Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Certification
Timeline
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Paige Mezzacapa

Paige Mezzacapa

Wagoner,OK

Summary

Certified Surgical Technology professional with in-depth knowledge and experience assisting in surgical operations under the supervision of surgeons, registered nurses, or other surgical personnel. Experience setting up operating rooms, preparing, and transporting patients for surgery, adjusting lights and equipment, passing instruments and other supplies to surgeons and surgeons' assistants, holding retractors, cutting sutures, and counting sponges, needles, supplies, and instruments. I am very familiar with operating room equipment, emergency equipment, surgical instruments, instrument care, implants, instrument maintenance, instrument cleaning, sterilization techniques, recognizing surgical equipment malfunctions and perform troubleshooting protocol, conducting routine preventive maintenance, understanding surgical procedures, sterile technique, aseptic technique, and quickly learn techniques of surgeons through acute observation and adaptability.

Professional healthcare specialist with solid background in surgical environments. Skilled in aseptic techniques, instrument sterilization, and surgical assistance. Strong focus on team collaboration and achieving results, adapting seamlessly to changing needs. Reliable, organized, and committed to patient safety and efficient surgical procedures.

Meticulous CST excited to bring 20+-years background to growing organization. Knowledgeable in all aspects of surgery, including setting up operating rooms, preparing patients and assisting surgeons. Committed to maintaining highest standards of health and safety.

Overview

34
34
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Certified Scrub Technician

Mercy Hospital-Lebanon - Rolla
08.2022 - 10.2022
  • Assist in General, Ophthalmology, OB & Gyn, Endoscopy, Orthopedic and Pain Procedures
  • Provide support for surgeons and Registered Nurses
  • Prepare and maintain sterile field.
  • Obtain Specimens
  • Transport patients
  • Access my Surgery Director in outreach community projects/education.
  • Precept new graduates
  • Precept new hires throughout their orientation
  • Track Implants and make sure we have for upcoming scheduled cases.
  • Make changes as needed to surgeons’ preference cards.
  • Travel Contract
  • Permanent Employee

Certified Scrub Technician

Cox Surgery Center
03.2021 - 08.2022
  • Assist in surgery for six surgeons.
  • Maintained a sterile field to provide support for physicians and nurses during cataracts, vitrectomies, Lasik and PRK’s
  • Corneal transplants, extropians, entropion and blepharoplasty
  • Prepare and maintain instruments and equipment.
  • Run the Vitrectomy and Phaco emulsification machine.
  • Obtain specimens.
  • Transport patients
  • Worked in preop and postop
  • Discharged patients.

CST - Endo Tech

Cox Health
12.2020 - 03.2021
  • Maintained a sterile field to provide support for physicians and nurses during endoscopy procedures.
  • Prepare and maintain instruments and equipment.
  • Obtain specimens.
  • Transport patients
  • Processed scopes after hours.
  • 13-week Travel Contract

Certified Scrub Technician

Hillcrest Hospital Cushing
05.2009 - 12.2020
  • Company Overview: Previously known as Cushing Hospital
  • Assist in operations, under the supervision of surgeons, registered nurses, or other surgical personnel.
  • Prepare and transport patients for surgery.
  • Adjust lights and equipment.
  • Pass instruments and other supplies to surgeon’s and surgeon’s assistants, hold retractors, cut sutures, and help count sponges, needles, supplies, and instruments.
  • Keep inventory of anesthesia supplies and reordered as necessary
  • Keep track of the inventory of Soft Goods and place weekly order
  • Did month end paperwork and submitted reports of all Central Sterile

Bristow Hospital / CORE
01.1996 - 05.2009
  • Assist in the OR, Under the supervision of surgeons, registered nurses, or other surgical personnel.
  • Help set up the Operating room.
  • Prepare and transport patients for surgery.
  • Adjust lights and equipment.
  • Pass instruments and other supplies to surgeon’s and surgeon’s assistants, hold retractors, cut suture, and help count sponges, needles and reordered as necessary

United States Navy
04.1989 - 04.1993
  • Honorable Discharge
  • Hospital Corpsman
  • Active Duty
  • Reservist

Education

Diploma - Surgical Technologist Course

Central Tech
Drumright, Oklahoma

Diploma - undefined

Cushing High School
Cushing, Oklahoma
01.1986

Skills

  • Surgical equipment handling
  • Sterile technique proficiency
  • Operating room etiquette
  • Critical thinking
  • Motivation and initiative
  • Professionalism and ethics
  • Documentation and record keeping
  • Continuous learning attitude
  • Communication and teamwork
  • Medical terminology
  • Problem-solving capacity
  • Surgical instrumentation
  • Instrument sterilization procedures

Certification

  • Basic Life Support (BLS)
  • American Heart Association (AHA)
  • Current
  • Certified Surgical Technologist (CST)
  • Certificate Number: 195199
  • Expiration Date: 2026-02-22
  • The National Board of Surgical Technology and Surgical Assisting

Timeline

Certified Scrub Technician

Mercy Hospital-Lebanon - Rolla
08.2022 - 10.2022

Certified Scrub Technician

Cox Surgery Center
03.2021 - 08.2022

CST - Endo Tech

Cox Health
12.2020 - 03.2021

Certified Scrub Technician

Hillcrest Hospital Cushing
05.2009 - 12.2020

Bristow Hospital / CORE
01.1996 - 05.2009

United States Navy
04.1989 - 04.1993

Diploma - Surgical Technologist Course

Central Tech

Diploma - undefined

Cushing High School
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