Alyssa McCracken

The responsibilities that I am required to complete as a support service assistant in the O.R is cleaning the rooms and prepping them for the next surgery, patient pick up and transport to Pac U or the room, stocking all equipment and making sure everything is ready to go for the next working day, grabbing all medical equipment to preform the surgeries, patient care and communication when entering the rooms, picking up blood and taking labs down to the lab, etc.

Key skills needed for this position to be the best :

• Customer Service
• Patient safety and/or care
• Leadership
• Time management
• Self-awareness

During my position here I have recieved multiple certifications and clearances as in CPR Certification, Act 33 Clearance, and Act 73 FBI finger printing.

When working at MedExpress Urgent Care the tasks and responsibilities I was responsible to complete there were scanning all patient information and heath records in to patient's charts, running and performing eligibility on insurance companies, billing and scheduling patients, filing all paper work to their correct places and sending to the correct PCP offices, discharging all patient’s when ready and sending the medication to the correct pharmacy, workers comp claims, etc.

Key skills I had to have to be a FOA

• Organization
• Customer service
• Multitasking
• Data entry
• Empathy

My achievements I've received are an award for always helping and picking up extra shifts when needed and working in health care while dealing and facing Covid-19 since we were a testing clinic.

The responsibilities that I was required to do as a Kennel Assistant were cleaning all the kennel’s before and after an animal was in there, prep the table for when a high-risk animal is coming back, taking the dogs to the bathroom, running bloodwork and making slides to discover what’s in the animal's blood, assisting with elective surgeries, making sure all surgical utensil's are sterile and cleaned for next case, etc.

Key skills needed for a Kennel assistant

• Animal handling
• Patience
• Problem solving