Registered Nurse First Assist
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30 combined years surgery experience beginning as a scrub tech and past 7 years as RN first assist and circulator. Worked in many surgical specialties, including orthopedics, neuro, and ophthalmology surgery. First assist wound closure experience on total joints (knee, hip, shoulder) including deep joint capsule closure, scopes, and hand and foot surgery.
Splinting experience with orthoglass and plaster: long arm, forearm, wrist, hand and ankle fractures with stirrup. Also 1 year first assist in endoscopic Bariatric surgery. Authorized to work in the US for any employer.
RN FIRST ASSIST II, OR - Operating Room - Park West Medical Center - Knoxville, TN
(2022-12)
RNFA certified RNAS-C. Specializing in orthopedic total joint surgery (knees, hips, shoulders); joint capsule to skin closures. Plastics, bariatric endoscopic first assist, ortho-spine.
Registered Nurse First Assist, OR - Operating Room - Parkwest Medical Center - Knoxville, TN
(2022-12)
2022-current RNFA Parkwest medical center Knoxville TN Specializing in Orthopedic total joint surgery
Travel Nurse Operating Room, OR - Operating Room - Aya Healthcare - Mullica Hill, NJ
(2022-09 - 2022-12)
Operating room circulator and scrub nurse as needed; first assist as needed. 13-week assignment.
RN-OR FIRST ASSIST and CIRCULATOR, OR - Operating Room - Knoxville Orthopedic Surgery Center - Knoxville, TN
(2018-10 - 2022-09)
RN circulator in surgery. First assist and scrub for total joints, fractures, hands, feet, and sports medicine surgical cases.
SURGICAL TECH, OR - Operating Room - Park West Medical Center - Knoxville, TN
(2016-08 - 2018-04)
SURGICAL TECH, OR - Operating Room - Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center - Knoxville, TN
(2005-01 - 2005-06)
SURGICAL TECH, OR - Operating Room - Baptist West Medical Center - Knoxville, TN
(2003-10 - 2005-01)
RN Circulator/ CST, OR - Operating Room - TN Valley Eye Center - Knoxville, TN
(1999-07 - 2018-10)
OR experience as scrub tech and RN/OR circulator.
SURGICAL TECH, OR - Operating Room - U.T. Medical Center - Clinton, TN
(1997-10 - 1999-07)
Scrub surgical cases specialized in ophthalmology
Other - Surgical technology - Tennessee College of Applied Technology-Knoxville (1997-05)
AS - Nursing - PELLISSIPPI STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE (2015-04)
BS - Nursing - KING UNIVERSITY (2018-04)
Other - RN First Assistant - National Institute of First Assisting (2023-06)
