Bandu V Johnson
New York
Summary
To provide patient care in a healthcare related facility where there is an opportunity for growth and career advancement.
Certified Nursing Assistant with experience serving chronically ill patients, including assisting with daily living activities and household tasks. Patient and highly compassionate. Skilled at operating within long-term care environments or outpatient centers.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
Work History
C.N.A
The Hebrew Home at Riverdale
The Bronx
01.2013 - Current
- Communicated with patients to determine feelings, need for assistance or social and emotional support.
- Fostered relationships with patients, caregivers and healthcare teams to achieve individual care plan targets.
- Assisted patients with daily living activities, including bathing, dressing, and grooming.
- Facilitated communication between patients, family members, and healthcare professionals.
- Helped residents walk with or without self-help devices.
- Supported daily living activities by serving meals, feeding, ambulating and turning over and positioning patients.
- Monitored food intake and output as directed by nursing staff.
- Assisted residents with bathing and dressing to promote personal hygiene.
- Assisted with lifting patients to move on or off beds, examination tables and surgical tables.
- Performed vital sign assessments, such as taking blood pressure and temperature.
C.N.A
Elderserve
Bronx
01.2012 - 01.2013
- Delivered patient care duties under the supervision of a licensed nurse and assisted in maintaining a positive environment for the patients and residents
- Assessed and provided nursing care to the residents to ensure that the highest degree of quality care is maintained at all times
- Provided residents with daily restorative nursing care and services in accordance with the resident’s assessment, care plan and as directed by supervisors
- Ensured that each resident’s needs are met and exceeded while maintaining the highest degree of dignity
- Worked under direction and supervision of the Head Nurse
- Handled uncooperative patients to take vitals, feed, groom, collect specimens and so forth
- Make beds and maintain patients’ rooms, inventory of supplies, sterilized equipment etc
C.N.A Intern
St Vincent De Paul Nursing Home
Bronx
01.2009
- Administer medications and treatments, such as catheterizations, suppositories, irrigations, enemas, massages, and douches, as directed by a physician or nurse
- Answer patients' call signals
- Bathe, groom, shave, dress, and/or drape patients to prepare them for surgery, treatment, or examination
- Clean rooms and change linens
- Feed patients who are unable to feed themselves
- Prepare, serve, and collect food trays
- Provide patient care by supplying and emptying bed pans, applying dressings and supervising exercise routines
- Provide patients with help walking, exercising, and moving in and out of bed
- Transport patients to treatment units, using a wheelchair or stretcher
- Turn and re-position bedridden patients, alone or with assistance, to prevent bedsores
- Work as part of a medical team that examines and treats clinic outpatients
- Answer phones and direct visitors
- Collect specimens such as urine, feces, or sputum
Education
High School Diploma -
New YorkEKG Technician, Nursing Assistant, phlebotomist
HOSTOS COMMUNITY COLLEGE
New YorkSkills
- Vital sign assessment
- Medication administration
- Hygiene assistance
- Recording vital signs
- Assisting with personal grooming
- Intake recording
- Collecting vital signs
- Oral hygiene
- Patient care technician/assistant
- Wound care
- Teamwork
- Bathing assistance
Timeline
C.N.A
The Hebrew Home at Riverdale
01.2013 - Current
C.N.A
Elderserve
01.2012 - 01.2013
C.N.A Intern
St Vincent De Paul Nursing Home
01.2009
High School Diploma -
EKG Technician, Nursing Assistant, phlebotomist
HOSTOS COMMUNITY COLLEGE