Medical Assistant Home Health

EDWINA ELLISON

** ****** ***** ***** *******, GA 30318

678-***-****

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PROFILE

Seeking a Medical Assistant position to provide support of daily operational functions and high quality professional

healthcare to patients.

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

Sanford Brown College, Atlanta, GA, 12/2013 – 12/2014

Medical Assistant Certificate Program

Completed an intensive 900 hour program comprised of theoretical and practical applications of essential Medical

Assisting skills which included the following:

• Administrative Skills – Medical Office Procedures, Health Insurance Claims Processing, etc.

• Clinical Skills – Taking Vital Signs, assisting in Physical Examinations, Biomedical Waste Disposal,

Electrocardiography, Clinical Asepsis and CPR.

• Laboratory Skills – Phlebotomy (Finger Sticks and Venipuncture’s), Smear Procedures, Urinalysis, and

Specimen Collection

• Medical Terminology, Anatomy and Physiology, and Pharmacology.

CLINICAL EXPERIENCE

Greater Atlanta Women’s Healthcare 12/2014 01/2015

Atlanta, GA

• Interview patients to obtain medical information and measure their vital signs, weight, and height.

• Show patients to examination rooms and prepare them for the physician.

• Record patients' medical history, vital statistics and information such as test results in medical records.

• Prepare and administer medications as directed by a physician.

• Collect blood, tissue or other laboratory specimens, log the specimens, and prepare them for testing.

• Perform general office duties such as answering telephones, taking dictation or completing insurance forms.

• Dictation notes to referring MD's

Easy Living Home Health Service 04/2012 10/2014

Alpharetta, GA

• Assists patients by providing personal services, such bathing, dressing and grooming

• Help family member care for the patient by teaching appropriate ways to lift, turn, and re position the

patient ;advising on nutrition, cleanliness, and housekeeping

• Protects the home care agency by adhering to professional standards, home care policies and procedure,

federal, state, and local requirements

CLINICAL EXPERIENCE

Home Health Nurse 07/1999 03/2012

Spear Family

Atlanta

• Check patients' pulse, temperature and respiration

• Maintain records of patient care, condition, progress, and problems in order to report and discuss

observations with a supervisor or case manager

• Provide patients with help moving in and out of beds, baths, wheelchairs or automobiles, and with dressing

and grooming

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