Tammy Keck

Orchestrate high-volume ambulatory care workflows, managing daily patient flow and clinic throughput across pre-op, recovery, and discharge phases in a fast-paced environment.

Initiating IVs, performing point-of-care labs, monitoring vitals, and post anesthesia care.

Evaluate patient histories, baseline data, and clinical readiness to eliminate procedural delays and cancellations.

Conduct pre-admission chart reviews identifying high risk clinical factors and escalate them to anesthesia and surgical

team proactively.

Execute thorough pre-operative checklists, including patient identification, surgical site verification, and strict operational

protocol compliance.

Initiate peripheral IV access with expert clinical technique, perform point-of-care laboratory testing and EKGs.

Evaluate anesthesia readiness by reviewing nothing by mouth compliance, airway risk indicators, and historical anesthesia

reactions to safeguard patient transitions.

Identify acute changes in pre-operative status, immediately communicating abnormal lab values or EKG readings to

anesthesia and surgical teams.

Manage medication reconciliation, identifying potential surgical complications regarding anticoagulant, diabetic

treatments, or cardiac regimens.

Evaluate discharge readiness utilizing validated criteria (such as Aldrete score) to ensure safe baseline stability before

transferring patient to home care.

Provide comprehensive, plain-language discharge education to patient and caregivers, focusing on specialized wound care, red flags, medication schedules.