KaTasha Chambers
Dallas,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
20
20
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Unit Tech/ HUC
Parkland Health & Hospital System
07.2023 - Current
- The Unit Technician is expected to be able to perform in the capacity of a Patient Care Assistant and a Health Unit Coordinator
- 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, taking vital signs, and Transports meal trays to patients to ensure sanitary and timely delivery when applicable
- 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
- Monitors ongoing patient status and responds to a patient's change in condition by notifying and assisting nurses and other health team members in handling patient care needs
- Admits, transfers and discharges patients by creating charts, checking rooms, and receiving, logging, and storing patient valuables and nonvaluable 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 ensure removal of supplies prior to expiration date.
Senior Medical Assistant
Methodist Health System Liver Institute
09.2020 - 07.2023
- Maintains strict patient confidentiality and will use complete discretion when discussing patient information
- Implement patient care under the guidance and direction of all physicians, RN's and/or
- Office Manager(s)
- Screen phone calls during triage under the supervision of a physician
- Performs injections with complete documentation
- Assists physicians and/or MA's in providing nursing care to patients in accordance with clinic policies and procedures
- Takes patient history and vitals
- Monthly check for expired medication, keeping appropriate documentation and disposal
- Responsible for unpacking and maintaining medical supplies and vaccines and keeping supply closet organized
- Assist in Rx refills via Fax, E-Rx or phone calls and updating in the patient medication module
- Demonstrates an extensive working knowledge and practice of infection control procedures
- Enter appropriate, evaluation, pre- and post- transplant data, test/procedure results obtained from external and internal sources into transplant database
- Obtain lab and other clinical data required maintaining patients' appropriate MELD score
- Monitor pre- and post- transplant patients
- Obtain and communicate test results to patients as directed
- Communicate patient concerns to appropriate health care provide
- Mail appropriate correspondence to all referral sites, referring physicians and patients promptly.
Administrative Medical Assistant
WellMed Dallas
Texas
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; Verifies patient information by interviewing patient; recording medical history; confirming purpose of visit
- Prepares patients for examination by performing preliminary physical tests; taking blood pressure, weight, and temperature; reporting patient history summary.
Medical Assistant/Patient Care Tech/Unit Tech
Parkland Health & Hospital System
Dallas, TX
01.2005 - 01.2019
- 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 providing direct patient care for assigned patients under the direct supervision of a licensed nurse
- Responsible for accurate documentation of information related to the patient treatment, assist nurse daily routines
- Report any significant information or change in patient condition to the supervisor
- 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
- Take blood, print and affix the labels needed to identify the vials, and deliver the vials to the lab for the appropriate tests
- Prepare patients for surgery, enter orders into the electronic medical records system
- Take the patient's EKG and place a copy in the patient's chart and provide a second copy for the doctor to review
- If an x-ray is needed, take that patient in a wheelchair to the X-ray department
- Hook up a heart monitor as well as an IV and escort the patient to and from the restroom
- Always confirm with the nurse on duty before moving the patient
- Collect urine samples, label the samples appropriately
- Assist the doctor in providing the patient with a splint to immobilize the injury
- After the patient has recovered and has been moved to their room or been released, clean the surgical area by changing the bed sheets and cleaning up the room in preparation for another patient
- Any other duties as assigned by the duty nurse or doctors.
Medical Assistant/Perioperative Assistant
Children's Medical Center
Dallas, TX
01.2008 - 01.2009
- Help the nurse in preparation of children scheduled for day surgery, search computer for patient records or information, pull chart check patients in and out of the pre-op area, take vitals and weight
- Assign exam rooms to await medical team
- Other duties would include assisting patients after surgical procedure by providing fluids and if no problems removing IV and release, file chart, wheel patient to waiting room while securing a safe passage home
- Responsible for reporting any significant information or change in the patient's condition to the nurse on duty, initiate basic CPR measures in the event of a cardiac and/or pulmonary arrest and responsible for responding to any emergency that is related to the medical improvement of patients.
Education
High School Diploma -
H. Grady Spruce High School
Dallas, TX05-2002
Skills
- Direct and indirect patient care
- Clerical skills
- Basic healthcare skills
- Patient care coordination
- Information requests handling
- Basic hygiene care
- Sterile and unsterile treatments
- Vital signs monitoring
- Meal tray transportation
- Patient file preparation and updating
- Medical supplies management
- Laboratory requisitions handling
- Rx refills assistance
- Infection control procedures
- Transplant data entry
- Pre- and post-transplant patient monitoring
- Test results communication
- Administrative duties
- Medical records management
- Insurance forms filling
- Appointment scheduling
- Hospital admission and laboratory services arrangement
- Billing and bookkeeping
- Patient history recording
- Physical tests performance
- Blood pressure, weight, and temperature measurement
- Patient examination preparation
- Patient information verification
- CPR measures initiation
- Emergency response
- Blood sample collection and labeling
- Surgical preparation assistance
- EKG performance
- Heart monitor and IV setup
- Urine sample collection and labeling
- Splint application
- Surgical area cleaning
- Patient assistance after surgical procedure
- Chart filing
- Patient transportation
- CNA License
- MA Certification
- CPR/First Aid certified
Certification
- CNA License
- MA Certification
References
References Available Upon Request
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
Medical Assistant/Perioperative Assistant
Children's Medical Center
01.2008 - 01.2009
Medical Assistant/Patient Care Tech/Unit Tech
Parkland Health & Hospital System
01.2005 - 01.2019
High School Diploma -
H. Grady Spruce High School
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