Egle "Ellie" Bitinaite

- maintained patient flow and scheduling: set up appointments for patients, precharted, greeted them and brought them back into their rooms

- Measured vitals (regular and orthostatic blood pressures, pulse, blood oxygen, temperature, weight and height), administered vision acuity tests and captured retinal images through RetinaVue

- Performed procedures such running EKGs, administering breathing treatments, removing sutures from wounds, wound care, ear lavage, certain nasal swabs

- Administered injectables such as vaccines, PPD skin tests, Vitamin B12 shots, kenalog

- Prepared correct instruments: - set up PAP and anal scope trays, ultrasound machines, intraarticular injection trays, wound care trays

- Took care of supply inventory, stocked and sanitized rooms, calibrated point of care testing machines, sterilized instruments and maintained med fridge logs, labeled and transported lab samples

- Charted and maintained patient medical records

- Coordinated patient care by communicating with patients, nurse triage, insurance carriers, home health companies and other health departments via phone, Epic, and fax

- Finalized referrals, transmitted home health forms, routed refills, coordinated prior authorizations, appeals, and peer reviews

- Maintained excellent relationships with our patients by responding in a timely manner to matters within my scope (relaying non-sensitive results and doctors' notes, transferring to nurse triage when necessary, looking into prior authorizations, answering questions and helping schedule appointments etc.)

- Was assigned to train our new hire MA's

- 200 hour externship in a leading head and neck surgical private practice along with allergy and audiology clinic

- duties included answering phones, greeting and rooming patients, charting their histories and presenting to the surgeon

- administered intranasal numbing spray, provided doctor with requested instruments, observed in-clinic surgeries such as vocal cord injections and nasal turbinate reductions and sterilized instruments and scopes

- was asked to stay on permanently but chose to work in a broader specialty so I could gain more skills