Angela Johnson
Festus,MO
Overview
2026
2026
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Patient Care Technician
Sunny Hill Home Healthcare
06.2025 - 08.2025
- Monitored patient vital signs and reported changes to nursing staff.
- Assisted patients with daily living activities, ensuring comfort and dignity.
- Maintained cleanliness and organization of patient care areas, promoting safety standards.
- Collaborated with multidisciplinary teams to coordinate comprehensive patient care plans.
Dental Assistant
Bonne Terre Prison
05.2021 - 08.2021
- Assisted in patient care by preparing treatment rooms and sterilizing instruments.
- Supported dentists during procedures, ensuring efficient workflow and patient comfort.
- Managed patient records using electronic health systems to maintain confidentiality and accuracy.
- Educated patients on oral hygiene practices, contributing to improved overall dental health.
Secretary
Miscellaneous/Dad Brother in Law
2000 - 2019
Secretary's
Dad or Brother in Law
2000 - 2019
- Managed daily office operations, ensuring smooth workflow and communication.
- Maintained organized filing systems, improving document retrieval efficiency.
- Assisted with bookkeeping tasks, ensuring accuracy in financial records.
- Implemented effective correspondence protocols, improving communication clarity.
- Handled sensitive information discreetly, maintaining confidentiality when managing personnel files or financial data.
- Answered multi-line phone system and enthusiastically greeted callers.
- Entered data into system and updated customer contacts with information to keep records current.
- This was not a permanent daily job.
- I mostly filled in when needed.
Dental Assistant/Office Assistant
Dr's Herman and Grumke DDS
02.2002 - 12.2017
- I was trained on the job by the Dr. I worked for for 14 years.
Dental Assistant
Apple Dental Group
08.2001 - 08.2014
- Trained new staff on operational procedures and best practices for dental assisting.
- Coordinated scheduling of appointments to optimize clinic efficiency and reduce wait times.
- Implemented inventory control measures, ensuring availability of necessary dental supplies.
- Developed protocols for infection control, enhancing safety standards within the facility.
- Cleaned and sanitized dental tools and equipment, straightened treatment rooms, and restocked supplies to prep for next patient and maintain health and safety practices.
- Maintained a clean and sterile work environment to prevent cross-contamination and infection.
- Sanitized trays, instruments, and surfaces for clean dental office setting and patient safety.
- Provided chairside assistance during examinations, improving dentist efficiency and patient satisfaction.
- Performed x-rays safely while adhering to radiation safety guidelines, ensuring high-quality diagnostic images for dentists'' evaluations.
- Prepared and arranged instruments, medications, and required materials for dental procedures.
- Successfully assisted dentist by performing four-handed dentistry and other chair-side duties.
- Sterilized rooms and prepped equipment and instruments for Number procedures daily.
- Performed general chair-side duties for general dentistry, endo procedures, and oral surgery.
- Documented patient dental health information, medical history, and vital signs for future reference.
- Assisted dentists with complex procedures, ensuring optimal patient care and treatment outcomes.
- Assisted dentists, hygienists, and other personnel by handing appropriate tools and supplies needed for procedures.
- Prepared instruments and equipment for use in dental procedures, ensuring their availability when needed.
- Explained treatment procedures and instructed patients on home care guidelines.
- Created dental impressions used for diagnostics, opposing models and study casts to make crowns, bridges, and other dental prosthetics.
- Managed inventory of dental supplies, reducing waste and optimizing resource allocation.
- Maintained dental supply inventory by checking stock to determine inventory levels and placing and expediting orders for supplies.
- Prepared patient x-rays and images for dentist review.
- Took dental images following strict patient protection rules, applying lead aprons.
- Recorded patients' health histories, documented current symptoms, and pulled up records from prior visits for dentists to view and evaluate.
- Supported dentists during oral surgeries by preparing surgical rooms with necessary tools and sterilized instruments.
- Educated patients on proper oral hygiene techniques, promoting long-term dental health.
- Increased patient retention by building rapport through excellent communication skills and a friendly demeanor.
- Contributed to office organization by maintaining accurate patient records and updating files regularly.
- Reduced appointment cancellations by implementing reminder calls and text messaging services, resulting in improved scheduling efficiency.
- Handled administrative tasks such as billing, insurance claims processing, and appointment confirmation calls to support office operations efficiently.
- Collaborated with the dental team to develop customized treatment plans for individual patients.
- Conducted preliminary assessments of new patients, gathering crucial information for accurate diagnoses.
- Enhanced patient comfort by carefully explaining procedures and addressing concerns prior to treatments.
- Contributed to clinic's reputation for excellence by consistently receiving positive patient feedback.
- Streamlined appointment scheduling, reducing wait times and enhancing patient satisfaction.
- Streamlined digital x-ray processing, reducing wait time for diagnosis and treatment planning.
- Facilitated patient education on oral hygiene practices, contributing to improved dental health.
- Supported dental procedures, ensuring efficient operation and patient satisfaction.
- Improved patient care with meticulous attention to instrument sterilization and preparation.
- Maintained cleanliness and organization of dental office, creating welcoming atmosphere for patients.
- Improved dental procedure outcomes with accurate preparation of filling and crown materials.
- Enhanced patient rapport by consistently delivering compassionate and professional care.
- Assisted in emergency dental procedures, providing critical support in high-pressure situations.
- Enhanced team productivity by providing timely assistance during complex dental procedures.
- Increased office efficiency by maintaining patient records with up-to-date information.
- Contributed to comfortable patient experience, offering reassurance and support throughout treatments.
- Collaborated with dental team to develop treatment plans, ensuring patient needs were met comprehensively.
- Prepared treatment areas for patient care, ensuring sterile and organized environment.
- Conducted inventory management to maintain essential supplies, avoiding procedural delays.
- Prepared and sterilized instruments and materials for use by dentists.
- Monitored patient comfort and safety during dental procedures.
- Assisted dentists by passing instruments, suctioning intraoral fluids, adding water, and mixing materials for fillings, Type, casts and impressions.
- Scheduled and confirmed patient appointments.
- Entered patient data into computer system, adhering to strict privacy laws and maintaining high level of accuracy.
- Helped dentists restore teeth by applying permanent and temporary fillings and crowns.
- Exposed, developed and mounted dental x-rays.
- Verified patient insurance eligibility and benefits.
- Designed dental report card to explain patient dental health status and treatment plans.
Education
High school diploma - undefined
DeSoto High School
Skills
CPR 2025-2027
Certification
- CPR Certification Present
- Certified Dental Assistant Present
- I worked for Apple Dental in twin Oaks for a total of 15 years. I have known Dr Herman since 2003 when I started. I did not go to Dental school. My boss Dr WJ Herman trained me. I worked there full time until I had my youngest in 2014, and started an at home bakery business. To be able to be a stay at home mom. All of mt kids are in school now.
Assessments
- Attention to Detail — Proficient March 2020
- Identifying differences in materials, following instructions, and detecting details among distracting information.
- Full results: Proficient
- Basic Computer Skills: PC — Proficient March 2020
- Performing basic computer operations, navigating a Windows OS, and troubleshooting common computer problems.
- Scheduling — Proficient June 2020
- Cross-referencing agendas and itineraries to avoid scheduling conflicts.
- Verbal Communication — Highly Proficient June 2020
- Speaking clearly, correctly, and concisely
- Full results: Highly Proficient
- Customer Focus & Orientation — Proficient June 2020
- Responding to customer situations with sensitivity
- Following Directions — Highly Proficient June 2020
- Following multi-step instructions.
- Indeed Assessments provides skills tests that are not indicative of a license or certification, or continued development in any professional field.
Timeline
Patient Care Technician
Sunny Hill Home Healthcare
06.2025 - 08.2025
Dental Assistant
Bonne Terre Prison
05.2021 - 08.2021
Dental Assistant/Office Assistant
Dr's Herman and Grumke DDS
02.2002 - 12.2017
Dental Assistant
Apple Dental Group
08.2001 - 08.2014
High school diploma - undefined
DeSoto High School
Secretary
Miscellaneous/Dad Brother in Law
2000 - 2019
Secretary's
Dad or Brother in Law
2000 - 2019