LiveCareer
LiveCareer
  • Dashboard
  • Jobs
  • Resumes
  • Cover Letters
  • Resumes
    • Resumes
    • Resume Builder
    • Resume Examples
      • Resume Examples
      • Nursing
      • Education
      • Administrative
      • Medical
      • Human Resources
      • View All
    • Resume Search
    • Resume Templates
      • Resume Templates
      • Nursing
      • Education
      • Medical
      • Human Resources
      • Customer Service
      • View All
    • Resume Services
    • Resume Formats
    • Resume Review
    • How to Write a Resume
    • CV Examples
    • CV Formats
    • CV Templates
    • Resume Objectives
  • Cover Letters
    • Cover Letters
    • Cover Letter Builder
    • Cover Letter Examples
      • Cover Letter Examples
      • Education
      • Medical
      • Human Resources
      • Customer Service
      • Business Operations
      • View All
    • Cover Letter Services
    • Cover Letter Templates
    • Cover Letter Formats
    • How to Write a Cover Letter
  • Jobs
    • Mobile App
    • Job Search
    • Job Apply Tool
    • Salary Calculator
    • Business Letters
    • Job Descriptions
  • Questions
  • Resources
  • About
  • Contact
  • 0Notifications
    • Notifications

      0 New
  • jane
    • Settings
    • Help & Support
    • Sign Out
  • Sign In
Member Login
  • LiveCareer
  • Resume Search
  • Operating Room Coordinator
Please provide a type of job or location to search!
SEARCH

Operating Room Coordinator Resume Example

Resume Score: 80%

Love this resume?Build Your Own Now
OPERATING ROOM COORDINATOR
Objective

My objective is to obtain a staff/per-diem position that would afford me the opportunity to maximize the quality of care and enhance positive patient outcomes in the perioperative setting.

Professional Experience
Operating Room Coordinator, 06/2007 to CurrentUniversity of Pennsylvania Hospital - Phila, PA


  • Coordinates the OR schedule in collaboration with anesthesia, surgery, and the nursing departments throughout the hospital.
  • Triages patients in collaboration with anesthesia: based on patient's acuity and case categorization.
  • Critical thinking skills and decision making to resolve conflict and problem solve in the PACU and Endoscopy unit during the weekends hours.
  • Aligning of technician/nurse's skillset to the most appropriate patient population.
  • Organizing staff, supplies, and equipment for off site surgical and endoscopic procedures.
  • Organizing Recovery Room Nurse to be available to receive post-operative patients in a timely manner.
  • Acts as Nurse Liasons between perioperative surgical environment and family during weekend hours.
  • Planning/Organizing Emergency Precautions to ensure staffing needs are met for Perioperative Department during Inclement Weather.
  • Making Budgetary decisions relating to staffing, equipment, and supplies to facilitate the OR schedule
  • Inservices Pool and Part-time staff on current policy, practice changes and updates.
Weekend Resource Nurse//Level II Staff Nurse, 02/2005 to CurrentUniversity of Pennsylvania Hospital - Phila, Pa
  • Actively participated in Magnet based unit council from 2006-2012.
  • Researched and implemented current cardiac call practice to prevent employees from working in excess of 16hrs work days.
  • Implemented current call/weekend/holiday rotation practice guidelines relating to seniority
  • Inservice the Perioperative and Short Procedure staff on the Back to Basic Initiative.
  • Inservice ABO verification, EVLP protocol, Donation after Cardiac Death, Phoenix transplant
  • Researched and Implemented Count sheet revision in order to decrease counting and safety errors
  • Responsible for assigning call to the general OR in 2013.
  • Inservice with hands on demonstration of Heartsmart Defibrillator
  • Proficient in scrubbing and circulating multiple specialties- neuro, ortho, ENT, OMFS, GYN, general, and urological procedures.
  • Seedling Committee - responsible for awarding hospital employees this grant that will allow them to go to school full-time and work part-time and still receive full time income and benefits.
  • Served as a liaison between other seedling committee members and the perioperative awardees.
  • Functioned as a mentor to seedling nursing students to ensure a smooth transition through nursing school and becoming staff nurse.
  • Participated in Just a Nurse Campaign for the University of Pennsylvania Hospital.
Surgical Technologist, 01/1993 to 06/2005University of Pennsylvania Hospital - Phila, Pa
  • Assisted in development of Thoracic, Cardiac, and Vascular Pathways
  • Assisted and organized the initial education and practice of the service partners
  • Created emergency equipment, suture, and supply checklist for the Cardiac SICU.
  • Assigned thoracic fellows and rotating residents surgical procedure assignments in order facilitate thoracic schedule.
  • Initiated the surgical technologist leveling system
  • Inserviced, mentored, and precept new to practice surgical technicians and nurses.
  • Attended monthly thoracic meeting to discuss improvements for the service.
  • Met with administrative assistants and Nurse Practioners daily to approve the order of the thoracic schedule.
Professional Summary

More than twenty-seven years of clinical experience in the perioperative setting with demonstrated success in positions of leadership including operating room coordinator, specialty team coordinator, and nurse manager in their respective absences. In these roles, I have used effective communication to resolve conflict amongst nursing, anesthesia, and the surgical staff while improving productivity, quality of care, and nurse/physician satisfaction in our department.

Skill Highlights
  • Expertise hybrid cardiac and vascular procedures.

  • Expertise in open and minimally invasive cardiac procedures

  • Expertise Open Vascular procedures
  • Expertise in thoracic minimally invasive, open procedures, and complex repairs

  • Expertise in Transplantation Liver, Heart, Lungs, Kidney, Pancreas, Heart-Liver, Liver-Kidney, Heart-Kidney, Living-related donors, donation after cardiac death
PROFESSIONAL AWARDS AND COMMITTEES
  • Lillian Brunner Award for Clinical Judgment and Decision-Making Nominee
  • Cosepa award winner
  • Seedling Committee Member
  • Unit Council Member
  • Crucial Conversation Retreat
Accomplishments
  • Plan, organized, and implemented necessary supplies and equipment to facilitate surgical intervention during life saving measures in the cardiac intensive care unit.
  • Created a minimally invasive tray that encompass all necessary instrumentation utilized in a cardiac/hybrid surgical complication.
  • Plan, organized, and Implemented the inventory stock in the newly opened OR suites of the Silverstein and Dulles Pavilions to be efficient for cardiac and vascular procedures.
  • Plan, organized, and implemented the Emergency Cardiac Travel Cart.
  • Featured in the AORN film celebrating the year of the nurse "Behind the Mask".
  • Plan, organized, and implemented the training modules for OR staff transitioning care to covid 19 patients.
  • Secured and controlled PPE distribution among all integral members of OR staff.
Education and Training
Master of Science:MSN Leadership in Health System Management,Expected in 2023Drexel University - Philadelphia, PA
Bachelor of Science:RN-BSN,2018Drexel University - Philadelphia, PA
Associate of Science:Nursing,2005Community College of Philadelphia - Philadelphia, PA
Surgical Technology,1992American Institute of Design - Philadelphia, PA
Licenses

Common Wealth of Pennsylvania Registered Nurse

Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification current

Certified Nurse in Operating Room

Build Your Own Now

DISCLAIMER

Resumes, and other information uploaded or provided by the user, are considered User Content governed by our Terms & Conditions. As such, it is not owned by us, and it is the user who retains ownership over such content.

Resume Overview

Companies Worked For:

  • University of Pennsylvania Hospital

School Attended

  • Drexel University
  • Community College of Philadelphia
  • American Institute of Design

Job Titles Held:

  • Operating Room Coordinator
  • Weekend Resource Nurse//Level II Staff Nurse
  • Surgical Technologist

Degrees

  • Master of Science : MSN Leadership in Health System Management , Expected in 2023
    Bachelor of Science : RN-BSN , 2018
    Associate of Science : Nursing , 2005
    Surgical Technology , 1992

Create a job alert for [job role title] at [location].

×

Advertisement

Similar Resumes

View All
Operating-Room-Scheduling-Coordinator-resume-sample

Operating Room Scheduling Coordinator

OSS Health

Pensacola, Florida

Operating-Room-Coordinator-resume-sample

Operating Room Coordinator

Laurel Surgical Center

West Newton, Pennsylvania

Employment	Operating-Room-Coordinator-Supervisor-resume-sample

Employment Operating Room Coordinator Supervisor

Johns Hopkins University, Department of Surgery

Baltimore, Maryland

About
  • About Us
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of Use
  • Sitemap
Help & Support
  • Work Here
  • Contact Us
  • FAQs
Languages
  • EN
  • UK
  • ES
  • FR
  • IT
  • DE
  • NL
  • PT
  • PL
Customer Service
customerservice@livecareer.com
800-652-8430 Mon- Fri 8am - 8pm CST
Sat 8am - 5pm CST, Sun 10am - 6pm CST
  • Stay in touch with us
Site jabber winner award

© 2021, Bold Limited. All rights reserved.