James Archer

• In addition to taking vital signs such as blood pressure and temperature for nearly all patients; I have a multitude of responsibilities necessary to keeping the clinic running smoothly:
• Schedule management and care coordination for providers, stocking rooms, medical tool maintenance, technical support for our computer systems, communication between various hospital systems for patient information, images, prescription information, and finding solutions for any and all conflicts that may arise in the clinic
• Keeping our providers on schedule while still giving each patient our full care and attention is imperative to our work as healthcare providers
• Exam, procedure rooms and all equipment are sanitized between patients
• Rooms are prepped for various procedures ranging from cystoscopies, vasectomies and other invasive procedures
• This clinic in particular has roughly 12 providers and 8 patient care coordinators, all of which have their own preferences with patient care
• Medical assistants must be flexible enough to meet the demands of each specialty at a moment’s notice to ensure all departments deliver the best care to patients in a timely manner.

• In this role I have a plethora of responsibilities all related to keeping the clinic running smoothly
• Some of my duties include taking vital signs like blood pressure and pulse for nearly all patients, schedule management and care coordination for providers
• Medical assistants are also in charge of stocking rooms, medical tool maintenance, technical support for our computer systems, communication between various hospital systems for patient information, images, prescription information, and finding solutions for any and all conflicts that may arise in the clinic
• One of our most crucial tasks is to keep our providers on schedule while still giving each patient our full care and attention
• Exam/procedure rooms are sanitized between patients, rooms are prepped for various procedures ranging from Botox injections to electromyography
• This clinic in particular has roughly 14 providers, 5 patient care coordinators and 3 patient service representatives all of which have their own preferences with patient care depending on specialty such as stroke, musculoskeletal or headache
• Medical assistants must be flexible enough to meet the demands of each specialty at a moment’s notice to ensure all departments deliver the best care to patients in a timely manner.

• Serving my peers as a representative in the ASUWB has been one of the most enlightening and unique opportunities of my life
• Not only has it given me more responsibility than any position I’ve been in before, but it allowed me to truly test my limits as a coordinator, communicator, advocator and listener
• The networks tied to my role included working with administrators at the Bothell and Seattle UW campuses, including President Cauce, Provost Richards, Chancellor Esterberg, the Board of Regents and many others
• On a daily and weekly basis, I was tasked with developing agendas, chairing/attending meetings, visiting with students/classrooms and working with my team on their role specific projects
• This role also gave me a look at the behind-the-scenes operations of the University; which gave me a new appreciation for the staff and faculty because of all of the hardships they endure on a day-to-day basis to give students a high-level academic experience
• The growth and development I experienced here has truly prepared me for any setting, any obstacle, any challenge that I will face going forward.

• As a registered medical assistant, I had multiple responsibilities ranging from swabbing patients as young as 9 months old to the elderly and everything in-between for the COVID-19 virus, registering patients into our solv system and explaining the process behind the COVID tests, and directing traffic to ensure an efficient and straightforward drive thru system
• Each of these stations required strong cooperation with my peers as we always treated high volumes of patients with various needs and accessibility requirements, as everyone’s health is unique
• Communication between medical assistants and the site supervisors was essential to a conflict free testing environment
• On a daily basis we required support or needed to offer our support to one another when obstacles frequently arose
• I made sure my peers were taken care of, in addition to our patients, by managing breaks, training new medical assistants, aiding those that had difficulties with patients, restocking supplies at various checkpoints, managing equipment like lights, fans, and heating-units (depending on the outside temperatures), and taking on extra responsibilities when other medical assistants were unable to come to work or continue their work at the testing site
• I took on many of these responsibilities because I genuinely want everyone to be happy and healthy, both the people I work alongside and the patients that I was responsible for treating and serving.

• While working as a Campus Activities Board Member I was tasked with managing, planning and executing events, social gatherings and educational programs and advertising on the Bellevue College campus on a daily basis.
• As a student, managing my time efficiently to stay ahead of my studies while not slacking at work was a daily task in itself.

• As the Assistant Manager of the Taekwondo, I was responsible for managing emails between the owner and our clients
• Keeping people updated on events and schedule changes, payment reminders and sending emails to new clients that had just become aware of our business
• I would also lead classes of young middle school aged children up to adults older than myself
• There was also an afterschool program above the studio for students to practice their homework and classwork between Taekwondo sessions, I was also responsible for managing this section of the business
• Before students arrived for the first lessons I was also in charge of shuttling the students from their schools to the Taekwondo
• My responsibilities here were broad and wildly different from one another.

My tasks were split between building relationships between customers, cleaning, preparing food, connecting with customers, managing the drive thru window, tending to customer's need, cleaning the bar, bathrooms, lobby and back room, making sure the store is stocked with drink ingredients and food orders. I had to be on my feet non-stop and always kept busy with tasks.