Wendy Dutton

Filed in 2018; Functional, 2021-Present

Owner/Practitioner, Licensed Acupuncturist - Five Points Wellness, LLC

(2021)

Filed in 2018; Functional, 2021-Present

Certified IV Therapist - Five Points Wellness, LLC

(2021)

Client to Practitioner Ratio, 2:1

• Educate clients about services offered
• Discuss benefits and risks of proposed therapies
• Administer injections
• Delegated IV starts
• Delegated administration of nutrients to IVs
• Delegated management of IVs
• Delegated removal of IVs

Surgical First Assistant (CSFA) - Multiple Hospitals (Independent) - Littleton, Parker, St. Joseph's, Swedish, Porter, Rose, Lutheran, Aurora Regional, and Children's Hospitals

(1990 - 2020)

Independent CSFA (self-employed with staff privileges at Littleton, Parker, St. Joseph's, Swedish, Porter, Rose, Lutheran, Aurora Regional, and Children's Hospitals at varying intervals of time)

Surgical First Assistant (CSFA) - Rock Hill Surgical Associates

(1990 - 2020)

Certified in 1991. Job Title: CSFA

• Conducting pre-surgery interviews to determine important information about the patient's health and identifying any areas of concern that may require additional consideration
• Preparing an operating room for surgery
• Ensuring that all necessary tools are readily accessible and the room is clean and sanitized
• Positioning the patient
• Assisting with general anesthetic induction
• Assisting with IV starts
• Applying pneumatic tourniquets
• Applying safety positioning devices
• Urinary catheterization
• Draping the patient
• Scrubbing, gowning and gloving self and others when necessary
• Monitoring electronic displays on equipment being utilized
• Injecting local anesthetics and other medications
• Making incisions
• Inserting trocars
• Placing clamps
• Dissecting tissue
• Cutting tissue
• Vascular access and cannulation on assistant's side
• Re-anastomosing vessels and bowel on assistant's side
• Suturing tissue
• Closing the surgical site
• Applying sterile dressings

Certified Surgical Technologist (CST/CSFA) - Multiple Hospitals - Castle Rock Adventist Hospital, Rose Medical Center, St. Francis Medical Center, Piedmont Medical Center

(1988)

Certified in 1988; dual role as CST/CSFA beginning in '91, over the years

• Preparing the operating room
• Set-up by opening sterile supplies on sterile field
• Arranges instruments
• Counts instruments, needles, and sponges throughout the procedure
• Draping the patient
• Preparing solutions for surgical team
• Gown and glove the surgeon, assist with visual field (tissue handling, retracting)
• Applying sterile dressing

Certified Surgical Technologist (CST/CSFA) - Castle Rock Adventist Hospital

Certified Surgical Technologist (CST/CSFA) - Rose Medical Center

Certified Surgical Technologist (CST/CSFA) - St. Francis Medical Center

Certified Surgical Technologist (CST/CSFA) - Piedmont Medical Center

Real Estate Agent - Prudential Carolinas Real Estate - Charlotte, NC

(1997 - 1999)

Licensed NC Realtor

Doctor of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine - Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine - Emperor's College of Traditional and Oriental Medicine (2019 - 2021)

Masters of Classical Five-Element Acupuncture - Acupuncture - Institute of Taoist Education and Acupuncture (2013 - 2017)

Continuing Education - Contemplative Psychology - Naropa University (2010 - 2012)

Continuing Education - Applied Sciences - Arapahoe Community College

Diploma in Surgical Technology - Surgical Technology - Midlands Technical College (1986 - 1988)

Surgical First Assisting Certification - Surgical Assisting - Colorado Surgical Assisting, Inc. (1991 - 1992)