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Carolyne Muteti

Salem

Summary

Dedicated Certified Nursing Assistant with extensive experience at Royalty Family Home, excelling in patient care and vital sign monitoring. Proven ability to enhance resident well-being through compassionate support and effective collaboration with healthcare teams. Strong organizational skills and a commitment to maintaining high standards of personal hygiene assistance ensure optimal patient outcomes.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Certified Nursing Assistant

Royalty Family Home
Keizer
12.2022 - Current
  • Assisted residents with daily living activities and personal hygiene.
  • Monitored vital signs and reported changes to nursing staff promptly.
  • Documented patient care in compliance with health regulations and standards.
  • Collaborated with healthcare team to develop individual care plans.
  • Provided emotional support and companionship to enhance resident well-being.
  • Maintained cleanliness and safety of resident living environments consistently.
  • Answered call lights promptly and responded to patient needs accordingly.
  • Assisted patients with activities of daily living such as bathing, grooming, and dressing.
  • Monitored vital signs including blood pressure, pulse rate, respiration rate.
  • Observed and reported unusual symptoms and changes to charge nurse.
  • Served meals to patients in their rooms and assisted with feeding when needed.
  • Assisted patients with shaving, bathing, and oral hygiene to promote healthy habits and overall wellness.
  • Turned and repositioned residents using proper body mechanics to prevent pressure ulcers.
  • Facilitated activities of daily living, personal hygiene management, feeding and ambulation.
  • Assisted with ambulation of patients utilizing appropriate equipment safely.
  • Performed housekeeping duties such as changing linens and cleaning bathrooms when necessary.
  • Cleaned and sanitized patient rooms according to established protocols.
  • Supported non-ambulatory residents in range of motion exercises.

Mental Health Technician Therapy

Oregon State Hospital
Salem
04.2022 - 12.2022
  • Conducted thorough physical checks and monitored patients for unusual behaviors, reporting findings to professional staff.
  • Recorded vital signs, eating habits, behavior, progress notes, treatments, and discharge plans.
  • Enforced patient restrictions to designated areas to ensure safety.
  • Collaborated with multidisciplinary teams including psychiatrists, psychologists, and nurses.
  • Assisted patients with bathing, dressing, and grooming, demonstrating proper techniques as needed.
  • Cleaned and disinfected patient rooms and furnishings to uphold a safe environment.
  • Restraint or assistance provided to prevent patient injury when necessary.
  • Organized and encouraged participation in social, educational, and recreational activities.

Certified Nursing Assistant-CNA

Secora Rehabilitation of Cascadia
Portland
01.2022 - 03.2022
  • Grooming and bathing patients with low mobility.
  • Preparing each patient room with necessary items like blankets, pillows, medical equipment and bathroom needs.
  • Helping patients eat.
  • Making sure they have regular meals and snacks.
  • Monitoring vitals and patient behavior and reporting them to the nursing and medical staff.
  • Assisting patients with mobility needs, transferring them from wheelchair to bed.
  • Turning or adjusting patients in bed to prevent bedsores or other discomfort.
  • Exercising patients by helping them walk.

Mental Health Technician

Cascade Behavioral Health Hospital
Tukwila
09.2021 - 12.2021
  • Complete physical checks and monitor patients to detect unusual or harmful behavior and report observations to professional staff.
  • Record and maintain patient information, such as vital signs, eating habits, behavior, progress notes, treatments, or discharge plans.
  • Maintain patients' restrictions to assigned areas.
  • Work as part of a team that may include psychiatrists, psychologists, psychiatric nurses, or social workers.
  • Provide patients with assistance in bathing, dressing, or grooming, demonstrating these skills as necessary.
  • Clean and disinfect rooms and furnishings to maintain a safe and orderly environment.
  • Restrain or aid patients as necessary to prevent injury.
  • Serve meals or feed patients needing assistance or persuasion.
  • Organize, supervise, or encourage patient participation in social, educational, or recreational activities.
  • Aid patients in becoming accustomed to hospital routine.
  • Participate in recreational activities with patients, including card games, sports, or television viewing.
  • Complete administrative tasks, such as entering orders into computer, answering telephone calls, or maintaining medical or facility information.

Mental Health Technician

Wellfound Behavioral Health Hospital
Tacoma
01.2021 - 12.2021
  • Complete physical checks and monitor patients to detect unusual or harmful behavior and report observations to professional staff.
  • Record and maintain patient information, such as vital signs, eating habits, behavior, progress notes, treatments, or discharge plans.
  • Maintain patients' restrictions to assigned areas.
  • Work as part of a team that may include psychiatrists, psychologists, psychiatric nurses, or social workers.
  • Provide patients with assistance in bathing, dressing, or grooming, demonstrating these skills as necessary.
  • Clean and disinfect rooms and furnishings to maintain a safe and orderly environment.
  • Restrain or aid patients as necessary to prevent injury.
  • Serve meals or feed patients needing assistance or persuasion.
  • Organize, supervise, or encourage patient participation in social, educational, or recreational activities.
  • Aid patients in becoming accustomed to hospital routine.
  • Participate in recreational activities with patients, including card games, sports, or television viewing.
  • Complete administrative tasks, such as entering orders into computer, answering telephone calls, or maintaining medical or facility information.

Homecare Aide

Essymons Devoted Homacare LLC
Lakewood
02.2020 - 12.2020
  • Assist with personal care (bathing, dressing, e,t,c)
  • Assist with meal preparation
  • Provide routine house cleaning
  • Transport client to the doctor's office and grocery store
  • Document the patient care via the documentation system daily
  • Assisting with ambulation and exercises
  • Take vital signs.

Mental Health Technician

Port Reitz Hospital
Mombasa
01.2016 - 08.2019
  • Complete physical checks and monitor patients to detect unusual or harmful behavior and report observations to professional staff.
  • Record and maintain patient information, such as vital signs, eating habits, behavior, progress notes, treatments, or discharge plans.
  • Maintain patients' restrictions to assigned areas.
  • Work as part of a team that may include psychiatrists, psychologists, psychiatric nurses, or social workers.
  • Provide patients with assistance in bathing, dressing, or grooming, demonstrating these skills as necessary.
  • Clean and disinfect rooms and furnishings to maintain a safe and orderly environment.
  • Restrain or aid patients as necessary to prevent injury.
  • Serve meals or feed patients needing assistance or persuasion.
  • Organize, supervise, or encourage patient participation in social, educational, or recreational activities.
  • Aid patients in becoming accustomed to hospital routine.
  • Participate in recreational activities with patients, including card games, sports, or television viewing.
  • Complete administrative tasks, such as entering orders into computer, answering telephone calls, or maintaining medical or facility information.

Travel Consultant

Baraka Travels
Mombasa
04.2014 - 12.2015
  • Provide information to clients concerning local and international tours, travel routes, accommodation, local customs, fares, and travel regulations.
  • Discuss client requirements and advise on suitable options.
  • Plan and prepare cost itineraries (travel plans) for clients.
  • Make travel, accommodation and related bookings.
  • Confirm bookings and notify clients of luggage limits and insurance, medical, passport and visa.
  • Issue tickets for travel and all relevant documentation.
  • Collect payments and maintain records of transactions.
  • Assist with changes to travel arrangements and bookings where required.
  • Prepare the daily sales report.

Customer Service Agent

Kenya Airways
02.2013 - 12.2013
  • Dealing with passenger enquiries about flight departures and arrivals.
  • Check-in passengers.
  • Giving seat numbers.
  • Providing boarding passes and luggage labels.
  • Telling passengers about luggage restrictions.
  • Weighing baggage and collecting any excess weight charges.
  • Taking care of people with special needs, and unaccompanied children.

Procurement Officer

Aga Khan Academy
01.2012 - 06.2012
  • Receiving purchases from suppliers and checking requests from throughout the facility and checking for accuracy.
  • Maintaining contact with vendors regarding orders and merchandise, new products, market conditions, and trends; coordinates purchasing.
  • Receiving, inspecting, and distributing merchandise to appropriate individuals; files damage claims with freight companies or vendors.
  • Prepares periodic reports related to purchasing, inventory control and forward to the Procurement Manager.
  • Evaluates the quality and appropriateness of supplies and equipment; conducts cost/quality comparisons prior to submitting requests to procurement manager.
  • Confers with officials from all facility units to determine purchasing needs and specifications.
  • Obtaining updates information on open market and contract purchase prices.
  • Coordinating expenditure records with different departments in order to assure prompt and accurate payment to on-site vendors.

Receptionist/Personal Assistant

Aga Khan Academy
Tacoma
02.2010 - 12.2011
  • Welcomes visitors by greeting them, in person or on the telephone; answering or referring inquiries.
  • Directing visitors by maintaining employee and department directories; giving instructions.
  • Providing a high quality secretarial and organizational support service to the Head of Academy.
  • Providing support for an extensive range of meetings.
  • This included preparing agendas, pre-meeting briefings and meeting papers, noting action points and following them up.
  • Receiving and dealing with telephone calls professionally, re-directing them to the relevant managers.
  • Booking travel arrangements and accommodation for the Head of Academy's office.
  • Assisting with projects by researching or writing reports on them.
  • Preparing correspondence on behalf of the Head of Academy.
  • Coordinate and schedule all daily agendas and to-do list as well as weekly and monthly calendar appointments.
  • Dealing with all the Academies Unit team when they visited the school.
  • Assisting with work permit forms and coordination with the AKES office in Nairobi.
  • In collaboration with transport department, successfully organized and arranged all the airport transfers for the visitors of the Head of Academy.

Customer Service Agent

African Safari Airways
05.2007 - 06.2008
  • Dealing with passenger enquiries about flight departures and arrivals and advising accordingly.
  • Check-in passengers.
  • Giving seat numbers.
  • Providing boarding passes and luggage labels.
  • Informing the passengers about luggage restrictions.
  • Weighing baggage and collecting any excess weight charges.
  • Taking care of people with special needs, and unaccompanied children.

Education

Certificate - CNA

MARY ANN'S CNA TRAINING SCHOOL OF NURSING
Woodland, WA
01.2022

Bachelor's Degree - Biblical Studies

EQUIP INTERNATIONAL BIBLE SCHOOL
Nairobi, Kenya
12.2018

Certificate - Airline passenger Services

KENYA AIRWAYS PRIDE CENTRE
Nairobi
01.2013

Course - Basic Computer Packages

COMPUTER PRIDE CENTRE
Nairobi
04.2007

Skills

  • Servant Leadership
  • Customer Service
  • Patient care
  • Personal hygiene assistance
  • Vital sign monitoring
  • Organizational skills

Certification

  • Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA)
  • Nursing Assistant Registration (NAR)

References

  • Sarah Fennimore, Secora Rehabilitation of Cascadia, Human Resource Manager, (503) 594-9706, sfennimore@cascadiahc.com
  • Diana Blowers, Cascade Behavioral Health Hospital, Former Supervisor, (253) 312-7032, bdsolutions90@gmail.com
  • Esther Ndungu, Essymons Devoted Homecare, Former Manager, (253) 232-2889, essymonsdevoted@gmail.com
  • Caroline Nyawira, Wellfound Behavioral Health Hospital, Former Supervisor, (253) 478-0573, carolinenyawira2010@gmail.com
  • Charles Kimani, Oregon State Hospital, Former Supervisor, (301) 917-7712, cmkimani@yahoo.com
  • Divine Kwizera,Royalty Family Home,Current Supervisor,701-390-8728,divinehome115@gmail.com

Timeline

Certified Nursing Assistant

Royalty Family Home
12.2022 - Current

Mental Health Technician Therapy

Oregon State Hospital
04.2022 - 12.2022

Certified Nursing Assistant-CNA

Secora Rehabilitation of Cascadia
01.2022 - 03.2022

Mental Health Technician

Cascade Behavioral Health Hospital
09.2021 - 12.2021

Mental Health Technician

Wellfound Behavioral Health Hospital
01.2021 - 12.2021

Homecare Aide

Essymons Devoted Homacare LLC
02.2020 - 12.2020

Mental Health Technician

Port Reitz Hospital
01.2016 - 08.2019

Travel Consultant

Baraka Travels
04.2014 - 12.2015

Customer Service Agent

Kenya Airways
02.2013 - 12.2013

Procurement Officer

Aga Khan Academy
01.2012 - 06.2012

Receptionist/Personal Assistant

Aga Khan Academy
02.2010 - 12.2011

Customer Service Agent

African Safari Airways
05.2007 - 06.2008

Certificate - CNA

MARY ANN'S CNA TRAINING SCHOOL OF NURSING

Bachelor's Degree - Biblical Studies

EQUIP INTERNATIONAL BIBLE SCHOOL

Certificate - Airline passenger Services

KENYA AIRWAYS PRIDE CENTRE

Course - Basic Computer Packages

COMPUTER PRIDE CENTRE
Carolyne Muteti