Connie Garland
**** **** **** ****** ********, NY 11234
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Summary:
• Professional and Certified Phlebotomist/ Laboratory Medical Assistant and Hemodialysis Technician with 12 years’ experience in high volume Hospitals and Clinics.
• Experienced Medical Assistant/Phlebotomist with effective, motivated, strong knowledgeable of clinical and laboratory experience.
• Offer strong dedication to informed patient care, administrative excellence and confidentiality and compassion
• Caring and supportive Clinician committed to providing high quality services to patients.
• Highly Organized and dependable, successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude, willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals.
• Hard working and reliable.
• Team-oriented
Education:
Dialysis 4 Careers Technician Training School Hempstead, NY 08/21 – 11/21 School of Hemodialysis
Dialysis Technician
Kingsborough Community College Brooklyn, NY 09/07 – 06/10 Liberal Arts / Nursing
Allen School, Inc. Brooklyn, NY 02/03 - 11/03
Medical Assistant certificate Obtained
Work Experience:
Maimonides Medical Center Brooklyn, NY 03/22 – 05/22 Laboratory Medical Assistant Cardiology Department
• Vital signs, EKG’s and imputed patients’ information in the Epic computer system.
• Made appointment, administer Heart monitors for patients.
• Answer phones and addresses patient questions and concern
• Assisted Doctor and Nurse Practitioners with patients in the Procedure room.
• Skilled with the management of difficult patient scenarios
• Performed appointment scheduling and insurance verifications
• Data entry, filing, faxing and laboratory follow-up. Green Key Resources Bronx, NY 04/20 - 08/20
Contract Temp / Laboratory/Phlebotomist
• Responsible for taking blood samples from patients testing for the Covit-19 Antigen and and Virus.
• Obtain vital signs. which included.
• Prepared treatment rooms for patient examinations, keeping the rooms neat and clean.
• Collected blood, tissue, or other laboratory specimens, logging the specimens, and preparing them for testing. Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center New York, NY 6/11 – 11/18 Laboratory/ Phlebotomist
• Responsible for taking blood from patients and properly labeling samples with the patient’s information and lab orders from the doctor to properly prepare patients for the chemo-therapy sessions.
• Collects blood specimens using correct venipuncture technique as ordered by physicians for various laboratory analyses.
• Decipher the best method for drawing blood depending on the specific patient.
• Explaining blood-drawing procedures to patients and answering questions.
• Obtain and accurately document vital signs.
• Evaluating patients’ ability to withstand procedure.
• Prepare blood, urine and other specimens for testing. Access Nursing New York, NY 1/11 - 6/11
Temp/ Clinical Laboratory Assistant/ Phlebotomies
• Collects blood specimens using correct venipuncture or finger technique as ordered by physicians for various laboratory analyses.
• Performed routine laboratory tests and sample analyses.
• Obtains and accurately documents vital signs.
• Verify identity.
• Maintain and clean medical equipment such as needles, test tubes, and blood vials. Ortho. Associates New York, NY 02/07 - 04/07
Laboratory Medical Assistant
• Assisted Doctor with examination, assist patients with lab results, triage patients, Patient charting, data entry, faxing, filing.
• Match laboratory request forms to specimen tubes and enter patents, specimen and insurance information into billing systems.
Select Physicians, P.C. New Hyde Park, NY 01/06 - 1/07 Laboratory Medical assistant
• Assisted Doctor with patients in the exam room, Triage patients, performed EKG's,
• Urinalysis, Pregnancy testing, Patient charting, data entry, faxing, filing, answering phones.
• Assisted with phlebotomy, EKG's, Hematology lab testing, Urinalysis, Pregnancy Testing, Pediatric insurance verification, referrals and appointment scheduling.