Spiro Tsakonas
Wheeling,Il
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Endoscopy Technician
Northwest Community Hospital
- Transported patients to the recovery room, checked specimens for the lab, loaded scopes into the OER-Pro machine, relieved lunch breaks for technicians, and cleaned and processed specialty scopes, ERCP scopes, endoscopy scopes, and colonoscopy scopes
- Assisted physicians with colonoscopies, endoscopies, ACP machines, peg insertions, dilatation, and hemorrhoidal banding, and turned over the room for the cases
- Traveled to the ICU to perform procedures on sick patients
- Worked with the on-call team in the immediate care unit or emergency room with emergency cases, foreign bodies, and bleeders.
Endoscopy Technician
Illinois Center of Digestive and Liver Health
08.2018 - Current
- Coordinates with the technicians about daily procedures, supplies, charts, and equipment
- Arrange the schedule for add-ons or cancellations and schedule the days the techs were in the room
- Train new technicians on procedure, safety, sanitation, and scheduling patients
- Empathize with patient concerns and explain my role in the procedures to ensure they feel comfortable
- Sends out scopes for repair and evaluates equipment
- Assist physicians with colonoscopies, endoscopies, hemorrhoid banding, liver biopsy dilatation, and Endo FLIP procedures
- Assists technicians with processing scopes to be sterilized in OER-Pro and Medivator machines and checks for specimens
- Helps with recovery rooms, sends requisitions to ACL and Quest Laboratories, and checks charts for the next day.
Education
Bachelor’s Degree - Healthcare Leadership
National Louis University
Associates Degree - Management and Supervision
Oakton Community College
Registered Medical Assistant -
Sanford Brown College
Skills
- Bi Lingual Greek
- Leadership Skills
- Time Management Skills
- Flexibility
- Customer Focused
- Positive
Certification
- HR Generalist
- Organizational Behavior
Timeline
Endoscopy Technician
Illinois Center of Digestive and Liver Health
08.2018 - Current
Endoscopy Technician
Northwest Community Hospital
Bachelor’s Degree - Healthcare Leadership
National Louis University
Associates Degree - Management and Supervision
Oakton Community College
Registered Medical Assistant -
Sanford Brown College
- HR Generalist
- Organizational Behavior