Rocha Rocha

Certified Sterile Processing Technician with hospital experience across the complete instrument reprocessing cycle: decontamination, inspection, assembly, packaging, sterilization, sterile storage, and case cart preparation. Completed the Rhodes State College Sterile Processing Technician Program with 400 clinical hours at St. Rita's Medical Center.

Experienced with steam sterilization, STERRAD low-temperature systems, quality-control testing, specialty instrumentation, vendor/loaner sets, CensiTrac instrument tracking system, and EPIC. Committed to infection prevention, patient safety, accuracy, and surgical readiness.

Sterile Processing Technician at Mercy Health - St. Rita's Medical Center (2026-05 – Present)

• Perform decontamination, cleaning, inspection, assembly, packaging, sterilization, storage, and distribution of surgical instruments and equipment.
• Assemble and verify surgical trays using count sheets; identify and document missing or damaged instrumentation.
• Operate steam sterilizers and STERRAD low-temperature sterilization systems according to department procedures.
• Perform and document washer and sterilizer quality-control testing, including biological and chemical indicators.
• Prepare peel pouches, rigid containers, wrapped sets, surgical trays, and case carts.
• Process orthopedic, laparoscopic, endoscopic, robotic, specialty, vendor, and loaner instrumentation.
• Use CensiTrac for surgical instrument tracking and sterile processing workflow documentation.
• Prioritize urgent and add-on surgical cases in a fast-paced hospital environment while maintaining quality and accuracy.
• Use EPIC and hospital information systems to support surgical services workflow.

Sterile Processing Technician Clinical at St. Rita's Medical Center (2026-01-05 – 2026-04-27)

Completed 400 hours of supervised hands-on clinical training in a hospital Sterile Processing Department.

• Performed decontamination, inspection, instrument assembly, packaging, sterilization, sterile storage, and distribution.
• Applied PPE, infection prevention, quality assurance, and patient safety practices throughout clinical training.

Sterile Processing Technician Program – Rhodes State College (2026)

Nursing Assistant Course – Rhodes State College (2014)

Bachelor's Degree in Pedagogy – UNEB - Universidade do Estado da Bahia (1999)