Wendy Dutton
Owner/Practitioner, Licensed Acupuncturist
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About
Filed in 2018; Functional, 2021-Present
Experience
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
Education
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)
