Carla Smith
Milwaukee,WI
Summary
Driven Certified Nursing Assistant with hands on experience in intensive care seeking to utilize background and training to take next career step with a respected organization. Strong patient care skills combined with the ability to clearly advocate patient needs. Demonstrated ability to foster meaningful relationships with patients and provide companionship to improve quality of life.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
CNA - Certified Nursing Assistant
Froedtert Health
04.2022 - 10.2024
- Answering calls from patients and making sure they're as comfortable as possible
- Checking and monitoring patients' vital signs
- Cleaning medical supplies and equipment
- Communicating patients' questions and concerns to nurses
- Assist in dressing, bathing, and grooming patients
- Ensuring that safety protocols and procedures are carried out properly
- Following patient privacy rules and applying professional ethics
- Gathering and stocking various medical supplies
- Helping to ensure that patients' nutritional and hydration needs are met
- Keeping patients clean and attending to patient hygiene
- Moving and transporting patients, such as helping patients get in and out of beds or wheelchairs
Certified Nursing Assistant
St. Camillus
04.2018 - 11.2019
- Fostered relationships with patients, caregivers and healthcare teams to achieve individual care plan targets
- Observed and documented patient responses
- Massaged patients and applied preparations and treatments, such as liniment, alcohol rubs and heatlamp stimulation
- Created and maintained safe living environment for patients, and helped facilitate activities of daily living (ADL)
- Identified and advocated patient care needs, and helped to determine best approach to care
Certified Nursing Assistant
Clement Manor Inc
06.2016 - 03.2018
- Provide personal care for patients, including taking vital signs, monitor I&O, administering routine respiratory treatments and completing patient needs assessments
- Implemented and enforced policies and procedures
- Created and maintained a safe patient and working environment
- Supported duties for diagnostic and technical treatment procedures, such as setting up and operating special medical equipment and apparatus
- Assisted patients with mobility and ambulation throughout facility
Elderly Caregiver
Creative Care
04.2015 - 06.2016
- Worked to improve patient outlook and daily living through compassionate care
- Assisted disabled individuals to foster independence while still closely monitoring safety at all times
- Completed daily rounds of nursing department to verify that all nursing service personnel were performing work assignments in accordance with acceptable nursing standards
- Established and maintained positive relationships with government regulators, residents, families, other area health care providers, physicians and community at large
Education
High School Diploma -
Riverside University High School
Milwaukee, WI01.2010
Skills
- CHARTING
- INFECTION CONTROL
- DETAIL-ORIENTED
- PROBLEM SOLVER
- Childcare
- Caregiving
- Meal Preparation
- Vital Signs
- Hospice Care
- Patient Care
- Data collection
- Cash handling
- Medical receptionist
- Front desk
- Customer service
- Typing
- Telemarketing
- Medication Administration
- Nursing
- Communication skills
- Senior care
- Care plans
- Hospital
Certification
- First Aid, 09/01/16, Present
- CPR Certification, 03/01/15, Present
- State Tested Nursing Assistant
Personal Information
- Authorized To Work: US
- Title: Cna
Timeline
CNA - Certified Nursing Assistant
Froedtert Health
04.2022 - 10.2024
Certified Nursing Assistant
St. Camillus
04.2018 - 11.2019
Certified Nursing Assistant
Clement Manor Inc
06.2016 - 03.2018
Elderly Caregiver
Creative Care
04.2015 - 06.2016
High School Diploma -
Riverside University High School
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