Patient Care Technician

• Mar 2019 - Present

Home Health Aide

• Oct 2018 - Mar 2019

Assist patients with daily activities including bathing, grooming and exercising. Contribute to work flow optimization to achieve patient care objectives and organizational goals. Provides personal nursing care in pre- and post-operative situations. Fosters relationships with patients, caregivers and healthcare teams to achieve individual care plan targets. Create and maintains safe living environment for patients, and helps facilitate activities of daily living (ADL). Turns and re-position bedridden patients. Assesses patients, documents and monitors vital signs, and communicates changes to supervising RNs. Facilitates activities of daily living, including personal hygiene management, feeding, ambulation and locomotion. Identifies and advocates patient care needs, and helped to determine best approach to care. Tends to patients with chronic illnesses. Monitors and records patient vital signs, including recording daily inputs and outputs. Implement and enforces policies and procedures.

Certified Nursing Assistant

• Apr 2018 - Mar 2019

Assists elderly clients with personal hygiene and other daily activities, including bathing, dressing and incontinence care. Maintains a clean and well-organized environment to promote client happiness and safety. Monitors clients' progress to report necessary changes. Administers all necessary medications as directed by care plan. Delivers a high level of assistance in general household duties, which included cooking, meal prep and food shopping. Assists disabled individuals to foster independence while still closely monitoring safety. Tests patients' blood glucose levels. Maintains patient privacy and confidential patient information. Monitors patients with acute conditions.

Patient Care Technician

• May 2011 - Nov 2017

Assisted doctors, nurses and support staff with preparation for and conducting patient procedures. Improved patient care, safety and compliance by partnering with nurses. Provided excellent customer service by effectively communicating with patients, families, staff and staff in other hospital departments. Aided patients with mobility and activities of daily living. Provided quality nursing care in accordance with resident care policies and procedures. Provided treatment within scope of practice as defined by state law. Made appropriate interventions by reading and interpreting fetal heart monitors. Observed strict confidentiality and safeguarded all patient-related information. Assigned staff to meet patient care needs and address productivity standards, while adjusting for census, skill mix and sick calls. Performed all tasks with a patient-centered focus while seeking opportunities for improvement of processes and treatments. Charted resident responses, progress to approaches used and reported abnormal signs and symptoms to medical care professionals on staff. Tested glucose and administered injections. Supported nurses in daily patient care activities by taking vital signs, documenting patient observations.