Megan Racila
Dover-Foxcroft,ME
Summary
Highly-motivated employee with desire to take on new challenges. Strong work ethic, adaptability and exceptional interpersonal skills. Adept at working effectively unsupervised and quickly mastering new skills.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
1
1
Certificate
Work History
Medical Assistant
Harrington Family Health Center
06.2023 - 09.2023
- Sanitized, restocked, and organized exam rooms and medical equipment.
- Directed patients to exam rooms, fielded questions, and prepared for physician examinations.
- Obtained client medical history, medication information, symptoms, and allergies.
- Performed medical records management, including filing, organizing and scanning documents.
- Collected and documented patient medical information such as blood pressure and weight.
- Documented vital signs and health history for patients in clinic and hospital environments.
- Assisted with routine checks and diagnostic testing by collecting and processing specimens.
- Assisted physicians with minor surgeries, including preparing operating room and sterilizing instruments.
- Kept medical supplies in sufficient stock by monitoring levels and submitting replenishment orders before depleted.
- Completed clinical procedures and gathered patient data for interpretation by physician.
- Taught patients about medications, procedures, and care plan instructions.
- Collaborated with medical and administrative personnel to maintain patient-focused, engaging and compassionate environment.
- Obtained and documented patient medical history, vital signs and current complaints at intake.
- Completed EKGs and other tests based on patient presentation in office.
- Prepared lab specimens for diagnostic evaluation.
- Explained procedures to patients to reduce anxieties and increase patient cooperation.
- Oriented and trained new staff on proper procedures and policies.
- Updated inventory, expiration and vaccine logs to maintain current tracking documentation.
- Measured patient pulse oximetry.
- Helped improve patient outcomes by educating and advising on relevant treatments and care.
- Supported duties for diagnostic and technical treatment procedures, such as setting up and operating special medical equipment and apparatus.
- Measured patient spirometry.
Lead sales associate
Dollar General
12.2022 - 02.2023
- Arrange new merchandise with signage and appealing displays to encourage customer sales and move overstock items
- Receive and display product shipments on store retail shelves upon delivery
- Collect payments from provide accurate change
- Train new team members in cash register operation, stock procedures and customer services
- Help customers find specific products, answer questions and offer product advice
- Get all tills and deposit ready for the bank before closing.
- Handled cash register operations and customer transactions to process payments.
- Trained, coached, and mentored new sales associates for maximum performance.
- Answered customer questions about products and services, helped locate merchandise, and promoted key items.
- Processed and stocked merchandise in accordance with store standards.
- Maintained store visual standards by setting up window and interior displays to merchandising guidelines.
- Provided exceptional customer service to foster client loyalty and satisfaction.
CRMA
Neighborhood Residential
05.2019 - 12.2022
- Monitored expiration of medications and medical supplies through counting and checking
- Received supply of ordered medications to mix or assemble drugs for administration to residents
- Looked for physical, emotional and symptomatic changes in residents condition and obtained necessary care for medical concerns
- Collected specimens from residents for laboratory testing purposes
- Documented information in resident charts and communicated information to the managers
- Answered patient call signals and signal lights to determine resident needs
- Obtained, recorded and reported resident vital signs for medication administration
- Promoted clean and sanitary environment by maintaining and cleaning equipment daily
- Supported activities of daily living by serving meals, feeding, ambulating and turning over and positioning residents
- Provided physical support to assist residents with bathing, dressing, and toileting
- Administered medications to residents
- Assisted with transferring residents in and out of wheelchairs and adaptive equipment
- Kept medical supply room and resident rooms stocked with necessary supplies, equipment and instruments
- Planned and served meals and snacks to residents according to prescribed diets
- Turned and repositioned bedridden residents to prevent bedsores
- Assisted nurses with wound care for pressure ulcers, bed sores, and surgical site wounds
- Assisted with lifting residents to move on and off beds
- Prevented spread of infection by consistent hand washing, universal precautions and special isolation procedures
- Reduced errors by hand-counting controlled medications, accurately measuring liquids and reconstituting antibiotics
- Prepared various medications per shift to distribute to resident orally, topically or through inhalation
- Communicated with residents to determine feelings, need for assistance or social and emotional support
- Reminded residents to take prescribed medications or nutritional supplements
- Safely and accurately prepared all medications and sterilized products by using proper techniques, calculations and standard of precautions
- Documented and reported observations of resident behavior, complaints or physical symptoms to nurses
- Researched medications to better understand properties and interactions with other drugs
- Monitored residents with self-administered medications and reported deviation from plans of care to licensed or registered nurse.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
University of Maine At Augusta
Augusta, ME05.2025
Skills
- Verbal and written communication
- Order processing
- Problem-solving
- Reliable and punctual
- Reading comprehension skills
- Excellent communication skills
- Superb time management friendly and outgoing
- Documentation and record keeping
- Listening skills
- Outgoing personality
- Written and oral communication skills
- Energetic self-starter
- Procedure Assistance
- Patient-Focused Care
- Phlebotomy
- Indirect Patient Care
- Data Entry
- Medical Terminology
- HIPAA Compliance
- Emptying Catheter Bags
- Complex Problem-Solving
- Vital Sign Monitoring
- Medical Procedures
- Electronic Medical Records
- Patient Relations
- Trustworthy Companion
- Compassionate
- Lab Equipment Calibration
- Chronic Disease Management
- Patient Assessments
- Tube Feedings and Medications Familiarity
- Therapeutic Procedures
- Patient Feeding
- Patient Bathing
- Adaptable
- First Aid
- Centrifuge Operation
- Sterile Technique
- Suctioning
- Medical Records Management
- Customer Service
- Needs Assessments
- Laboratory Maintenance
- Lab Equipment Operation
- OB/GYN Procedures
- Emergency Procedures Understanding
- Diagnostic Procedures
- Equipment Sterilization
- EMR / EHR
- Patient Management
- Knowledge of EKG Rhythm Interpretation
- Inventory and Supply Management
- Hospice Care
- Direct Patient Care
- Electronic Health Records
- Dementia and Alzheimer's Knowledge
- Medical Terminology Knowledge
- Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
- Compassionate Caregiver
- Professional Bedside Manner
- Reliable Transportation
- Companionship and Emotional Support
- Valid [State] Driver's License
- Simple Dressings
- CPR
- Electrocardiographic Rhythm Recognition
- Patient Flow Management
Certification
- CRMA, License, 2017
- CCMA, License, 2022
Timeline
Medical Assistant
Harrington Family Health Center
06.2023 - 09.2023
Lead sales associate
Dollar General
12.2022 - 02.2023
CRMA
Neighborhood Residential
05.2019 - 12.2022
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
University of Maine At Augusta
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