Candace M Mills

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Objective:

I’m a Registered Phlebotomy Technician/ Medical Laboratory Technician Certified Patient Care Technician/Telemetry Technician looking to obtain a position that will let me utilize my skills and learn more than I grow with your facility. Qualifications:

I have 24 years’ experience as a Phlebotomist/ Telemetry Technician as well as 18 weeks experience as a Medical Laboratory Technician graduating April 16, 2010 with Associate Degree of Applied Science. I have been fully trained on these instruments: Coulter ACT Diff 2, Clinitek Status Abbott, Clinitek 100 Abbott-urinalysis, DCA 2000+, Hi Chem mini - ves- Sedrate, Cell Dyn 3700 Abbott-cell blood counter, Systmex CA500-coagulation, Architech C8000 Abbott-chemistry, Axsym Abbott-special chemistry, Istat POCT Abbott-BNP & CK-MB, Sure Vue fisher-waive testing: HCG, RSV, & Flu A&B, MedTox profile II,IIA, & Verdict- drug screen kit, BinaxNOW POCT-Strep A, IHP-402 POCT-H. Pylori, Performing manual Blood Banking Type and cross-matches, 5 year’s experience in performing microbiology setup procedures on all high quality specimens and all other specimens, including cytospin gram stains, KOH, some AFB, and some RNA prep, streaking of all media plates, anaerobic and aerobic conditions, blood culture BACT Alert instrument and blood collection procedures, performing C-diff preparations, ATTEST and Spore stripe preparations and procedures, environmental preparation of waters from dialysis machines, water test from lab, and endotoxin (fungal), fully trained in all cultures: urines, stool, wound/abscess/body fluids, respiratory specimens, cath tip, and AFB. Monitored patients on telemetry, measured all telemetry strips and gave to nurses, Accounted for all equipment, and made sure all patients were safe on telemetry, Performed any and all Patient Care Tech duties.

Education:

1990 College of DuPage Certified Recreational Arts and Special Populations ( Graduated: 06/10/1990) 1991 William Rainey Harper College Certified Nursing Assistant (Passed Exam 01/17/1992) 1994 Arizona Board of Nursing Licensed Nursing Assistant (08/30/1994) 1997 University Medical Center Certified Patient Care Technician/ Monitor Tech/ Phlebotomist Tech (09/25/97) 2010 Apollo College Associate Degree of Applied Science-Medical Lab Technician 2022 National CPR Foundation BLS/ CPR Certified (Accordance with the 2015 ECC/ILCOR and AHA 2001 American Medical Technologist Exam Registered-Phlebotomy Technician Employment :

05/31/2022 to Present

Arizona Liver Health/Arizona Clinical Trials

RESEARCH PHLEBOTOMIST/ MEDICAL ASSISTANT/ COVID MEDICAL ASSISTANT 2201 W Fairview St, Suite 9 Chandler, AZ 85224

15396 N 83 rd Ave, Bldg E Peoria, AZ 85381

1601 N. Swan Road Tucson, AZ 85712 .

2152 S. Vineyard, Bldg. 8, Suite 123 Mesa, AZ 85210 07/28/2021 - 05/25/2022

Cornerstone Hospital

MONITOR TECHNICIAN :

Duties: Monitor patient heart rhythms, measure all strips, report any changes or bad rhythms to the nurse, account for any and all equipment are counted for and present, and make sure every strip is signed, labeled and checked off. 12/23/2019 – 07/16/2021

Santa Cruz Valley Regional Hospital

MONITOR TECHNICIAN

Duties: Monitor patient heart rhythms, measure all strips, report any changes or bad rhythms to the nurse, account for any and all equipment are counted for and present, and make sure every strip is signed, labeled, and checked off. 10/06/2019 – 12/10/2019 Shepherd Security Services UNARMED SECURITY GUARD

Duties: Stop loss prevention at local mini mart, Circle Ks, pepper spray and or arrest all individuals that steal from store, contact local Police to have them removed and or arrested off the property, and keep partner, store staff, and all customers safe.

08/10/2018 – 10/09/2018 Santa of Tucson (name changed to Sapphire) CONCIERGE

Duties: Answer phones, take new clients on tours of the facility, and make admission packets. 11/10/2018 – 09/19/2019 My House Healthcare Services CAREGIVER

Duties: Help all clients with personal hygiene, house cleaning, assisting client to and from Doctor appointments, and taking client to grocery store if needed.

03/7/2018 – Present Eyeglass World

OPTOMETRIC TECHNICIAN

Duties: Assisting the Eye Doctor with scheduling all appointments for patients, completing all needed paperwork into the NVI system for each patient, Creating a paper chart with the completed paperwork, perform all pretesting needed for the eye doctor to perform the complete eye exam so patient can get their new eyeglasses, assist with ordering contact lenses and then dispensing them when they come in to the correct patient, Answering phones with professional and courteous manner, and assisting my fellow co workers with helping dispense glasses that patients are to pick up. Teaching patients how to put in and remove contact lenses for first time wears. 01/16/2018 – Present BrookLine College

PATIENT CARE TECHNICIAN INSTRUCTOR

Duties: Teaching new students the career requirements and materials to perform PCT job duties, Phlebotomy job duties, and how to monitor and detect telemetry rhythms and how to perform EKG s on patients. Training hands on techniques with range of motion, transferring patients, performing vital signs, entering correct intake and output for patients, being professional and courteous, bed making, glucose monitoring, and how to catheterize patients being with straight cath or indwelling. Training students on bathing patients.

8/11/2017 – 12/18/2018 Brookdale Home Health (May 2018 office closed) SCHEDULER/DOCUMENT TRACKER

Duties: Scheduling all clients with clinicians for services, answer all in coming phone calls, keep track of all discharged client's charts, scanning in all Dr orders, face-to faces, and all needed documents to meet Medicare guidelines, making sure all clients are treated like family when it comes to customer service, and fax off orders to be reviewed and then signed by Doctor. 11/28/2010 – 08/7/2017 Banner University of Arizona Medical Center PCT/TELE TECH

Duties: Taking care of all daily activities of living, vital signs, intake and output, electronic charting in computer, dressing changes, EKG’s, one on one with fall precaution, ETOH withdrawals, and suicide patients, and telemetry monitoring of patients on telemetry. Making sure all patients on telemetry are closely watched and monitored. 01/01/2008-04/07/2010 Advisa Care

PCT/TELE TECH/BHT

Duties: Taking care of all patients daily activities of living, vital signs, intake and output, electronic charting in computer MEDITECH, dressing changes, EKG’s, monitoring patient’s heart rhythms, blood draws, one on one with fall precaution or ETOH withdrawals, and suicides, going to different facilities if needed. 07/2007-04/2008 Northwest Medical Center Oro Valley Hospital Lead Lab Asst/Lab Asst II

Duties: I was hired as the Lead Lab Asst. Performed waived tests: HCG, Mono, Strep A&B, Flu swabs, and any documentation of all QCs that were run. I also handled a lot of specialized tests that had to go to other labs, we called these send outs. From time to time I would help my manager with interviewing new applicants, helping arrange the schedule, and keeping their check off lists up to date per training. In-charge of microbiology department and out-patient lab specimens. 11/2006-06/2007 Lab Corporation of America

Float Phlebotomist

Duties: I would float from site to site depending on staffing shortages, drawing blood from outpatients, performing drug screens for pre-employment and State/Federal employments, would enter all patients’ Dr’s orders, and would float to the contracted skilled nursing facilities as well.

02/16/2002 – 11/28/2006 Southern Arizona Veterans Acute Health Care Services HEALTH TECHNICIAN

Duties: Drawing blood on inpatients and out patients, using butterflies, vacutainers, and syringes, blood culture collection samples, blood banking samples, and handling to accessioning all items such as: urine, blood, stool, CSF fluids, and sputum. Centrifuged then distributed to the different areas of the lab for testing and resulting. Also helped out in set up for microbiology department so specimens weren’t compromised. 06/25/2001 – 11/23/2001 Sonora Quest Laboratory

SENIOR FLOAT PHLEBOTOMIST

Duties: Drawing blood on all out patients at the different sites that I was floated to, entering all doctor’s orders for lab draws and entering any and all insurances, processing and spinning of all blood samples, and making sure all are handled with special care. Performed PKUs, and DNA swabs for court ordered testing, and State and Federal drug screens.

11/15/1998 – 06/02/2001 University Medical Center

PCT/ TELE TECH/ UNIT CLERK

Duties: Helping with all daily activities of living with each patient, vital signs, inserting foleys, performed 12 lead EKGs, lab draws as ordered, entering all my computer charting in Meditech, performed unit clerk duties, trained new employees, watched patients on the telemetry monitors, measured all tele strips, trained on all the different heart devices we had on our unit; AM BIO MED, Cardiowest, Novacord, Thoratech, and Lion Heart. References upon request