Surgical First Assistant/Certified Surgical Technician

SARAH HEATH

*** ** **** ** *********, Mo ***** · 417-***-****

*****.*****@*****.*** · www.aplacecalled-home.org

HEALTH CARE EXPERIENCE

SEPTEMBER 2020 – CURRENT

SURIGICAL FIRST ASSISTANT, Advent Health shawnee mission

Participate in surgery with the attending physician. Provide assistance, mirrored surgical procedures, cutting, retracting, suturing, hemostasis, excisions, extractions, ligations, injections, equipment operations, and so forth.

APRIL 2020 – SEPTEMBER 2020

SURGICAL TECH, Truman Medical center

Prepare for surgery by organizing and setting up instrumentation and providing surgeon with proper equipment and instrumentation during surgery.

OCTOBER 2017 – APRIL 2020

SURGICAL FIRST ASSISTANT/CERTIFIED SURGICAL TECHNICIAN, Sierra Vista Medical Center

Participate in surgery with the attending physician. Provide assistance, mirrored surgical procedures, cutting, retracting, suturing, hemostasis, excisions, extractions, ligations, injections, equipment operations, and so forth. Functioned as surgical tech when needed.

JANUARY 2016 – SEPTEMBER 2017

CERTIFIED SURGICAL TECHNICIAN, Mercy hospital springfield

Prepare for surgery by organizing and setting up instrumentation and providing surgeon with proper equipment and instrumentation during surgery. Assisted in and prepared instrumentation for vaginal delivery of fetus and cesarean sections.

OCTOBER 2001 – APRIL 2013

PHLEBOTOMIST, Various

Performed venipuncture for blood collection for testing on adults, children and pediatrics.

Performed venipuncture for the collection of plasma pheresis.

Grandfathered in as a lab technician

EDUCATION

OCTOBER 2019

SURGICAL FIRST ASSISTANT, Ace Surgical ASsisting

4950 S Yosemite St, F2 #152 Greenwood Village, CO 80111

DECEMBER 2015

CERTIFIED SURGICAL TECHNICIAN, South Central career center

407 W Thornburgh St, West Plains, MO 65775

MAY 1998

PHLEBOTOMIST, Salt lake city school of phlebotomy

4141 S HIGHLAND DR #105, HOLLADAY, UT 84124

SEPTEMBER 1996

GENERAL STUDIES, utah valley university

800 W University parkway, Orem, UT 84058

ACTIVITIES

April 2013 – Mothers Without Borders

Served with a humanitarian group in Zambia, Africa. Participated in educational projects for children that were abandoned or orphaned.

March 2014 – Founded 501c3 A Place Called Home

Founded a NGO that addresses the needs of abandoned and orphaned children, in Sierra Leone, West Africa.

*In conjunction with my organization I now have included a school and have partnered with a local hospital and lead humanitarian missions as well as medical missions. We also promote adult education and assist in agriculture and animal husbandry. I hold fundraising events, participate in diplomatic conferences and discussions, and seek other private trainings and certifications which allow me to better help with the psychological welfare of the individuals I care for and interact with through my organization.

Contact this candidate