Shalawna Williams

• Provide daily operational leadership for Sterile Processing and surgical instrumentation services.
• Supervised, coached, mentored, and supported up to 25 employees to uphold productivity, quality, and safety standards.
• Support a high-volume surgical environment averaging approximately 60–70 surgical cases per day.
• Coordinated surgical instrument support for orthopedics, burns, robotic surgery, urology, and other surgical services, ensuring instrument readiness.
• Coordinate surgical instrument support for Orthopedics, Burns, Robotic Surgery, Urology, and other surgical services.
• Collaborate closely with OR leadership, nurses, surgical teams, vendors, and Supply Chain to maintain instrument readiness.
• Managed staffing and workflow priorities in alignment with surgical schedules, urgent procedures, turnovers, and instrumentation availability.
• Use SPM instrument tracking to monitor trays, count sheets, missing instrumentation, and process-improvement opportunities.
• Coordinate vendor/loaner instrumentation, IFUs, quotes, requisitions, purchase orders, and replacement instrumentation.
• Provide staff education, orientation, coaching, mentoring, huddles, and ongoing reinforcement of quality and compliance standards.

• Led daily operations of Sterile Processing Department, ensuring efficient workflow and adherence to standards.
• Supervised sterile processing technicians, optimizing staffing and assignments to enhance department efficiency.
• Oversaw decontamination, instrument inspection, assembly, sterilization, sterile storage, and distribution.
• Coordinated instrumentation priorities to align with Operating Room schedules, addressing urgent surgical needs promptly.
• Trained, coached, mentored, and supported employees while reinforcing competencies, IFUs, infection prevention, and sterilization standards.
• Supported inventory management, quality assurance, process improvement, regulatory readiness, and patient safety.

• Executed decontamination, inspection, assembly, packaging, sterilization, storage, and distribution of surgical instruments to ensure readiness for surgical procedures.
• Inspected and assembled surgical instruments according to count sheets and procedural requirements.
• Conducted inspection and assembly of surgical instruments per count sheets and procedural requirements to uphold safety and compliance standards.
• Documented processing activities accurately and prepared instrumentation to facilitate efficient support for Operating Room procedures.

In Progress

• Honoree of NSLS | The National Society of Leadership and Success
• Honor Roll 2026
• Professional Development: Leadership
• 4.0 GPA