Panou Lo
Lakewood,CO
Summary
Career oriented person seeking a challenging and rewarding position in a progressive dental environment that will offer growth, steadiness and opportunity. Focused patient care professional accustomed to prioritizing and delivering basic patient care. Offers 12 years of comprehensive experience in recording vital signs, collecting specimens and preparing accurate documentation. Recognized by patients for delivering five-star patient care.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Patient Care Technician
American Regional Associates
12.2022 - 10.2023
- Assemble dialysis machines and ensure they're working properly
- Monitor patients who are receiving dialysis treatment
- Ensure that dialysis devices are being used properly
- Educate patients on the dialysis process
- Keep instruments sanitized
- Assist doctors and nurses in direct patient care as needed
- Answer patient questions
- Obtain necessary pre and post treatment vital signs and weight and perform vascular access evaluation pre-treatment
- Initiate dialysis treatment
- Monitor patients' response to dialysis therapy
- Obtain vital signs prior to reinfusion, during, and after
- Obtain Hemostasis and apply appropriate dressings
- Evaluate the patient prior to discharge
- Perform and record Pre and Post dialysis evaluation, weight, and vital signs with initial identification
- Responsible for calculating and entry of individual patients' dialysis machine programming for Ultrafiltration (UF) goal; treatment time; and UF modeling as prescribed
- Record accurate and timely information regarding vital signs and treatment parameters onto the Hemodialysis Treatment Sheet
- Report any significant information and/or change in patient condition directly to the registered nurse or supervisor
- Observe patient and conduct machine safety checks
- Obtain all prescribed laboratory testing and prepare specimens for collection
- Prepare, organize, stock, and efficiently utilize supplies.
Oral Surgery Assistant
Boulder oral surgery
08.2021 - 12.2022
- Assist in dental procedures; patients who are under general anesthesia, nitrous, or conscious sedation
- Set up for procedures in a sterile fashion
- Assist in consultations, notate plans and procedures on patients charts.
Oral Surgery Assistant
Comfort Dental Oral Surgery
05.2020 - 08.2021
- Open and closing procedures
- Set up trays and rooms for surgeries
- Prepare patients for day of surgery
- Assist in consultations and surgeries
- Ordering of oxygen tanks and emergency drugs
- End count of anesthesia medications
- Confirm appointments.
Production Worker
Vestas American Wind Technology
01.2019 - 02.2020
- Corona virus
Oral Surgery Assistant
PERFECT TEETH
03.2018 - 01.2019
- Opening/closing
- Assist oral surgeon
- Assist general dentist
- Assist periodontist
- Specialty assistant.
Oral Surgery Assistant
Pacific Dental Services
07.2015 - 12.2016
- Travel from office to office carrying equipment
- Set up and closing procedures daily; Tray Setups, procedure set ups; Implants; Bone Grafting, Expose & Bond, and Biopsies; sterilization; charging patient's out; production overview; sweeping and mopping operatories
- Going over order and inventory with the LDA of each office
- Liaison between the Oral Surgeon and the Office Manager and or Specialty Coordinator
- Screen, verify, prepare and monitor each patient before, during, and after surgery; Health History, X-rays, hooking patient's up to monitors and Oxygen; start IV's before sedation procedures and remove IV's after procedures
- Chairside assist the oral surgeon, Record IV drugs daily; during surgeries amount given to sedation patients and overall count for the day
- Establishing a daily goal, resolve and assess any issues throughout the day.
Team Lead RDA
Big Smiles
09.2014 - 07.2015
- Ensure and maintain adequate supply of inventory
- Ensure all paper or electronic records are properly completed and sent to corporate
- Liaison between corporate and schools
- Maintenance and sterilization of dental equipment and supplies
- Establish daily goal, identify, resolve, and assess issues
- Review team performance and outcomes
- Calculate daily production
- Chair side assistant, Coronal Polish, Digital X-rays, CDR Dicom for Windows
- Patient screening and verifying.
Dental Assistant
Thao Kim Pham DDS
08.2013 - 07.2015
- Expose and process film base x-ray
- Chairside assisting
- New patient screening
- Front Office duties; insurance verification, billing, and scheduling.
Dental Assistant
Thao Kim Pham DDS
05.2014 - 07.2014
- Six handed chairside assistance
- Maintain an asepsis environment throughout the day, sterilize instruments, stock, clean operatories
- Charting, take digital x-rays; Cone beam computed tomography (CBCT); Panoramic; escort patients to the operatories and checkout patients
- Set up trays and rooms for surgical procedures; sedated or non-sedated; for Implants; Bone Grafting; Platelet Rich Plasma; Expose & Bond, and Biopsies
- Remove IV's and monitor patients after sedated procedures in recovery room.
Education
Certification in Dental Assisting -
San Joaquin Valley College
Fresno, CA03.2014
Skills
- IV Therapy
- Dental Assisting
- Dentrix
- Eaglesoft
- Patient Observation
- Vital Signs Monitoring
- Infection Prevention
- Sterilization Techniques
- Blood Glucose Monitoring
- Adaptable
Certification
- Radiology
- HIPPA
- BLS/CPR
Additional Information
Well experienced with back office duties, proficient in Microsoft word/office, and Power Point; 45 WPM, 10 key by sight; knowledgeable with Dentrix Software and Eagle Software and dentrix. Fluent in Hmong, quick learner who works hard, has an open mind, can work independently or with the team, excellent communication and listening skills, and the availability to multi-task; friendly, enthusiastic, trustworthy and self motivated.
Assessments
Attention to detail, Proficient, 11/01/21, Identifying differences in materials, following instructions, and detecting details among distracting information
Personal Information
Title: Oral Surgery Assistant
Timeline
Patient Care Technician
American Regional Associates
12.2022 - 10.2023
Oral Surgery Assistant
Boulder oral surgery
08.2021 - 12.2022
Oral Surgery Assistant
Comfort Dental Oral Surgery
05.2020 - 08.2021
Production Worker
Vestas American Wind Technology
01.2019 - 02.2020
Oral Surgery Assistant
PERFECT TEETH
03.2018 - 01.2019
Oral Surgery Assistant
Pacific Dental Services
07.2015 - 12.2016
Team Lead RDA
Big Smiles
09.2014 - 07.2015
Dental Assistant
Thao Kim Pham DDS
05.2014 - 07.2014
Dental Assistant
Thao Kim Pham DDS
08.2013 - 07.2015
Certification in Dental Assisting -
San Joaquin Valley College
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