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Operating Room Senior Staff

Location:
Kuwait City, Kuwait
Posted:
August 20, 2025

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Resume:

MARILOU DE ASIS, USRN

Block *, Stret *, Building 18

Salwa, Kuwait 25609

Cell Phone Number: +965-********

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

QUALIFICATIONS SUMMARY:

I am Filipino, naturalized American Citizen holding a US passport, 47 years old, worked in Kuwait for ten years.

I am a senior staff nurse with 21 years experienced in Operating Room, specialize in General Surgery, Ophthalmology, Plastic Surgery, Bariatric Surgery and ENT Surgery. Has an extensive knowledge and experience in specialize surgical procedures in assisting the surgeon and circulating in the most effective manner. Compassionate and self reliant.

Professional License:

North Carolina Board of Nursing

License number: 366154

Valid Until: August 31, 2025

Vermont Board of Nursing

License number: 026.0033152

Valid Until: March 31,2027

California Board of Nursing

License number: 9538497

Valid Until: April 30, 2026

Philippine Board of Nursing

License number: 0334184

Valid Until: Augst 31, 2026

Kuwait Ministry License

License number: 24251006

License Expiry: September 19, 2025

Areas of Expertise:

Ophthalmology Surgery = 5 Years

General Surgery = 5years

Spine & Joint= 1 Year

General Surgery, Bariatric Surgery and ENT = 9 Years

Plastic Surgery: = 1 Year

Employment History:

Senior Staff Nurse January 2023 to January 2024

Employer: Arkan Clinic, Kuwait

Bed Capacity 10 Bed

Unit/Area Operating Room

Title Senior Staff Nurse

Comprehensive Job Description:

Assisting to the surgeon as scrub & circulating nurse to all the plastic surgery cases.

To provide care for patients, before, during and after the surgery.

Properly check the patient’s name, consent, correct site of the procedure, assess for any allergies and make sure to ask the last meal of the patient.

Carefully verify the patients complete name and birthday for verification.

Assess patient needs, expectations, anxieties and concerns .

Evaluate routine pre – operative orders and skin preparations.

Prepare all the necessary instruments and equipment for that particular surgery.

Orient the patient in the Operating Room and assess the patient’s general health status.

Conduct sign in upon receiving the patient inside the operating room, time out before giving the scalpel. Properly account the sponges, needles and instruments and conduct sign out after the surgery.

Employment History:

Senior Staff Nurse September 2013 to September 2022

Employer Hadi Clinic, Kuwait

Bed capacity 100 Bed Capacity, Canadian Diamond Accredited

Unit/Area Operating Room

Title Senior Staff Nurse

Comprehensive Job Description:

Assisting general surgery, plastic; ear, nose and throat, bariatric & ophthalmology surgery.

To provide care for patients, before, during and after the surgery.

Properly check the patient’s name, consent, correct site of the procedure, assess for any allergies and make sure to ask the last meal of the patient.

Assess patient needs, expectations, anxieties and concerns.

Evaluate routine pre – operative orders and skin preparations.

Prepare all the necessary instruments and equipment for that particular surgery.

Orient the patient in the Operating Room and assess the patient’s general health status.

Conduct sign in upon receiving the patient inside the operating room, time out before giving the scalpel.

Properly account the sponges, needles and instruments and conduct sign out after the surgery.

Preserve and label specimens obtain for laboratory analysis and take care of medico – legal specimen for safe keeping.

Document the process of surgery, carry out health professionals for continuity of care.

Provides immediate post operative post anesthesia care to the patient, monitoring their general hemodynamics and level of consciousness like airway breathing and circulation.

Safely transport the patient back to the room after having been fully recovered from anesthesia, and properly endorse patient to nurse assign in the ward.

Employment History:

STAFF NURSE: December 15, 2010 to December 09, 2011

Employer Tonik Asia Spine and Joint ( HSC Specialist Center) Malaysia

Bed capacity of the hospital 2 Operating Rooms ( Day Surgery)

Unit/Area Operating Room

Comprehensive Job Description :

Provide care with patients having spinal, joint and back pain.

Prepare the surgical site using aseptic techniques and initiate nursing actions based on psychological and physiological changes.

Coordinate the activities of the health care team during the surgical intervention.

Provide comfort to the patient and family by giving the appropriate information.

Carefully verify the patients complete name and birthday for verification.

Assess patient needs, expectations, anxieties and concerns .

Evaluate routine pre – operative orders and skin preparations.

Prepare all the necessary instruments and equipment for that particular surgery.

Orient the patient in the Operating Room and assess the patient’s general health status.

Conduct sign in upon receiving the patient inside the operating room, time out before giving the scalpel. Properly account the sponges, needles and instruments and conduct sign out after the surgery.

Employment History:

Staff Nurse June 02, 2008 to October 11, 2010

July 04, 2005 to October 01, 2007

Employer Dr. Jonathan del Prado

Cebu Eye Associates, Philippines

Bed capacity of the hospital 1 Operating Room (Clinic)

Unit/Area Ophthalmology Operating Room

Comprehensive Job Description :

Working under the direct supervision of the ophthalmologist, assist the surgeon to diagnose and treat various diseases that affect the human eye such us cataracts, partial or full blindness, eye trauma and glaucoma.

Provide pre-operative care, assessment and prepare patients to undergo surgery. Assisting the surgical team and functioning as a scrub nurse.

Carefully and safely position patient for surgery, verify the surgical site, and assist the surgeon during the surgery.

Carefully verify the patients complete name and birthday for verification.

Assess patient needs, expectations, anxieties and concerns .

Evaluate routine pre – operative orders and skin preparations.

Prepare all the necessary instruments and equipment for that particular surgery.

Orient the patient in the Operating Room and assess the patient’s general health status.

Conduct sign in upon receiving the patient inside the operating room, time out before giving the scalpel. Properly account the sponges, needles and instruments and conduct sign out after the surgery.

Employment History:

Staff Nurse September 01, 2000 to May 11, 2005

Employer Cebu Doctors’ University Hospital

Bed capacity of the hospital 350 Bed Capacity

Unit/Area Operating Room

Comprehensive Job Description:

Assisting general surgery, plastic, ear, nose and throat, ophthalmology, cardiac catheterization and cardiovascular surgery.

To provide care for patients, before, during and after the surgery.

Properly check the patients name, consent, correct site of the procedure, assess for any allergies and make sure to ask the last meal of the patient.

Assess patient needs, expectations, anxieties and concerns.

Evaluate routine pre – operative orders and skin preparations.

Prepare all the necessary instruments and equipment for that particular surgery.

Orient the patient in the Operating Room and assess the patient’s general health status.

Conduct sign in upon receiving the patient inside the operating room, time out before giving the scalpel.

Properly account the sponges, needles and instruments and conduct sign out after the surgery.

Preserve and label specimens obtain for laboratory analysis and take care of medico – legal specimen for safe keeping.

Document the process of surgery, carry out health professionals for continuity of care

Provides immediate post operative post anesthesia care to the patient, monitoring their general hemodynamics and level of consciousness like airway breathing and circulation.

Safely transport the patient back to the room after having been fully recovered from anesthesia, and properly endorse patient to nurse assign in the ward.

Professional Qualification:

Education:

Cebu Doctors’ University

Bachelor of Science in Nursing

1995 to 1999

University of Cebu

College of Midwifery

1993 to 1995

Saint James academy

Secondary Education

1989 to 1993

Malhiao Elementary School

Primary Education

1983 to 1989

Certifications taken:

Basic Life Support: Expiry May 2025

CHARACTER REFERENCES:

Mrs Islam Younis

Nurse Manager

Arkan Clinic, Kuwait

Telephone Number: +965********

Laura Sabado

Administrative Nursing Supervisor

Hadi Hospital, Kuwait

Telephone Number: +965********

Rejani Ravi

Operating Room Head Nurse

Hadi Hospital, Kuwait

Telephone Number: +965********

Local 260

Dr. Jonathan del Prado

Oculoplastic Surgeon

Cebu Eye Associates Philippines

Telephone Number: +63-917*******

Mrs Edna Jocelyn Caballero

Nursing Director

Cebu Doctors’ University Hospital

Cebu City

Telephone Number: +633******** / +633********

Mohamad Zafridin Nazer

Operating Room Manager

HSC / Tonik Asia Spine and Joint Surgery

Ampang and Cheras

Kuala Lumpur Malaysia

Telephone number: +603********



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