Piyush Patel
Flemington,NJ
Summary
Certified Sterile Processing professional with experience in decontamination, sterilization, and equipment maintenance. Strong focus on team collaboration and achieving results, adaptable to changing needs and workflows. Skilled in maintaining compliance with healthcare standards, ensuring patient safety, and managing inventory efficiently. Known for reliability, precision, and effective communication in high-pressure environments.
Overview
22
22
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Certified Sterile Processing Technician
Hunterdon Healthcare System
04.2005 - Current
- Team player and capacity to learn quickly in fast paced environment.
- Train new employees, lead the department for work duties.
- Detail oriented, responsible, focused and able to work under pressure.
- Providing excellent customer service for problem resolution.
- Played a crucial role in maintaining Joint Commission accreditation through adherence to best practices in sterile processing operations.
- Ensure that all processes meet manufacturer recommendation standards for decontamination, sterilization, assembly and packaging of reprocessed supplies and equipment to internal and external customers.
- Specialize service using high level disinfection; cardiac probe, cancer center probe, nasopharyngeal probe etc.
- Responsible for the proper care, cleaning and decontamination of all the surgical instrumentation include specialized electromechanical equipment cams, scopes, drill, loaner, davinci; while observing all the departmental operating procedures, safety protocols, ad technical standards.
- Decontaminate, process, sterilize, and prepare flexible and rigid scopes.
- Responsible for quick turnaround for operating room and priorities operating instruments for the next day cases.
- Log Temperature and humidity daily and perform wash checks in the ultrasonic and washers.
- Reprocess satellite instruments from various location.
- Breaking down OR surgical instruments, sterilize 'One Tray', and terminal sterilization.
- Place dirty instruments back into container and send down for reprocessing.
- Put sterilized trays away in operating room, pick trays for sharpening, and help locate misplaced items.
- Maintained a clean and organized work environment for efficient processing of medical equipment.
- Collaborated with the surgical team, providing timely delivery of sterile equipment during surgeries.
- Identified parameters and sterilization method required for each item to be sterilized.
- Inspected sterile package integrity prior to distribution.
- Handled and disposed of sharps, biohazards and other hazardous materials in accordance with established protocols.
- Supported operational excellence by accurately assembling instrument trays according to procedure-specific requirements.
Sterile Processing Technician
Somerset Medical Center
09.2002 - 11.2004
- Performs and participates in decontamination, cleaning, assembling, packaging, scanning, sterilization, storage and distribution of reusable surgical instrumentation and equipment
- Deliver items from sterile processing department to other areas of the hospital, pick up rounds from floor (dirty utility rooms), answer phones
- Picked case cart for operating room
- Perform all cleaning duties as needed
Education
Bachelor's -
Lal Bhadhur Shastry State College
Gujarat, India.03.1998
Skills
- Ethics and professionalism
- Decision-making
- Attention to detail
- Excellent communication
- Problem-solving abilities
- Troubleshooting ability
- Microsoft Office
- Bilingual English/Gujarati/Hindi
- Microsoft Office
- Bilingual English/Gujarati/Hindi
Certification
CBSPD Certification, February 2007 to February 2027.
Additional Information
Experienced, highly motivated professional with solid background in Sterile Processing technology seeking a rewarding and challenging position in the healthcare industry that will allow me to capitalize on my experience while making possible my personal as well as professional growth and at the same time positively contributing to the expansion and thrives of the organization.
Personal Information
- Title: Sr. Sterile Processing Tech.
Timeline
Certified Sterile Processing Technician
Hunterdon Healthcare System
04.2005 - Current
Sterile Processing Technician
Somerset Medical Center
09.2002 - 11.2004
Bachelor's -
Lal Bhadhur Shastry State College
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