Lucia Ramos

Highly motivated Bilingual (English/Spanish) Certified Surgical Technologist, with excellent people skills and dedicated work ethic. Detail oriented technologist with 2 years of experience in assisting surgeons, nurses, and anesthesiologists during complex medical procedures.

Serves as scrub person for basic surgical procedures and complex surgical procedures as needed. Inspects instruments and power equipment prior to use to assure sterility and operational order. Troubleshoots, reports, and removes faulty instruments and equipment from service. Assures an adequate amount of appropriate supplies and instrumentation are available in accordance with surgeon’s preference and counts all instruments, needles, and sponges with registered nurse according to procedure. Inventories and monitors instruments, sponges and needles on the operative field using department count procedures. Adjusts instrumentation and supplies to changes in procedures and patient condition. Assists with monitoring and reporting blood and fluid loss during cases. Ascertains correctness of count prior to closure of body cavities and surgical wounds. Anticipates surgeon’s needs and assists surgeon by draping patients, holding/passing instruments, retractors, sutures, and medications, applying surgical dressings, suctioning and sponging surgical wounds, holding extremities, and moving patients. Adjusts priorities and participates in resolving problems as appropriate. Assists in identification, labeling and proper specimen disposition using departmental procedures. Reports and corrects breaks in sterile technique immediately, and control location of contaminated instruments and supplies. Assists nurses and anesthesiologists in preparing patients and OR for surgery. Trained surgical technologist students and peri-op students on proper sterile technique.

Received my certification through North West College-Riverside. Took the certification exam through NBSTSA and passed.