Academy Educator - Lee Health System - Fort Myers, FL 33901
(2025-05)
Manages education and quality assurance throughout Sterile Processing workflows. Leads staff in continuous improvement following AAMI standards and IFU. Participates in collaborative real-time root cause analysis and corrective action planning as defects occur.
Serves as the liaison with surgical services leadership, surgical teams, and physicians to maintain high levels of quality, accuracy, and timeliness of sterile products needed to support patient care. Collaboratively ensures the sterilization processes adhere to standards of practice established by OSHA, FDA, AORN, DNV, and AAMI. Assuming the role of instrumentation expert in all areas of surgical services, assists with staff education, mentors and develops SPD staff, and assists in evaluation of staff performance.
Shift Supervisor - West Palm Beach VA Hospital - Palm Beach, FL 33410
(2025-01 - 2025-05)
2nd supervisor GS8, that provides oversight and supervision for a group of MSTs. Administrative responsibility for planning and directing daily work and ensures an even workflow and distribution of the workload.
- Oversight of attendance and leave to include approval of sick leave and annual leave, and revises work schedules to meet anticipated and unanticipated changes in the workload
- Ensure SOPs, Policies, and SPS mandates are followed
- Conducts performance appraisals; recommends promotions, reassignments, recognition of superior performance, retention or release of probationary employees, or other changes of assigned personnel
- Reviews work in progress or spot checks work not requiring review to ensure completed work meets supervisors' instructions on such things as work sequence, procedures, methods, and deadlines
- Provides technical supervision necessary for accomplishing the work of the organizational unit
- Conducts corrective counseling with employees, referring disciplinary problems to higher levels of management
- Resolves informal complaints of employees and deals with union representatives on personnel matters
- Instructs employees on work-related activities, policies, procedures, and goals
- Provides guidance and training for staff members with less experience
- Responds to the needs of patients while supporting the VA mission
Supervisor of Sterile Processing - Lee County Veterans Clinic - Cape Coral, FL 33090
(2021-06 - 2025-01)
Provides oversight and supervision for a group of MSTs, up to the GS-7 level. Administrative responsibility for planning and directing daily work and ensures an even workflow and distribution of the workload.
- Oversight of attendance and leave to include approval of sick leave and annual leave, and revises work schedules to meet anticipated and unanticipated changes in the workload
- Ensure SOPs, Policies, and SPS mandates are followed
- Conducts performance appraisals; recommends promotions, reassignments, recognition of superior performance, retention or release of probationary employees, or other changes of assigned personnel
- Reviews work in progress or spot checks work not requiring review to ensure completed work meets supervisors' instructions on such things as work sequence, procedures, methods, and deadlines
- Provides technical supervision necessary for accomplishing the work of the organizational unit
- Conducts corrective counseling with employees, referring disciplinary problems to higher levels of management
- Resolves informal complaints of employees and deals with union representatives on personnel matters
- Instructs employees on work-related activities, policies, procedures, and goals
- Provides guidance and training to staff members with less experience
- Responds to the needs of patients while supporting the VA mission; communicates and treats Veterans and staff in a courteous, tactful, and respectful manner
- Constructively and appropriately handles conflicts with Veterans
- Protects and maintains the privacy and confidentiality of printed and electronic files in accordance with the applicable laws and regulations on confidentiality
System Education for Sterile Processing/Quality Auditing - AdventHealth Orlando - Orlando, FL
(2018-04 - 2021-05)
Liaison for all new employees who are onboarding. Campus department door access. Introduction and maintaining corporate and department online learning. Initial corporate website navigation and educate staff on the use of Connect, Outlook, Teams, Word, Censitrac, One Source, educate on when and how to place a Quality Feedback occurrence in Censitrac for defects. Process creation and review.
- Standards compliance with OSHA, FDA, EPA, DNV, TJC, AAMI, AORN, SGNA, IAHCSMM, and hospital policies as well as state and local regulations
- Tray audits daily
- Department and process rounding
- Plans new equipment original equipment manufacturer initial education
- Research of new products and evaluations
- Maintains hospital certification book sign out program
- Instructor for online certification practice course
- Facilitates and maintains recertification compliance for all employees
- Created PowerPoint presentations
- Manages employee education folders (both digital and paper)
- Conducts annual competence sign offs days for over 100 employees
- Hold all in service sign in geared to Sterile Processing education
- Set up campus in-services
- Over sees all sign-in sheets for in-services
- Promotes monthly education days
- IFU review
- Manufactures flyers for quick education tips
- Generates new policies and standard operating procedures for new processes to the department
- Involved in monthly management meetings for the Central Florida Division
- Run reports for employee productivity and tray completion
Supervisor of Sterile Processing, High Level Disinfection - Parrish Medical Center - Titusville, FL
(2016-03 - 2018-04)
- Staffing assignments
- Admin for payroll and vacation time approval
- Set up and maintained all education for the Sterile Processing Department and High-Level Disinfection
- Used Medivators Scope Reprocessor
- Supported annul competence sign offs
- Reviewed all load records
- Implemented Impress Instrument Tracking System
- Upheld all tray and count sheet revisions
- Trays audits daily
- Did Joint Commission Integrated Healthcare rounding throughout the hospital
- Facilitated an operational and capital budget
- Capital purchases
- Made purchase orders
- Did RMA's and recalls
- Ordered implants
- Supported an implant inventory of more than 200,000
- Processed instruments for clinics and outside departments
- Created and implemented a point of use cleaning program that was used system wide
- Managed department water system and tanks
- Conducted water tests monthly
- Promoted and sponsored certifications with both IAHCSMM and CBSPD
- Assigned to the hospital Water Committee
- Introduced colleagues to the AAMI document TIR 34
- Sat on CQVA Committee to evaluate new products introduced into the health system
- Attended training seminars to enhance my supervisory skills
Supervisor of Sterile Processing, High Level Disinfection - Florida Hospital Fish Memorial - Orange City, FL
(2014-03 - 2016-03)
Processed and educated staff on how to reprocess flexible endoscopes in Endo.
Used Custom Ultrasonic
Reprocessor. Created an on-boarding program for new employees. Developed a Procedure Cart and Crash Cart swap out program. Facilitated all floor cart replenishment stock. Implemented a Mobile Pump Cleaning Initiative that serviced all areas all the hospital multiple times a day. Ordered department stock, as well as staff scrubs and department linen. Assigned daily tasks to staff. Supported timekeeping for the department, which included paid time off.
- Standards compliance with OSHA, FDA, EAP, DVN, DNV, TJC, AAMI, AORN, SGNA, IAHCSMM, and hospital polices as well as state and local requirements
- Lead all annual employee evaluations
- Preformed leadership presentations for capital equipment
- Created new instrument orders for both the Operating Room and other departments
- Assessed new products and technology that was used in the department
- Ran usage reports for implants and Bill Only purchases
- Supervised implant reordering
- Maintained education documents
- Set up annual educational services for the SPD staff
- Conducted process reviews in both Sterile Processing and in Scope Reprocessing
- Logged environmental cleaning compliance for the department
- Tracked recertifications for employees for corporate compliance
- Promoted industry certifications
Sterile Processing Certified Technician - Kapiolani Medical Center - Honolulu, HI
(2012-06 - 2012-11)
- Decontaminated instrumentation
- Determined what items could be put in an automated washer
- Ultrasonic laparoscopic instrumentation and robotic arms
- Tray assembly and instrument inspection
- Ensure the correct method of sterilization is used when processing items
- IFU review
- Created a 'Needs List' process for needs for 7:30 start cases for the following day
- High-Level Disinfected Endoscopes
- Maintaining scope logs daily
- Tracked scope hang-time and expiration dates
- Reprocessing expired scopes for both Operating Room and outside departments
- Cleaned floor equipment like IV pumps and PCA pumps
- Washed handheld wash items
- Conducted daily equipment testing on both the clean and dirty areas
- Operated ASP Sterrads, Steris washers, Steris ET
