Johns Riverside Student Coordinator

SHERMAN L. WASHINGTON *******@*****.*** 862-***-**** STERILE PROCESSING TECHNICIAN

EDUCATION

Brooklyn Community College Liberal Arts, 09/1977 - 09/1980 Alfred E. Smith High School Architectural Drafting, 09/1975 - 06/1977 CERTIFICATIONS

IAHCSMM #128116 04/12/2012 - 04/30/2020

National CPR Foundation #289-15-D6B (BLS Certification) 06/25/2019 - 06/25/2021 EXPERIENCE

St. Mary’s General Hospital - Passaic, NJ

Sterile Processing Technician (Contractual) 12/2020 - Present

• Autoclaving including steam and sterrad

• Specialize in assembling orthopedic instruments for orthopedic surgeries.

• Specialize in orthopedic, cardiac and neurological instruments used in surgical procedures

• Decontamination of instruments used from surgical cases Calloway and Associates, Inc. @ James J. Peters VA Medical Center - Bronx, NY Sterile Processing Technician (Contractual) 12/2019 - 03/2020

• Autoclaving including steam and sterrad

• Specialize in assembling orthopedic instruments for orthopedic surgeries.

• Specialize in orthopedic, cardiac and neurological instruments used in surgical procedures

• Decontamination of instruments used from surgical cases Mt. Sinai Hospital - New York, NY 12/2017 - 01/2020 Sterile Processing Technician

• Autoclaving including steam and sterrad

• Specialize in assembling orthopedic instruments for orthopedic surgeries.

• Specialize in orthopedic, cardiac and neurological instruments used in surgical procedures

• Decontamination of instruments used from surgical cases Specialty Care @ Methodist Hospital - Brooklyn, NY 06/2016 - 11/2017 Sterile Processing Technician

• Autoclaved including steam and sterrad

• Specialized in assembling orthopedic instruments for orthopedic surgeries

• Specialized in orthopedic, cardiac and neurological instruments used in surgical procedures

• Decontamination of instruments used from surgical cases Green Key Resources @ St. Johns Riverside Hospital - Yonkers, NY 03/2015 - 04/2016 Sterile Processing Technician

• Autoclaved including steam and sterrad

• Specialized in assembling orthopedic instruments for orthopedic surgeries

• Specialized in orthopedic, cardiac and neurological instruments used in surgical procedures

• Decontamination of instruments used from surgical cases SHERMAN L. WASHINGTON *******@*****.*** 862-***-**** STERILE PROCESSING TECHNICIAN RNnetwork @ Good Samaritan Hospital - West Islip, NY 08/2014 - 02/2015 Sterile Processing Technician

• Assembled instrument trays used in surgical procedures

• Autoclave including steam and sterrad

• Decontamination of instruments used from surgical cases

• Prepared neurological and cardiac instrument trays with implants and loaner trays

• Prepared rigid and flexible scopes (i.e., anesthesia scopes)

• Daily use of Abacus system

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center - New York, NY 07/2012 - 07/2014 Sterile Processing Technician

• Decontamination of instruments used from surgical cases

• Prepared neurological and cardiac instrument trays with implants and loaner trays

• Autoclaving including steam and sterrad

• Choosing case carts for the operating room including preference cards for doctors

• Prepared rigid and flexible scopes (i.e., anesthesia scopes)

• Attended training seminars to enhance skills and knowledge of the sterile processing department Robert Woods Johnson University Hospital - New Brunswick, NJ 06/2010 - 09/2011 Surgical Instrument Technician

• Prepared instrument trays used in surgical procedures as well as sterilization and decontamination of instruments

• Intensive preparation with scopes used for surgical procedures

• Specialized in orthopedic, cardiac and neurological instruments used in surgical procedures

• Office administrative skills, answering multi—line telephones Westchester Medical Center - Valhalla, NY 07/2009 - 04/2010 Instrument Technician

• Specialized in orthopedic instruments for orthopedic surgeries Beth Israel Hospital - New York, NY 08/2006 - 06/2009 Instrument Technician

• Responsibilities include preparation of instrumentation used in surgical procedures, autoclaving, and decontamination of instruments

Hospital for Joint Disease - New York, NY 08/1992 - 10/2005 Sterile Processing Technician

• Responsibilities included retrieving, assembling and decontaminating instruments

• Assisted in operations, under the supervision of surgeons, registered nurses, or other surgical personnel, pass instruments and other supplies to surgeons and surgeon’s assistants, hold retractors, cut sutures, and help count sponges, needles, supplies and instruments

• Prepared operating room, adjusting lights and equipment, surgical instruments and equipment, sterile drapes and sterile solutions, assembled sterile and non—sterile equipment, adjusted, verified equipment functioned correctly

• Prepared and transported patients for surgery and/or recovery room

• Assisted in the patient ambulatory care unit.

SHERMAN L. WASHINGTON *******@*****.*** 862-***-**** STERILE PROCESSING TECHNICIAN Montefiore Hospital - Bronx, NY 04/1990 - 04/1991

Instrument Technician

• Assisted in operations, under the supervision of surgeons, registered nurses, or other surgical personnel, pass instruments and other supplies to surgeons and surgeon’s assistants, hold retractors, cut sutures, and help count sponges, needles, supplies and instruments

• Prepared and transporting patients for surgery, helping transfer patients to the recovery room

• Assisted in the patient ambulatory care unit and patient recovery room Ross University - New York, NY 03/1987 - 12/1989

Student Coordinator/Rep

• Coordinated itineraries and travel arrangements of assigned students to attend computer schools in the Caribbean Islands

SEMINARS/TRAININGS

OSHA in-service, employee relations, surgical instruments, techniques and neurosurgery. SKILLS

Decontamination of Instruments, Sterilize Instrument Trays, ABACUS Computer Skills, Assemble Instruments, Case Cart System, Autoclaving Sterilization, Sequential Instrument Tray Wrapping, Orthopedics Instrument and Operating Room Sterile Techniques.

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