Benjamin Cancio
Sacramento,CA
Summary
Compassionate healthcare professional with a focus on patient care, highly productive in fast-paced environments and proficient at completing tasks efficiently. Specialized skills include vital signs monitoring, patient hygiene assistance, and medication administration. Excel in communication, empathy, and teamwork, ensuring optimal patient comfort and support.
Overview
3
3
years of professional experience
Work History
Medication Technician/Caregiver
Ivy Park of Sacramento
Sacramento, CA
02.2024 - 12.2024
- Administering medication and first aid treatment to clients as ordered by physicians while maintaining accountability for accurate narcotics at the end of each shift.
- Encouraged creative thinking, problem-solving, and empowerment as part of the community management group to improve team morale and teamwork.
- Communicate well with doctors, home health nurses, hospice nurses, and patients' families, ensuring continuity of patient care.
- Providing proper bedside manners to residents who have cognitive or memory loss.
- Effectively address rapid response situations by strategically organizing tasks.
- Provided activities of daily living (ADLs) to patients with dementia.
- Ordered medication and supplies and organized the medication cart.
Cook
Ivy Park of Sacramento
Sacramento, CA
04.2022 - 12.2023
- Ensured that a scheduled meal plan, created by the Lead Cook, was completed efficiently and on time.
- Responsible for compiling and fulfilling different varieties of residents' and patients' dietary and nutritional requirements.
- Knowledgeable about maintaining a sanitary environment that correlates with food and safety regulations.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Health Science
Sacramento State
6000 Jed Smith Dr, Sacramento, CA 9581906-2026
High School Diploma -
Rosemont High School
9594 Kiefer Blvd, Sacramento, CA 9582706-2022
Skills
- Maintained accountability for an accurate narcotic count after each shift
- Administer medications and first aid treatment as ordered by a physician
- Vital signs monitoring
- Medication administration
- Collaborated with doctors, nurses, hospice staff, home health patients, occupational therapists, and speech therapists while maintaining privacy and confidentiality
- Team player
- PointClickCare Software Competency
- Highly organized EMR documentation
- CPR certified
- Teamwork, dependability
- Good communication skills
- Detail-oriented
- Highly organized with excellent time management skills
- Critical Thinking and Problem-Solving Skills
- Encouraged creative thinking, problem-solving, and empowerment as part of the community management group to improve team morale and teamwork
- Trainer/Coach for incoming medical technicians
- Work with patients diagnosed with dementia, DM, COPD, asthma, CHF, and CVA, and provide the best plan of care
- Effectively respond to emergencies: EMS, 9-1-1, and notifying the PCP and Responsible Party
- Escorting patients to scheduled medical appointments
Accomplishments
- Middle Class Scholarship-2023 Scholarship was awarded due to high educational excellence and maintaining above a GPA of 3.0
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
Medication Technician/Caregiver
Ivy Park of Sacramento
02.2024 - 12.2024
Cook
Ivy Park of Sacramento
04.2022 - 12.2023
Bachelor of Science - Health Science
Sacramento State
High School Diploma -
Rosemont High School
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