Amanda Malcom
Albuquerque,NM
Summary
Detail-oriented patient care technician with experience in acute care. Personable and compassionate with superior communication and rapport-building skills. Strong commitment to comprehensive and individualized patient care and education. Liaises with medical professionals, patients and family to provide continuous top-quality care and education.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
Work History
Medical/ Surgical Assistant
LUIS CUADROS MD LLC
03.2012 - 04.2022
- Courteously greets and directs customers
- Enter new patient and make charts
- Answer phones
- Reminder phone calls to patients
- Check out patients
- Operates patient monitoring systems
- Performed bedside testing such as Oximetry, ECG, Glucometer, urinalysis
- Removed staples and sutures
- Assists nurses and physicians with sterile procedures
- Assist with application and removal of restraints under direction of RN
- Applies oxygen delivery devices as ordered without altering settings or determining rates
- Assists patients with portable or wall oxygen
- Cleans and stores equipment
- Empty trash, linen bags and sharps containers
- Stocks medical supplies, linens and paper goods
- Inventories equipment as required
- Processes broken equipment as directed
- Maintains equipment logs as required
- Prepare all supplies and instruments required for surgical procedures
- With aseptic technique prepare mayo stands for surgical procedures
- Prepare patients skin for surgical procedures
- Instrument counts prior to each procedure
- Assist surgeon with instruments during surgery
- Prepare and label specimens containers
- Ensure all instruments and equipment are in working order prior to surgery
- Clean and decontaminate reusable equipment and instruments
- Ensure patient safety
- Applied antiseptics and sterile dressings to cover surgical locations and boost healing
Patient care technician
Presbyterian Hospital
01.2010 - 01.2012
- Transport patients
- Removed peripheral, intravenous therapy lines
- Operates patient monitoring systems
- Performed bedside testing such as Oximetry, ECG, Glucometer, urinalysis
- Performed wound care and dressing changes
- Removed staples and sutures
- Assists nurses and physicians with sterile procedures
- Prepare patients skin for surgical procedures
- Assist with application and removal of restraints under direction of RN
- Applies oxygen delivery devices as ordered without altering settings or determining rates
- Assists patients with portable or wall oxygen
- Cleans and stores equipment
- Empty trash, linen bags and sharps containers
- Stocks medical supplies, linens and paper goods
- Inventories equipment as required
- Processes broken equipment as directed
- Maintains equipment logs as required
- Pick up supplies needed for OR room
- Deliver specimens
Unit Secretary/ Nurse
Unit Presbyterian Hospital
01.2007 - 01.2010
- Performed clerical duties for nursing unit
- Performed specific patient care procedures under direction of RN or Physician
- Courteously greets and directs customers
- Kept locator boards current
- Answered phones and efficiently processes information, including accurately transcribing physicians orders
- Processed necessary paperwork/information for patient transfers and discharges
- Assembled patients charts and organizes them daily by filing pertinent reports
- Order office supplies for unit
- Transports patients and documents action in patient record
- Reports information to responsible nurse for resolution when necessary
- Inserts and removes gastric and urethral tubes
- Removed peripheral, intravenous therapy lines
- Operates patient monitoring systems
- Performed bedside testing such as Oximetry, ECG, Glucometer, urinalysis
- Performed wound care and dressing changes
- Removed staples and sutures
- Assists nurses and physicians with sterile procedures
- Assist with application and removal of restraints under direction of RN
- Applies oxygen delivery devices as ordered without altering settings or determining rates
- Assists patients with portable or wall oxygen
- Cleans and stores equipment
- Empty trash, linen bags and sharps containers
- Stocks medical supplies, linens and paper goods
- Inventories equipment as required
- Processes broken equipment as directed
- Maintains equipment logs as required
Education
BLS - Current
American Heart Association
Albuquerque, NM06.2022
Certificate - Sterile Processing Technology
Central New Mexico Community College
Albuquerque, NM2015
Certificate - Nurse Assistant
Central New Mexico Community College, New Mexico Community College
Albuquerque, NM2008
Unit Secretary -
Central New Mexico Community College
Albuquerque, NM2007
Skills
- Acute Patient Care
- Experience monitoring vital signs
- Experience helping patients with personal care
- BLS
- Aseptic technique procedure setup
- Teamwork and communication
Timeline
Medical/ Surgical Assistant
LUIS CUADROS MD LLC
03.2012 - 04.2022
Patient care technician
Presbyterian Hospital
01.2010 - 01.2012
Unit Secretary/ Nurse
Unit Presbyterian Hospital
01.2007 - 01.2010
BLS - Current
American Heart Association
Certificate - Sterile Processing Technology
Central New Mexico Community College
Certificate - Nurse Assistant
Central New Mexico Community College, New Mexico Community College
Unit Secretary -
Central New Mexico Community College
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