Richard Lopez
CORPUS CHRISTI
Summary
Compassionate and dedicated healthcare professional that is a newly licensed Registered Nurse and Licensed Surgical First Assistant with over 15 years of experience in diverse healthcare settings. Looking for a new opportunity for growth as a Registered Nurse to provide skills in maintaining services beneficial to a healthcare organization. Self-starter, proficient multitasker and managing complex cases with providing compassionate patient-centered care.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
License First Assistant/Team Leader
Driscoll Children's Hospital
07.2016 - Current
- Monitor vitals of patients under anesthesia
- Used strong analytical and problem-solving skills to develop effective solutions for challenging situations.
- Provide retraction of tissue and organs for optimal visualization with regard to tissue type and appropriate retraction instrument and/or technique
- Report pertinent information regarding patient care to recovery room personnel
- Provide care in operating room settings; including positioning and draping
- Licensed first assistant-perform surgical procedures with surgeon, specializing and achieving skills in: Craniofacial and Plastics Surgery
- Organized professional with expertise in managing resources and optimizing performance. Proficient in providing valuable insights and supporting decision-making processes. Committed to enhancing productivity and contributing to overall success.
- Supervised and provided education to surgical team to provide a better working environment in the operating room for proficiency in patient care
- Performed surgical technologist duties as needed
- Assisted surgeons in carrying out a safe operation with optimal results
- Under the care of the surgeon provided surgical procedure operations including but not limited to providing skin dissection, hemostasis, and surgical closure.
Certified Surgical Technologist/Team Lead
Driscoll Children's Hospital
02.2010 - Current
- Demonstrates the ability to lead and motivate outstanding healthcare teams
- Evaluated patient care needs, prioritized treatment, and maintained patient flow
- Trained staff on current and new surgical procedures
- Maintains the quality of surgical instrument sets including additions of new instrumentation
- Performed educational in-services on current and new instrumentation and surgical procedures
- Assisted doctors with surgeries and non-invasive procedures
- Check supplies and equipment needed for surgical procedures
- Maintains the special needs of surgeons including new supplies and instrumentation
- Liaised with vendors (company reps) to order and maintain inventory of surgical equipment and supplies
- Built surgical procedure preference cards to support the surgical services department in maintaining the needs of the surgeon and equipment for surgeries in the operating room
- Consistently met deadlines and requirements for all surgical special needs and work orders
- Encouraged creative thinking, problem solving, and empowerment as a part of the unit based council group to improve morale and teamwork
- Sets up sterile table with instruments, supplies, equipment, and medications/solutions needed for procedure
- Performs appropriate counts with circulator prior to the operation and before incision is closed
- Maintains highest standard of sterile technique during procedure
- Assists other members of team with terminal cleaning of room, in preparation for the next patient.
Certified Pharmacy Technician
CHRISTUS Spohn Hospital Corpus Christi - Shoreline
02.2007 - 02.2011
- Assisted other pharmacy staff with drug inventory, purchasing, and receiving
- Receptively answered physician or patient questions and helped locate desired items in the pharmacy
- Correctly completed pharmacy paperwork, including daily and weekly reports
- Worked closely with Pharmacy Care Representatives (PCRs) in providing excellent patient care
- Implemented standard procedures for mixing, packaging and labeling pharmaceuticals to ensure quality, security and proper disposal
- Receiving and retrieving prescription orders
- Counting, pouring, measuring and weighing tablets and medications
- Mixing medications and selecting the proper prescription container
- Creating prescription labels
- Providing sterile and accurate IV therapy and oral medications to each patient
- Preparing and mixing of chemo-therapy
- Fixing discrepancies with other healthcare professionals and within the department including narcotics
- Filling of Pyxis machine with medications for clinical and hospital use
- Improve the plastics/craniofacial and Neurosurgery services efficiently by creating preference standards and instrumentation sets for the new staff surgeons
- Maintains and upholds the quality of the plastics development in the surgical services department
- Recognize multiple times for going above and beyond the job requirements provided
- Contributed to clinical education on new equipment and instrumentation along with surgical procedures
- One of the founding members of the unit based council in surgical services
- Experienced preceptor.
Private Surgical Technologist
Orthopedic Center of Corpus Christi
01.2009 - 11.2010
- Obtained information about patient's medical history, drug history, complaints and allergies
- Provided pre- and post-operative care in the clinical setting
- Assisted with patient transfer and ambulation
- Performed clerical duties, such as word processing, data entry, answering phones and filing
- Sourced vendors for special project needs and negotiated contracts
- Interviewed patients to obtain medical information such as weight and height measurements and vital signs
- Documented patient information obtained from interviews
- Perform basic post operation physical assessments of clinical office patients
- Evaluated patient care needs, prioritize treatment, contain patient flow
- Assisted doctors with surgeries and non-invasive procedures as personal assistant
- Shared on-call responsibilities with supervising physician
- Treated 80+ patients per day in clinical facility
- Removed or applied dressings such as casts, soft splints and bandages
- Educated patients on how to maintain the care of applied dressings
- Checks supplies and equipment needed for surgical procedure
- Helps in draping sterile field and perform surgical procedures
- Maintains highest standard of sterile technique during procedure.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
Corpus Christi, TX05.2024
Associate of Arts - Nurse education
Del Mar College
Corpus Christi, TX01.2021
Certificate of completion - Surgical assisting
Meridian
Nashville, TN01.2016
Associate of Applied Science - Surgical Technology
Del Mar College - Windward Campus
Corpus Christi, TX01.2009
Certification of Completion - Pharmacy Technology
Austin Community College: Riverside Campus
Austin, TX01.2006
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High School
Corpus Christi, TX01.1999
Skills
- Team liaison
- Staff development
- Time management abilities
- Production scheduling
- Multitasking
- Problem resolution
- Materials preparation organization
- Self-motivated
- Adaptability and Flexibility
- Team Leadership
- Workflow Optimization
- Team management
- Experienced preceptor
- Direct Patient Care
Certification
- Licensed Registered Nurse - 2024-present
- Licensed Surgical First Assistant - 2016- present
- Licensed Pharmacy Technician - 2007-present
- Certified Surgical Technologist, - 2009-present
- Certified Pharmacy Technician, - 2009-present
Timeline
License First Assistant/Team Leader
Driscoll Children's Hospital
07.2016 - Current
Certified Surgical Technologist/Team Lead
Driscoll Children's Hospital
02.2010 - Current
Private Surgical Technologist
Orthopedic Center of Corpus Christi
01.2009 - 11.2010
Certified Pharmacy Technician
CHRISTUS Spohn Hospital Corpus Christi - Shoreline
02.2007 - 02.2011
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
Associate of Arts - Nurse education
Del Mar College
Certificate of completion - Surgical assisting
Meridian
Associate of Applied Science - Surgical Technology
Del Mar College - Windward Campus
Certification of Completion - Pharmacy Technology
Austin Community College: Riverside Campus
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High School
- Licensed Registered Nurse - 2024-present
- Licensed Surgical First Assistant - 2016- present
- Licensed Pharmacy Technician - 2007-present
- Certified Surgical Technologist, - 2009-present
- Certified Pharmacy Technician, - 2009-present
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