Mariela Castanon

Per Diem Medical Assistant train to assist in multiple specialties such as:

Mohs surgery / Dermatology

-Assist in procedure room preparation

-Maintain sterile techniques

- Medication administration and preparation

-Assist with pre-and-post procedures including assessment of discharge

-Scribe (Provide accurate and timely documentation throughout visit)

- Assist provider during skin checks

- Suture/ Staples removal

- Wound Clean/ Pressure Dressing

- Assist in maintaining inventory

- Schedule patients for follow up and procedures

- Process lab orders ( wound culture, biopsies)

-Accutane Questionnaire

-Epic experience

Medical Assistant Experience

Urology

- room setup

- PVRs

Pain Management

Family Medicine/ Internal Medicine

Infectious Disease

Orthopedics

- Coordinate, asses , and implement patient care by determining if patient needs x-ray before seeing provider

Nephrology

Endocrinology

• Clinical Skills: Vital Signs, EKG, blood glucose check, ear irrigation, specimen collection such as flu, covid & strep test, order routine labs, and obtaining patient history.
• Administering medication PO, IM, SQ, IV and piggy bag med administration.
• Assisting in minor surgery (hormone therapy replacement BIOTE) Room preparation and equipment sterilization.
• Laboratory skills: Proper patient identification procedures
• Venipuncture
• Capillary blood draws
• Process lab orders (Quest & Labcorp)
• Running sample specimens such as flu, strep, covid antigen and antibody test, mono, h-pylory, occult blood test,cbc & cmp.
• Educated patients about weight loss meals and plans according to patient height & weight.
• Phone MA duties:
• Calling patients to inform lab results
• Medication refills
• Prior Authorizations
• Scanning patient medical records
• Assisted in front desk: greeting patients, scheduling using Athena EMR, answering phone calls, data entry, insurance verification and administrative duties.
• Aesthetics skills
• Micro-needling certification
• Microdermabrasion
• Lasser hair removal training
• Weight Loss pt education
• In Body interpretation
• Zerona
• Ozempic, Trizeptide, Mounjaro patient education and dosage refill.

• Vital signs
• Medication administration PO, IM, & SQ
• EKG
• Collection of specimens
• Physical exams
• Spirometry
• Ear lavage
• Patient education on procedures/ medications
• Collection of pts past medical history
• Collection of patient medication list
• Venipuncture
• Lab processing for Labcorp, Quest, & Labdaw
• Rapid test like flu, strep, cbc, cmp, UA, h.pylori, mono, hcg.
• CPT coding for appropriate lab billing.