Dayanara Estrella
Tucson,AZ
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
Work History
Medical Assistant
Arizona Pain Care Center
12.2024 - 02.2026
- Ensures that exam rooms are clean, stocked, and appropriately set up each day prior to rooming patients.
- Manage rooming and patient flow, including pre-visit preparation, assisting with the patient visit, and post-visit duties.
- Prepare patients for appropriate exams/procedures.
- Obtain vital signs; pertinent information and record information in patient's medical records.
- Performs medication review and reconciliation.
- Notes allergies as well as verifies medications the patient is currently using.
- Medications patients have discontinued are recorded in visit notes.
- Assists in patient education by providing informational pamphlet and after care instructions, and/or after visit summary as instructed by the Provider.
- Gather appropriate documents and signatures necessary to assist the Provider in making treatment decisions.
- Receives and records lab/radiological test results (may include outside medical records) via telephone or computer and ensures that those results and related reports are with the patient’s medical record at the time of the patient’s visit.
- Relays Providers instructions/orders to pharmacy (refills only without changes), patients, and other entities via computer, phone, fax, or mail.
- Collect urine specimens routinely for drug screenings.
- The goal is to monitor medication compliance, check that prescribed drugs are present, and verify that no unprescribed or illicit substances are being used.
- Set up the room for Ultrasound guided injections and assist passing the provider with needed tools or supplies; also taking the picture or adjusting the image on the machine.
- Setting up the room and putting the patient in the needed position on the exam table for MLS laser therapy sessions.
- Gather and submit clinical documentation, medical charts, and patient data via online insurance portals or direct fax for mandatory pre-approvals from insurance companies before treatments, services, or prescriptions occur.
Medical Assistant
Copperstate OBGYN
01.2023 - 06.2023
- Welcoming patients.
- Taking medical histories.
- Taking patients vitals.
- Explaining treatment procedures to patients.
- Preparing patients for examinations.
- Assisting the physician during examination/procedures.
- Collecting and preparing laboratory specimens.
- Performing basic laboratory tests.
- Instructing patients about medication and special diets.
- Preparing and administering medications, including by intramuscular, intradermal, and subcutaneous injections—including vaccinations/immunizations, as directed by a physician or other licensed provider (e.g., a nurse practitioner or physician assistant).
- Transmitting prescription refills as directed.
- Phlebotomy.
- Wound care and changing dressings.
- Scheduling appointments, handle billing coding and filling out insurance forms.
- Answer the telephone, call patients back, call patients to inform of lab results.
- Produce and distribute correspondence memos, letters, faxes and forms.
- Scanned in important documents and surgery photos to patient charts.
- Clean and sanitize surgical instruments, put away surgical instruments where they belong.
- Clean and sanitize trophon probe, clean and restock all the rooms and bathrooms.
- Take out the biohazard bags and sharps containers.
Home Health Aid
Nursing Service Inc
07.2022 - 01.2023
- Bathing client.
- Doing their laundry.
- Cooking meals for them.
- Clean/maintain their home.
- Driving them to appointments or anywhere else they needed.
- Give them their medication at specific times.
- Put them to bed.
Tax Analyst
H&R Block
01.2020 - Current
- Conduct interviews and deliver services in-person or via virtual tools like video, chat, and email.
- Prepare, review, and file complex tax returns, including 1040s, 1120S, and partnership returns.
- Ensures company compliance with federal, state, and local tax laws by preparing tax returns, researching regulations, and analyzing financial data to minimize tax liability.
- Provides in-depth tax preparation, planning, and advisory services for individuals and small businesses, often handling complex returns year-round.
- This role focuses on building client relationships, providing audit support, and leveraging virtual tools for remote client engagement.
- Help clients with IRS letters, tax amendments, and audit representation.
- Answer phone calls, make in office appointments, video appointments, supply inventory, vacuum office, clean restroom, count petty cash drawer, count the cashier drawer, print out the daily reports, and disinfect the desk.
Medical Assistant
Royal Air Force Lakenheath AFB
, United Kingdom
08.2023 - 07.2024
- I could only work on base in the UK cause I did not have a work visa to work there only my husband did.
- They couldn’t offer me employment on base at the clinic since they were already fully staffed but they said I could volunteer working there so when I was needed they would call me and I would go and work at the clinic on base there for military personnel.
- I would sometimes help at their other location there RAF Mildenhall it was 30 mins away from the other base.
- I volunteered there as a Medical Assistant in the front and back office.
- Located in Suffolk, England. I used to be married to an Airforce military man. We got stationed there for 3 years.
Timeline
Medical Assistant
Arizona Pain Care Center
12.2024 - 02.2026
Medical Assistant
Royal Air Force Lakenheath AFB
08.2023 - 07.2024
Medical Assistant
Copperstate OBGYN
01.2023 - 06.2023
Home Health Aid
Nursing Service Inc
07.2022 - 01.2023
Tax Analyst
H&R Block
01.2020 - Current