SUMMARY:

Seeking a position in that values individual skills and affords opportunity for educational and growth to accomplish organizational missions.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Washington, DC

Dialysis Technician/PCT

Responsibilities:

• Assist other health care members in providing patient specific detailed education regarding measures where appropriate
• Evaluate vascular access for patency and report any unusual findings to nurse supervisor
• Obtain necessary pre and post treatment vital signs and weight
• Perform administration of Heparin as delegated or as allowed by state law
• Discontinue dialysis treatment according to established procedures
• Responsible for ensuring appropriate safety alarms are enabled, including Narrow Venous Limits
• Initiate dialysis treatment according to prescribed orders including blood flow (QB) and dialysate flow (QD)
• Obtain Hemostasis and apply appropriate dressings
• Monitor patients’ response to dialysis therapy and report any unusual findings to nurse supervisor
• Record accurate and timely information regarding vital signs and treatment onto the Hemodialysis Treatment Sheet with initial identification
• Clean and disinfect dialysis machine surface, chair, equipment, and surrounding area between treatments according to facility policy
• Perform all required pretreatment for dialysis treatment including Pressure Holding ((PHT)
• Prepare lab requisitions for prescribed or stat Lab specimens according to laboratory destination
• Collect, label, appropriately prepare and store lab samples according required laboratory specimens
• Perform additional duties as assigned

Confidential, Arlington, VA

Hostess/Expo

Responsibilities:

• Greeting and seating guest in a timely manner
• Traying up food to send out to the tables
• Preparing carryout orders
• Assisting the cooks at various stations
• Making sure the food is presented and prepared properly for the guest
• Assisting with other duties around the store

Confidential, Baltimore, MD

Care Associate

Responsibilities:

• Provides for activities of daily living by assisting with serving meals, feeding patients as necessary
• Provides patients’ personal hygiene by giving bedpans, urinals, baths and showers, backrubs, shampoos, and shaves
• Record patients intake/output
• Maintains patient stability by checking vital signs and weight
• Documents actions by completing forms, reports, logs, and records
• Maintains work operations by following policies and procedures
• Provides patient comfort by utilizing resources and materials
• Answering call lights
• Reporting observations of the patient to nurse/charge nurse

Confidential, Columbia, MD

Administrative Assistant

Responsibilities:

• Answer phones, screen calls, take and deliver messages and place calls as directed or necessary
• Filing, typing and other clerical duties as directed by Facility Administrator and other management staff
• Complete change requisitions and treatments’ logs
• Verify patient insurance, obtain authorizations, forward copies of forms to corporate
• Maintain accurate accounting of all stock items kept in the facility to include dialysis, re - use and office supplies
• Arrange transportation as needed and assist with physician appointments for patient
• Accurately maintain and update CIS, Report cards, and other reports
• Gather data for QA/CQI and ensure completeness
• Attend educational activities, in-services, and staff meetings as required
• Other duties as assigned

Confidential, Towson, MD

Certified Nursing Assistant

Responsibilities:

• Going to varies hospitals (such as Saint Agnes and Kernan Hospital)
• Responsible for the collection of vital sign data and reporting abnormal results
• Assisting patients with activities of daily living
• Serves and feeds patients
• Observes patients in order to ensure safety of patient
• Makes patients’ bed
• Transfers patients to chair, wheelchair, stretcher, and bedside commode
• Assists patients with ambulation
• Empties bedpans, urinals, and Foleys
• Records intake and output

Confidential, Baltimore, MD

Unit Secretary

Responsibilities:

• Transcribe orders and notify appropriate nurse in a timely manner
• Answers and make telephone calls
• Complies and maintains unit statistics regarding admissions, discharges and transfers per unit standard
• Orders and maintains inventory of office supplies
• Greets and orient patients, family, and significant others to the patient care unit and the patient room
• Performs clerical duties to maintain the patient’s medical record and to expedite patient admission, transfer and discharge
• Assembles and copies charts and forms, assuring that’s charts contain necessary forms
• Schedules patient appointments at outside agencies and coordinates transportation arrangements when necessary
• Performs others duties as assigned

Confidential, Baltimore, MD

Unit Secretary

Responsibilities:

• Transcribe orders and notify appropriate nurse in a timely manner
• Answers and make telephone calls
• Complies and maintains unit statistics regarding admissions, discharges and transfers per unit standard
• Responds to questions from patient, families, and significant others in a prompt, courteous, positive and knowledgeable manner and refers to appropriate personnel
• Reports unit equipment that is malfunctioning or defective to appropriate personnel

Confidential, Baltimore, MD

Certified Nursing Assistant

Responsibilities:

• Assist client with activities of daily living
• Assist with tube feeding
• Making occupied bed
• Assist with transfer (from bed to chair or chair to bed)
• Range of Motion exercises

Confidential, Towson, MD

Medical Receptionist

Responsibilities:

• Calling in prescriptions/refills
• Scheduling appointments
• Filing
• Verifying insurance coverage
• Answering telephones
• Obtaining approval for different types of procedures
• Collecting copays 
• Faxing
• Scheduling business meetings for the doctor
• Pulling charts
• Checking patients in & out
• Knowledge of using EMR
• Posting for various procedures