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Skills:nursing

health care assisstant 11/2006 - current
ghana health service, accra, osu Ghana
Industry: health
health assistant jobs
• Assists in the doctor's diagnostic procedures • Records the doctor's examination findings • Records general body measurements • Records height and weight data • Gathers vital signs, general vision data • Collects blood and urine samples • Conducts in-office laboratory tests • Prepares patient x-ray identification markers • Conducts assigned x-ray patient positioning and exposures • Conducts x-ray film processing • Place pneumatic tourniquet • Confirm procedure with surgeon • Drape patient within surgeon’s guidelines • Provide retraction of tissue and organs for optimal visualization with regard to tissue type and appropriate retraction instrument and/or technique • Assist in maintaining homeostasis by direct pressure, use and application of appropriate surgical instrument for the task, placement of ties, placement of suture ligatures, application of chemical haemostatic agents, or other measures as directed by the surgeon • Use electrocautery mono and bi-polar • Clamp, legate, and cut tissue per surgeon’s directive • Harvest saphenous vein, including skin incision, per surgeon’s directive • Dissect common femoral artery and bifurcate per surgeon’s directive • Maintain integrity of sterile field • Close all wound layers (facia, subcutaneous and skin) as per surgeon’s directive • Insert drainage tubes per surgeon’s directive • Select and apply wound dressings • Assist with resuscitation of patient during cardiac arrest or other life-threatening events in the operating room Perform any other duties or procedures incident to the surgical procedure Surgical Department Jan 2007 – March 2008 • Determine specific equipment needed per procedure • Review permit to confirm procedure and special needs--

yeji senoin secondary school 01/1996 - 09/1999
yeji, yeji, Ghana
Degree: High School Or Below
Major:scince
Minor:n/a
scince

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