Scott Stephens

• Assists with coordination and overall management of neuro services
• Actively interface with physician(s) to provide customer service at the point of care; assess, plan and evaluate material, staff and patient specific care to coordinate activities of neuro surgical service
• Practices effective communication methods with the Clinical Educator, leadership, co-workers, families, and customers.
• Serves as a policy and practice resource within the assigned unit. Implements in-service programs for clinical staff developed by others.

Utilizing the Nursing Process:

• Assesses, identifies, interprets, and documents patient and/or significant others self-care needs and teaching needs, utilizing a variety of assessment tools.
• Plans, initiates, and maintains a comprehensive individualized patient plan of care which includes discharge planning, in collaboration with the patient/significant other(s) and the health care team, according to HonorHealth standards of nursing care practice.
• Promotes quality of patient care by practicing and promoting existing policies using effective communication, cooperation, and teamwork. Assists in clinical development of staff specialty skills.
• Supervised, directed, and motivated high-quality performance from nursing staff.
• Trained new nurses in proper techniques, care standards, operational procedures, and safety protocols

• Used aseptic techniques to maintain sterile fields and actively monitored situations to prevent breaches in aseptic techniques.
• Positioned patients in operating rooms to prepare for surgical procedures, using supine, prone and sitting surgical positions.
• Coordinated and consulted with healthcare teams to plan, implement, assess and evaluate patient care plans.
• Positioned operating room lights and laid out sterile instrument packs.
• Investigated and resolved issues affecting hospital operations and patient care.
• Communicated with healthcare team members to plan, implement and enhance treatment strategies.
• Documented treatments delivered, medications and IVs administered, discharge instructions, and follow-up care.

• Maintained operating room's inventory of products and replenished stock, when needed.
• Participated in OR suite turnaround procedures such as cleaning and case cart management.
• Cleaned and sterilized room after surgery and counted instruments and sponges used to account for supplies.
• Prepared patients for surgery and transported patients to and from operating room.
• Adhered to universal precautions, applying aseptic techniques to operating room equipment and personnel.

• Conducted preventive maintenance and troubleshooting of metering instruments.
• Wrote detailed service reports and maintained organized records of service actions.
• Performed scheduled and planned installation and maintenance duties.
• Performed repair procedures on damaged instruments and sourced replacements from approved vendors.
• Analyzed interruption reports and outage databases to identify outage trends and determine needed coordination changes.