Cynthia Crump
Colbert
Summary
Dynamic professional with a strong background in sterilization and team leadership. Proven ability to enhance workflow efficiency and ensure compliance with quality standards. Focused on delivering exceptional service and fostering a collaborative team culture.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Lead Tech II SPD
Piedmont Athens Regional Medical Center
Athens, GA
08.2007 - Current
- Supervised and trained a team of technicians to ensure high-quality service delivery.
- Conducted routine equipment maintenance and troubleshooting to minimize downtime.
- Planned, scheduled, and delegated daily work to team of employees.
- Conducted quality inspections of completed work, ensuring compliance with established standards and specifications.
- Performed troubleshooting and diagnosis on malfunctioning equipment.
- Optimized workflow for enhanced productivity by streamlining processes and providing technical guidance to team members.
- Monitored and enforced safety measures to mitigate hazards.
- Managed team performance by training, mentoring, disciplining, and motivating employees.
- Processes instruments and equipment
- Orders, restocks, and decontaminates sterilization equipment and instruments
- Collects dirty equipment and instruments
- Sorts, loads, unloads and decontaminates equipment
- Monitors, coordinates, and facilitates sterilization process
- Assembles trays,, basin sets, packages, instruments and equipment and prepares items for sterilization
- Sterilizes instruments, equipment and supplies as required; handles and stores instruments, and equipment and supplies appropriately
- Performs biological and chemical monitoring in accordance with quality assurance standards
- Completes tray audits
- Coordinates with management in order to maintain instruments sharpening/repair schedule for all instruments
- Ensures specialty carts are stocked and ready for immediate use
- Works with managers, OR staff and surgeons to identify/implement methods to improve service
- Completes documentation
- Serves as a preceptor for peers on the central services team and new orienting employees
- Prepares case carts according to procedure and preference cards
- Serves as willing, cooperative, informative, supportive guide for new employees
Education
High School Diploma -
Skills
- Ability to exhibit a higher level of collaboration with peers in making decisions related to surgical processes
- Knowledge of sterilization supplies, equipment and instruments
- Knowledge of organizing, containing, and transporting items of varying compounds, textures, or quantities
- Knowledge of transporting and disposing of hazardous materials and sharp objects according to hospital procedures
- Knowledge of sterilization procedures of various equipment and instruments
- Knowledge of wrapping and repackaging sterilized instruments
- Skilled in using sterilization equipment and instruments
- Skilled in arranging instruments on surgical trays
- Skilled in following written instructions and performing multiple tasks
- Skilled in establishing and maintaining cooperative working relationships with others
- Skill and ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing
- Ability to work as a member of a team
- Ability to adapt quickly to changing situations
- Skill and ability in basic computer skills
Certification
CBSPD Certification from October 2008
Timeline
Lead Tech II SPD
Piedmont Athens Regional Medical Center
08.2007 - Current