Tracie Roberts

• Assist physician with patient care as well as with minor procedures.
• Take patients to the exam room, take their vitals and prepare them to see the physician.
• Prepare specimens to be sent out for biopsy, culture, etc.
• Cleaning rooms after patient care and decontamination when needed.
• Clean and autoclave instruments when needed.
• Input information into the different medical record programs.
• Ordered medical supplies, maintained inventory logs and restocked exam rooms when needed.
• Answered phones, scheduled appointments and managed patient flow in a busy office.

I was a circulating nurse for different surgeons during their outpatient operations. I specialized in eye surgeries (cataract and retinal), podiatry, gynecology, and plastic surgery. I also scrubbed in to assist during many operations during my time at the Canfield Surgery Center.

I was also in charge of inventory and ordering all supplies needed for the opthomolgy operations.

I was a circulating nurse in the main operating room at the main campus of St. Elizabeth's hospital in Youngstown, Ohio.

I prepared rooms for operations, including gathering instruments and needed supplies for each particular surgery.

I monitored patients as well as the entire surgical suite, making sure patient care was maintained and sterile technique was kept through the entire surgery. We counted instruments (before and after the operations), inserted Foley catheters, and properly positioned patients for their surgery.