Aaliyah Garrett

• Helped patients maintain healthy skin by checking wounds, assessing integrity, and bathing bedbound individuals.
• Respond to patient emergencies with immediate care and notified clinicians to provide comprehensive assistance.
• Maximized patient satisfaction by helping individuals carry out personal tasks such as bathing, dressing and walking.
• Obtained patient vital signs and reported results to staff nurse or physician, noting changes from prior measurements along with weight and intake and output.
• Assist with answering patient assistance calls, assessed needs, and offered qualified support.
• Assisted in transferring patients, beds and patient care equipment to other rooms adhering to necessary safety precautions.
• Support other team members with needs on the floor.

> Medsurg ( May 2024)

> ED ( June 2024)

> Women Services (L&D, NICU, Mom and Baby) ( July 2024)

> ICU (MICU, SICU, CVICU)( Sept 2024- Current)

• Worked alongside experienced nursing professionals to learn new procedures.
• Assisted patients with personal hygiene requirements and monitored conditions to update nursing staff.
• Attended medical procedures to increase nursing expertise and advance training.
• Administered medications via oral, IV, and intramuscular injections and monitored responses.
• Performed regular rounds to check on well-being of patients. Conducted ongoing monitoring and evaluations of behaviors and conditions, and updated clinical supervisors with current information.
• Communicated with healthcare team members to plan, implement and enhance treatment strategies.
• Documented treatments delivered, medications and IVs administered, discharge instructions, and follow-up care.
• Used first-hand knowledge and clinical expertise to advocate for patients under care and enacted prescribed treatment strategies.
• Followed all personal and health data procedures to effectively comply with HIPAA laws and prevent information breaches.
• Assist doctor with delivering babies.
• Advised patients and caregivers of proper wound management, discharge plan objectives, safe medication use, and disease management.
• Handled specimen collection/ Blood cultures and prepared for transport to facilitate laboratory testing.

• Completed daily assessments and documented information in electronic medical records.
• Provided skilled, timely and level-headed emergency response to critically-ill patients.
• Led teams in driving successful patient outcomes by prioritizing standard of care and best practices.
• Helped team manage patient flow by promoting timely placements for admissions, discharges and transfers.
• Rounded hourly for optimal patient care outcomes using AIDET technique.
• Conducted continuous cardiac monitoring on patients stepping down from ICU care.
• Contributed educational and clinical expertise to help optimize training courses and boost student learning.
• Trained all new hires and monitored growth.
• Able to place foley catheter, clean tracheotomy, place purewicks/ condom catheter and more.
• Being about to properly take care 24 plus patient on my own.