provide skilled, professional care to patients while in operating room, all based on national practice standards
- Use assessment skills to identify further care needs and evaluate patients' health status
- Participate as multi-disciplinary team member to provide professional patient care and complete/fulfill all physician orders, delivery of medications, medical treatments, lab tests and other patient needs in timely manner
- Use equipment effectively to assess patient needs and provide appropriate care in operating room
- Document and record patients' progress in accurate manner
- Responsible for ordering all specialty vascular grafts and supplies
- Prepare operating rooms and instrumentation in advance of planned surgeries
- Assist doctors, nurses, and other operating personnel during procedures
- Respond to surgeon request for instruments during procedures
- Selects and passes instruments to surgeons
- Maintain sterility of room and instruments
- Worked cross-functionally as scrub nurse and circulating nurse
- Anticipate needs of surgeon/assistant
- Perform all necessary counts.
Education
Associate of Science - Nursing
Calhoun Community College
Decatur, AL08.2010
Certification - Surgical Technology
Calhoun Community College
Decatur, AL08.2005
Skills
- Computerized charting specialist (Epic, Cerner, Meditech, Surgical Information Systems)
- Strong clinical judgment
- Patient and family advocacy
- Problem resolution capability
- Privacy and Confidentiality
- Patient Assessments
- Medical Records Management
- Documentation Accuracy
- Airway Management
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Certification
- Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification, 2004, present
- ACLS Certification, 2018, present
- Registered Nurse Alabama MSL 1-128201
- Registered Nurse California 95366983
- Registered Nurse Massachusetts RN10003364
- CNOR Certification 1753550, 07/01/21, present
Timeline
Registered Nurse
Crestwood Medical Center
01.2022 - Current
Registered Nurse/Scrub Nurse
Huntsville Hospital Cardiovascular Operating Room
08.2018 - Current
Registered Nurse/Scrub Nurse
St. Vincent's East
05.2018 - 08.2018
Registered Nurse/Surgical Nurse
Northeast Georgia Medical Center
01.2018 - 04.2018
Registered Nurse/Surgical Nurse
Decatur General Hospital
12.2004 - 12.2017
Associate of Science - Nursing
Calhoun Community College
Certification - Surgical Technology
Calhoun Community College
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