Clifford Hawthorne
Brooklyn
Summary
Healthcare professional ready to contribute to patient care excellence. Expertise in providing compassionate care and supporting medical staff in fast-paced environments. Reliable team player focused on adapting to evolving patient needs and delivering quality outcomes.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Patient Care Technician
New York City Health and Hospital Gouverneur
03.2024 - 07.2025
- Assisted with serving meals, feeding patients as necessary, ambulating, turning, and positioning patients; provided fresh water and nourishment between meals, resulting in patient satisfaction.
- Ensures patient comfort using resources and materials; transports patients; responds to patients' call lights and requests; reports patient observations to the nursing supervisor.
- Documents actions by completing forms, reports, logs, and records.
- Maintains work operations by following policies and procedures.
- Protect patient information confidentiality.
- Updates job knowledge through educational opportunities and maintaining licensure.
Certified Nursing Assistant
Haym Solomon Home for Nursing and Rehabilitation
08.2023 - 03.2024
- Monitors forty residents daily and perform hourly rounds for high-risk elopements and fall prevention with five team members.
- Conducts care activities such as bed baths, showering, and perineal care.
- Manages oral hygiene, dressing, hair combing, observing skin conditions, and changing bed linens.
- Serves and removes food trays, feeds as necessary, and provides two daily meals.
- Provides general nursing care per eight-hour shift, including positioning, lifting, turning residents, and operating Hoyer lift.
- Follows infection control procedures to maintain a safe environment.
- Respond to residents call lights hourly and provide basic needs and rounds to assigned residents.
- Documents daily ADL activities for each resident on Epic System.
Nursing Assistant/Aide Externship
Harlem Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation
07.2023 - 07.2023
- Assists residents with daily living activities.
- Supports wheelchair transfers and operation of Hoyer lift, and transports residents.
- Maintains infection control and changes bedding.
- Help with residents’ assessment, care planning, and meeting nutritional needs.
- Turns and repositions residents to prevent pressure injuries or sores.
- Bathes, feeds, and dresses residents.
USAID Community Healthcare Worker
Cornwall Regional Hospital
08.2017 - 05.2021
- Actively contributed to the delivery of compassionate care, collaborating closely with medical professionals to monitor patient treatment plans and progress, resulting in an increase in patient outcomes.
- Provided patient education sessions focusing on disease management, preventive health practices, and medication literacy.
- Participated in health advocacy campaigns by facilitating focus groups and community forums, enabling stakeholders to voice their needs and co-create solutions.
- Fostered partnerships with governmental agencies and private organizations to enhance resource mobilization and streamline the delivery of essential health services.
- Collaborated with local NGOs to coordinate referrals for specialized care and social support resources. Delivered culturally sensitive counseling and emotional support to individuals and families coping with chronic illness or new diagnoses.
- Engaged in ongoing professional development by attending training sessions on trauma-informed care, motivational interviewing, and emerging public health services.
Education
GED -
Suny BEOC
Brooklyn, NY06.2025
Nurse Aide Certification -
New Age Training
New York, NY07.2023
Brooklyn Adult Learning Center BALC
Brooklyn, NY05.2023
No Degree - Supervisory Management-Healthcare
Northern Caribbean University NCU
Mandeville, Jamaica12.2020
Skills
- Time management and Microsoft Office
- Customer Service and Effective communication
- Compassionate people skills
- Teamwork and Adaptability
- Trained Support Group Facilitator
- Patient observation
- Vital signs monitoring
- Infection control standards
- Patient services
- Data collection
- Patient hygiene management
- Medical terminology
Certification
- New York State Certified Nursing Assistant License
- Nursing Assistant Certification
- General Education Diploma
- Supervisory Management Healthcare Professional Course Certificate
- Perfect Attendance Award
- Certificate of Appreciation
LEADERSHIP AND COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
- Trained Support Group Facilitator
- Facilitate support groups for the PLHIV, engage with them in a non-clinical setting to ensure medication adherence, drug interactions/side effects, reinforce adherence resulting viral load suppression and undetectable lab results.
- Develop working relationships with patients, family members, and treatment staff, and assist with home visits, pharmacy pick-ups, and bi-weekly follow-up phone calls.
- Documents of patient's medical progress.
Timeline
Patient Care Technician
New York City Health and Hospital Gouverneur
03.2024 - 07.2025
Certified Nursing Assistant
Haym Solomon Home for Nursing and Rehabilitation
08.2023 - 03.2024
Nursing Assistant/Aide Externship
Harlem Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation
07.2023 - 07.2023
USAID Community Healthcare Worker
Cornwall Regional Hospital
08.2017 - 05.2021
GED -
Suny BEOC
Nurse Aide Certification -
New Age Training
Brooklyn Adult Learning Center BALC
No Degree - Supervisory Management-Healthcare
Northern Caribbean University NCU
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