Andrea brings over 20 years of experience in healthcare to the helm of Bakas and Associates. She is a nurse practitioner who has served as a multi-specialty surgical assistant, with an abiding interest and expertise in the workings of the operating room. Her most recent work has been in orthopedic surgery, serving hip and knee replacement patients.
She is the author of “Learn to be an OR Circulator”, a hybrid 4-session course to teach nurses how to function in the outpatient operating room setting. Her professional background includes ventures in public health research, project management and teaching. In 2016, she served as Clinical Advisor for incoming nurse practitioner students at her alma mater.
In addition to her certification in Legal Nurse Consulting, she is board certified in Family Practice and has earned Masters degrees in both Public Health and Nursing. She is a certified RN First Assistant and certified Operating Room nurse. She served as a surgical assistant on volunteer surgery missions in Honduras, Guatemala and Nicaragua. In 2016, she joined Team Rubicon’s “Project Hermes,” traveling to northern Greece to provide critical care to persons displaced by conflict and instability in Syria, Afghanistan & Iraq.
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