RaShonda Edwards

• Utilized sterile techniques and infection-control guidelines to maintain clean and safe environment.
• Coordinated with surgeons and staff to deliver safe patient care during operations.
• Implemented time-out protocols before starting surgeries, verifying correct patient identification and procedural details.
• Prepared equipment and supplies necessary for each surgical procedure, ensuring availability when needed by surgeons.
• Assisted physicians in operating room by providing necessary supplies and equipment.
• Performed pre-operative assessments to prepare patients for surgery.

• Coordinates patient care before, during, and after surgical procedure.
• Provides emotional support to the patient.
• Assists the anesthesiology team during the initiation and emergence of anesthesia.
• Ensures patient safety, positioning and monitoring the patient.
• Enforces policies and procedures throughout the surgery, including a time-out.
• Maintains sterile technique while providing supplies and equipment for the sterile team.
• Documents all nursing care during the intraoperative period and makes sure specimens are labeled correctly.
• Protects patients from hazards.
• Ensures that all surgical counts are correct with the scrub tech.
• Communicates relevant information to patients' family members and other healthcare workers.

OR circulator of various specialties including general, urology, ENT, orthopedics, neurosurgery, spine, vascular, gynecology, bariatrics, pediatrics, robotics and colorectal.

Coordinated care for patients who were visiting for their doctors appointments of multiple specialties including: Orthopedics, Plastics, ENT, Dermatology, Podiatry, Urology, Neurology, and Neurosurgery.

• Updated patient charts with data such as medications to keep records current and support accurate treatments.
• Managed patients' pain by implementing pharmacological and non-pharmacological pain management interventions.
• Provided direct patient care, stabilized patients, and determined next course of action.

• Collaborated with physicians to quickly assess patients and deliver appropriate treatment while managing rapidly changing conditions.
• Administered medications via oral, IV, and intramuscular injections and monitored responses.
• Educated patients, families and caregivers on diagnosis and prognosis, treatment options, disease process, and management and lifestyle options.
• Provided direct patient care, stabilized patients, and determined next course of action.
• Managed care from admission to discharge.
• Trained new nurses in proper techniques, care standards, operational procedures, and safety protocols.
• Updated patient charts with data such as medications to keep records current and support accurate treatments.
• Performed emergency medical procedures such as BLS, ACLS and other condition stabilizing interventions.
• Managed caseload of up to 7 patients simultaneously by providing bedside care, treatments, IV therapy, and wound care.