Reuben Kilgore

WORK HISTORY

EDUCATION

ABOUT REUBEN KILGORE

Sutter Health OSC La Jolla, La Jolla, CA 20••••18 Sterile Processing Manager / Lead Surgical Tech Serve on the Quality Assurance Board as well as infection control board; develop educational health stream material, also serve as an auditor of processes and procedures and help implement right practices and standardize hospital practices Staff competency training in national and state regulations. Manager for sterile processing and distribution services, staff education, and joint readiness. Specialty expansions, purchasing of equipment and instruments. Utilized strategies that successfully reduced operating cost by a quarter of the projected budget. Monitor daily activities and overseeing instrument flow. Communicating with Surgeons to assist with surgeon’s needs. Daily and monthly audits of logs and sterilization. First, assist, scrub, operates x-ray and preceptor. Developing team building exercises. Resource for OR rooms and troubleshooting. Preparing case carts and managing sterile core. Sutter Health Carlsbad Surgery Center, Carlsbad, CA 2013 – 2016 Per Diem Surgical Tech Palomar Health Downtown, Escondido, CA 20••••17 Per Diem Surgical Tech / First Assist Apple Valley Outpatient Surgery Center, Apple Valley, CA 2012– 2013 SPD Manager / Lead Tech Led the hiring and training of SPD and technician staff in established standards and procedures Collaborated with physician chiefs to prevent practice deviance and ensure consistent quality of instrumentation for patients. Children\'s Hospital Of LA, Los Angeles, 2012 – 2012 OSC La Jolla Employee OF the Year, 2014