Margaret Cooper

Operating room nurse responsible for circulating in multiple specialties including Orthopedics, Plastics, GYN, General, and Ophthalmology.

Prepare operating rooms by setting up cases, providing and operating special equipment, maintaining a strict level of care and patient safety, and monitoring staff to uphold strict sterile standards.

Provide efficient, effective, and friendly care to patients.

• Operating room nurse responsible for circulating in multiple specialties including General, Plastics, ENT, Orthopedics, Podiatry, GYN, and Pain Management
• Scrub experience in General, Plastics, and GYN
• Prepare operating rooms by setting up cases, providing and operating special equipment, carrying out nursing tasks to provide and maintain a strict level of care and patient safety, and monitoring staff to uphold strict sterile standards
• Provide efficient, effective, and friendly perioperative nursing care to patients

• Prepare the instruments, equipment, and supplies for the procedure
• Maintaining personal contact with patients and relatives, being sensitive to their need for privacy, and ensuring a friendly environment at all times
• Perform the role of circulating nurse and technician for patients undergoing procedures
• Provide assistance to physicians throughout procedures
• Participating in the care and maintenance of endoscopes ensuring a standard of decontamination at all times including accurate records of traceability of endoscopes

• Staff nurse in a 24 bed Ambulatory Procedure Unit from July 1996 until November of 2001 where responsibilities included post-operative recovery care for patients undergoing various inpatient and outpatient procedures
• Duties in the endoscopy unit included assuming the role of the circulating nurse and technician for patients undergoing various endoscopy procedures
• Staff nurse on the Neurology and Neurosurgical Floor from December 1994 until July 1996
• Duties included nursing care on a demanding unit with 31 general care beds