Patient Care Operating Room

Jennifer Holtz, RN

**** ****** ******, **** ** The Hills Illinois 60156

Home Phone # 224-***-****

Email: *******@*****.***

Education August 1997 – May 2000

Associate in Applied Sciences – Nursing

Prairie State College, Chicago Heights, Illinois

Experience Alexian Brothers Medical Center, Elk Grove Village Illinois July 9, 2001 – Present

Operating Room Nurse

Responsible for providing for the surgical patients needs by assessing, planning, and implementing the nursing care a patient receives preoperatively, intraoperatively, and postoperatively. As a circulating nurse, activities performed include patient assessment, maintaining a sterile and safe environment, patient teaching, monitoring the patients psychological and physiological status, providing patient safety, and coordinating patient care with the surgeon. As a scrub nurse, responsibilities include creating and maintaining a sterile field and assisting the surgeon during surgical procedures. Training included experience in orthopedics, general surgery, gynecological, plastics / reconstructive, urology, ENT, opthamology, and podiatry.

Lutheran General Hospital, Park Ridge Illinois

March 5, 2001 – June 14, 2001

Staff Nurse on Surgical Step-down Floor

Responsible for assessing patients, evaluating patients recovery, administering medications, interacting with patients’ families, providing instruction to patients to aid in their recovery, and corresponding with doctors regarding patient condition.

Osco Drug, Homewood Illinois

July 1999 – February 2000

Licensed Pharmacy Technician

Responsible for providing assistance to customers over the phone, providing customer service at the pharmacy check-out counter, and assisting the pharmacist in filling prescriptions. Training included deciphering written doctors’ prescriptions and entering them into the computer database.

Skills My most notable skill is my ability to work well with people. I am very outgoing and easily able to interact with patients and coworkers. I am eager to learn new skills, and I am a quick learner.

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