Organ Procurement Coordinator - Center for Donation and Transplant - Albany, NY
(2023-10)
- Evaluating patients for organ donation potential for either donation after circulatory death or donation after brain death.
- Chart document into iTransplant and Donor Net.
- Communicating with donor families and answering any questions or concerns they have regarding organ and/or tissue donation.
- Collecting and shipping out blood samples for serology and HLA testing.
- Having strong communication with doctors, nurses, and the administration on call regarding plans for the donor and testing needed.
- Communicating with local recovery surgeons and medical examiners on all consented cases.
- Allocating organs for donation and/or research.
- Coordinating all travel with surgeons and profusionists.
- Scheduling ORs and inputting all documentation on organ anatomy and all other paperwork during recovery.
- Doing all coordinating in the OR and completing all documents and organ anatomy with surgeons and coordinators through Donor Net.
Ocular Recovery Technician - Sight Society of Northeastern New York - Albany, NY
(2021-06 - 2023-09)
- Recovering eye tissue from authorized donors in morgues, funeral homes, and coroner's offices.
- Completing body exams and documenting donor information.
- Collecting blood samples from cadavers using either femoral or subclavian routs. Then centrifuging samples, and submitting them for tesing.
- Taking vitreous samples for autopsy cases.
- Taking photographs of the decedent for autopsy cases, and sending them to the medical examiner.
- Obtaining medical records of the donor, and completing data entry in the recovery system.
- Screening referrals of the recently deceased to determine eligibility for donation.
- Speaking with donor families/health care proxy about tissue donation, and collecting medical/social history of the decedent.
- Recording cell counts on the cornea, and evaluating tissue under a slit lamp.
- Offering and distributing eye tissue to ophthalmologists nationally and internationally.
Ocular Recovery Technician - Rocky Mountain Lions Eye Bank - Aurora, CO
(2020-06 - 2020-11)
- Preforming eye recovery on registered donors using insitu and enucleation.
- Completing a body exam and entering donor information in the database.
- Taking blood samples from the decedent and submitting them for testing.
- Taking vitreous samples for the coroner.
- Circulating for processors to cut tissue for surgery.
- Preforming lavages on corneas with heavy blood droplets.
- Preserving scleral tissue under a flow hood.
- Sterilizing processing tools.
- Talking with family members of donors to collect medical and social information on the decedent.
Optometric technician and patient coordinator - Eyecare Consultants - Centennial, CO
(2017-06 - 2021-06)
- Pretesting patients for comprehensive eye exams, cataract, PRK, and LASIK post-operative visits, contact lens checks, diagnostic testing for macular degeneration and glaucoma, ocular surface evaluations for dry eye testing, and medical office visits.
- Assisting and teaching patients for contacts lens insertion and removal appointments.
- Preparing EMR charts for Foxfire software.
- Ordering contact lenses for patients.
- Pulling insurance authorizations for comprehensive eye exams.
- Scheduling appointments, reminder calls for patients, preparing fee slips, filing paper charts, and checking in patients.
Optometric technician - Altitude Eye Care - Lone Tree, CO
(2018-10 - 2019-09)
- Pretesting for comprehensive eye exams, contact lens follow up visits, glasses checks, and medical office visits.
- Preparing EMR charts for Office Mate software.
- Assisting and teaching patients for contact lens insertion and removal appointments.
- Administrative duties such as pulling insurance authorizations and scheduling appointments.
Optometric technician - Highline Vision Center - Aurora, CO
(2017-01 - 2017-06)
- Pretesting patients for comprehensive eye exams, vision therapy checks, medical visits, refractions, specialty contact lens checks, interocular pressure checks, dry eye checks, and cataract, PRK, and LASIK post-operative visits.
- Scribing for optometrists.
- Preparing EMR Office Mate charts.
