CHI St Vincent Infirmary - Rn Circulator Resume Example

Travel contracts in Pediatric Surgery and Per i-operative services. Relocated back to home base.  

Circulated in the OR in a six room surgery center performing all areas of surgery. Cross trained in Pre-Op and PACU. 

Functioned as a Circulator as needed, while assuming duties of daily case assignments, monitoring rooms and patient flow. Triaging any added on cases during each day and making decisions regarding the priority of these cases. Assisting staff in pre operative patient assessments prior to surgery.

Oversaw and manage clinical and support staff in patient care activities while maintaining a high level of staff morale and professionalism.

Provided on-call care at all times as a manager.

Function in the duties of the Circulator and Heart Holder. Case load to include TAVR, Bentall, CAB (both on and off pump), Thoracic, MVR and AVR and many combination surgical procedures. Some experience in Robotic Cardiovascular surgery. Vast experience in instruments, supplies and maintains inventory of all supplies for the daily CV case load. Assisted in training new employees and nurse interns. Hospital is a 540 bed hospital with a 14 suite Cardiovascular-Thoracic surgical suite.

Anticipate the needs of the surgical team before and during the surgery. Maintain and implement patient care during the surgical procedure. Educate and resource surgical team. Responsible for the training of new surgical employees. Experienced in Robotic surgery and all types of circulating and scrubbing surgical cases. Experience in instruments, supplies and maintaining inventory for scheduled cases. Team lead for future opening and implementation of CV service line. 

Worked as a staff nurse for an Invasive Cardiologist. Communicated with patients during cardiac work ups for diagnostic procedures and/or surgery. Participated in hospital procedures, providing patient communication and teaching. Hospital rounding on . patients on a regular basis. 

Assisted with office staff with all communication and scheduling of procedures with hospital and patients. Initially, hired to work in Dispensary and Diagnostic areas of the clinic. 

Began as a circulating nurse in General Surgery. Progressed to circulator in Cardiovascular Surgery and later becoming Clinical Lead in CVOR. 

Continued working PRN in Surgery, primarily CV, until 2012. 

Graduate nurse in NICU working part time. Learning total patient care as a team approach in providing medical care to sick newborns. Functioned as a critical care specialist. Very rewarding and a great educational experience. 

Staff Nurse and tech in Labor and Delivery. Also worked in General Surgery, C-section and Mother/Baby Care. Maintain and implement patient care during labor, delivery and postpartum. Patient teaching while caring for Mother and Baby. Hospital 325 beds with 6 L/D suites. C-Sections were . performed in the OR.