Shamika Smith
Orange,NJ
Summary
Highly motivated and committed Medical Assistant with proven history of superior performance at individual, team and organizational levels. Multitasks and prioritizes workloads with little or no supervision. Detail-oriented professional looking to bring medical background and team-building skills to deadline-driven environment.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
Work History
Medical Assistant
New Jersey Pain Management
01.2023 - 01.2024
- Record patient history and personal information
- Measure vital signs
- Greet and check-in patients
- Collect patient information, collect payments, fulfill other customer service or administrative duties
- Perform general office duties, such as documentation preparation, scanning, mailing, and filing.
- Directed patients to exam rooms, fielded questions, and prepared for physician examinations
- Verified patient insurance coverage and collected required co-payments
- Ensured patient safety and comfort during examinations, effectively addressing concerns and answering questions.
- Sanitized, restocked, and organized exam rooms and medical equipment.
- Obtained client medical history, medication information, symptoms, and allergies.
- Assisted with routine checks and diagnostic testing by collecting and processing specimens.
- Called and faxed pharmacies to submit prescriptions and refills.
Shift supervisor
The Arc of Essex County
05.2016 - 09.2022
- Provided CPR daily, Vitals signs, Measure glucose levels.
- Maintain a safe, healthy, pleasant, homelike environment for each individual
- Provides training, supports, transportation, and assistance for each individual to enable her/him to complete daily routines in a safe, healthy, productive and dignified manner
- Encourages independence by providing both an opportunity and the appropriate levels of skill training
- Assists in the planning of the Individual Habilitation Plan (IHP)
- Administers medication, assists with medical appointments.
Access Associate/MRI Technician Assistant
Saint Barnabas Ambulatory Care Center
Livingston, NJ
05.2019 - 07.2022
- Secured over 100 patients accounts by obtaining appropriate demographics, insurance and medical information
- Scheduling, Billing and Insurance
- Check out patients upon completion
- Performs all duties in a manner in which promotes team concept and reflects Barnabas Health Philosophy.
- Collected and entered patient demographic and insurance data into computer database to establish patient's medical record
- Performed patient scheduling and registration functions to serve as initial contact point for medical office visits
- Supported the lead technician in the setup of coils, contrast injection devices, and other essential equipment for successful MRI examinations.
- Positioned patients to obtain quality MRI images.
- Triage of patients in an urgent/prompt care
- Prepared and administered contrast materials, radiopharmaceuticals, anesthetic, and antispasmodic drugs for imaging procedures.
Mail Carrier/PSE Clerk
United States postal service
01.2012 - 01.2016
- Responsibilities Making sure the proper recipient receives mail
- Unload mail sacks, separate letters, parcel posts, magazines and other types of mail and sort them into the proper processing areas where they are then delivered
- Sort mail by hand or by using electronic reading devices that read bar and zip codes on packages.
Education
Some College (No Degree) - Nursing
Essex County College
Newark, NJNursing
Americation Career And Training School
Newark 04.2024
High School Diploma -
Orange High School
Orange, NJ06.2010
Skills
- Phone Communication
- Well organization skills
- Values High work ethic
- Punctual, Reliable, and Responsible
- Capable of typing 60 wpm
- Microsoft office, Excel, Power-point
- Demonstrates interpersonal competencies such as problem-solving, negotiations, and communication
- Goal and Detail oriented
- Ability to organize workflow, function independently and manage own time and work task
- Several EHR systems, Epic, Athena
- Procedure Assistance
- Patient Scheduling
- Medical Terminology
- Medical Billing
- HIPAA Compliance
- First Aid
- CPR
- Vital Sign Monitoring
References
References available upon request
Timeline
Medical Assistant
New Jersey Pain Management
01.2023 - 01.2024
Access Associate/MRI Technician Assistant
Saint Barnabas Ambulatory Care Center
05.2019 - 07.2022
Shift supervisor
The Arc of Essex County
05.2016 - 09.2022
Mail Carrier/PSE Clerk
United States postal service
01.2012 - 01.2016
Some College (No Degree) - Nursing
Essex County College
Nursing
Americation Career And Training School
High School Diploma -
Orange High School
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