MONICA TORRES
Adelanto, CA **301
**************@*****.***
CERTIFICATES
Medical Assistant Certificate
American Heart Association CPR Certification
WORK EXPERIENCE
Optum Care Medical Group, Mission Viejo - Urgent Care Medical Assistant
December 2017 – June 2024
●Ensure that HIPAA compliance is followed at all times.
●Performed tasks including vital signs, EKG’s, physical exams, vision exams.
●Collect specimens like urinalysis, pregnancy tests, throat cultures.
●Assisted multiple physicians in procedures like sutures and castings.
●Performed venipuncture for about 3 years, processed and packaged specimens so they can be sent out to the central lab.
●Performed Pulmonary function tests, ear lavages.
●Assisted physicians with wound care and bandaging.
●Patient data documentation in EPIC and NEXTGEN.
Mission Heritage Medical Group, Mission Viejo- Medical Assistant for Gastroenterology
June 2024- Present
●Medical assistant float
●Perform tasks like vital signs, EKG’s, physical exams.
●Referral submissions for colonoscopies and endoscopies.
●Complete prescription prior authorizations to patient insurance.
●Knowledge in basic tasks like appointment scheduling, scanning, transcribing medical records in Microsoft Word, and inventory management.
●Multiple years of experience in EPIC and NEXTGEN.
●Assist multiple physicians with colorectal bandings and Fecal Occult Blood Tests.
EDUCATION
Concorde Career College, Garden Grove- Medical Assistant Diploma January 2014- August 2014
Century High School Santa Ana, CA- High school diploma
June 15, 2013
ADMINISTRATIVE SKILLS
● EPIC & NEXTGEN knowledge
●Dermatology experience
●Podiatry Care Experience
●Wound Care Experience
●Appointment scheduling
●Customer service
●Document Scanning
●Telephone Receptionist
●Medical Records and HIPAA compliance
●Transcribing Medical Records (Microsoft Word)
●Prescription Authorization knowledge
●Patient Referral submissions
●Inventory Management
CLINICAL SKILLS:
●Vital Signs
●EKG’s
●Physical Therapy
●Pulmonary Function Test knowledge
●Ear Lavages
●Throat Cultures
●Wound Care and bandaging
●Oral and nasal specimen collection
●Venipuncture’s
●Processing specimens
●Sutures and castings
●Colorectal bandings
●Fecal Occult Blood Tests (FOBT)