KATASHA CHAMBERS
Medical Assistant
Seagoville,TX
Summary
Experienced medical assistant seeks position in providing direct and indirect patient care in a busy medical office. Competent and resourceful team player with clerical and basic healthcare skills looking for position in busy growing medical office.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Unit Tech/ HUC
Parkland Health & Hospital System
07.2023 - Current
- Coordinates patient care and clerical needs by acting as the primary contact for the unit, while assisting and responding to information requests from all employees, patient families and others to effectively service unit staff and customers by providing a permanent information resource within the unit
- Performs specified patient care activities, under the direction of a Registered Nurse, including but not limited to providing basic hygiene care, sterile and unsterile treatments.
- Prepares and processes hardcopy and computerized patient files by entering, sorting, and updating information to ensure accurate and complete records are maintained for each patient
- Admits, transfers and discharges patients by creating charts, checking rooms, and receiving, logging, and storing patient valuables and non-valuable to facilitate the administration of patient services
- Orders, picks-up and delivers medical supplies, non-medical supplies, laboratory requisitions, patient specimens and other items while expediting other routine requests
- Ensures work areas are stocked and rotated to ensures removal of supplies prior to expiration date.
Senior Medical Assistant
Methodist Health System Liver Institute
09.2020 - 07.2023
- Implement patient care under the guidance and direction of all physicians and/or RN’s
- Screen phone calls during triage
- Assists physicians in providing nursing care to patients in accordance with clinic policies and procedures
- Takes patient history and vitals
- Assist in Rx refills via Fax, E-Rx or phone calls and updating in the patient medication module
- Enter appropriate, evaluation, pre- and post- transplant data, test/procedure results obtained from external and internal sources into transplant database
- Obtain and communicate test results to patients as directed
- Mail appropriate correspondence to all referral sites, referring physicians and patients promptly.
- Reduced patient wait times by effectively prioritizing tasks and managing patient flow during busy clinic hours.
Administrative Medical Assistant
WellMed Dallas
07.2017 - 11.2019
- Duties are answering telephones, greeting patients, updating and filing patients' medical records, filling out insurance forms, handling correspondence, scheduling appointments, arranging for hospital admission and laboratory services, and handling billing and bookkeeping;
- Scheduled patient appointments in respective doctors' calendars and followed up with reminder phone calls.
- Prepares patients for examination by performing preliminary physical tests; taking blood pressure, weight, and temperature; reporting patient history summary.
- Prepared patient charts by gathering and organizing medical records ahead of appointments.
- Conducted regular quality assurance audits of administrative procedures to identify areas for improvement and ensure adherence to best practices.
Patient Care Tech/Unit Tech
Parkland Health & Hospital System
01.2005 - 07.2017
- Performs specified patient care activities and basic clerical tasks under the direction of a Register committed to the provision of patient centered/patient valued care
- Assess patients prior to patients' admittance and responsible for reporting important information and/or any changes to the RN
- Also responsible for taking vital signs, drawing blood, d/c IVs
- Responsible for accurate documentation of information related to the patient treatment, assist nurse daily routines
- Initiate basic CPR measures in the event of cardiac and/or pulmonary arrest and respond to emergency situations related to medical improvements of patients.
Patient Care Assistant Emergency Room Tech
Methodist Medical Center
01.2016 - 01.2017
- Assisted nursing staff with completing daily rounds, documenting vital signs and answering calls.
- Completed activities of daily living for patients unable to self-care, and assisted those with limited mobility in completing tasks.
- Take the patient’s EKG and place a copy in the patient’s chart and provide a second copy for the doctor to review
- Responded to patient emergencies with immediate care and notified clinicians to provide comprehensive assistance.
- Supported patient admissions, discharges, and transfers to promote team productivity.
- Performed diagnostic tests and reported results to healthcare providers.
Education
High School Diploma -
H Grady Spruce High School
Dallas, TX05.2002
Skills
- Team Leadership
- CPR
- Patient-focused care
- Phlebotomy
- Data Entry
- Medical Assistant
- Medical office administration
- Medical Records Management
- Medical Terminology
Certification
- CNA License
- MA Certification
References
Available Upon Request
Languages
English
Full Professional
Timeline
Unit Tech/ HUC
Parkland Health & Hospital System
07.2023 - Current
Senior Medical Assistant
Methodist Health System Liver Institute
09.2020 - 07.2023
Administrative Medical Assistant
WellMed Dallas
07.2017 - 11.2019
Patient Care Assistant Emergency Room Tech
Methodist Medical Center
01.2016 - 01.2017
Patient Care Tech/Unit Tech
Parkland Health & Hospital System
01.2005 - 07.2017
High School Diploma -
H Grady Spruce High School
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