Corrina Gourde
Healthcare Worker
Roscommon,MI
Summary
Surgical Technologist, in training, through Kirtland Community College, AAS Surgical Technology Program. Seeking an altruistic profession in a large reputable facility, to utilize my skills, achieve team growth, and business success.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
2
2
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Certifications
Work History
Direct Care Worker
La Joy F.I.
Saginaw, MI
03.2020 - Current
- Scheduled and accompanied clients to medical appointments.
- Maintained clean personal areas and prepared healthy meals to support client nutritional needs.
- Evaluated client progress toward established annual and quarterly goals.
- Planned healthy meals, purchased ingredients and cooked meals to provide adequate nutrition for client wellbeing.
- Remained alert to problems or health issues of clients and competently responded.
- Transported individuals to events and activities, medical appointments and shopping trips.
- Determined specific needs and provided most appropriate level of services for patient well-being.
- Assisted clients with daily living needs to maintain self-esteem and general wellness.
- Provided safe mobility support to help patients move around personal and public spaces.
- Turned and positioned bedbound patients to prevent bedsores and maintain comfort levels.
Paraprofessional/Independent Facilitator
C.O.O.R Intermediate School, Rise Center for Autism
Roscommon, MI
01.2020 - 09.2022
- certified substitute (2020-2022) on-call basis
- monitor, assist, and provide support for students with special needs to implement the student’s Individualized Education Program (IEP)
- maintain consistency with routines per student (IEP) goals
- incident reporting and other additional requirements and documents.
- behavior data tracking daily
- regular meetings to share and analyze student performance data and success plans with colleagues.
- Planned daily activities to keep students engaged and on track with learning goals.
- Promoted memory, cognition and language development with hands-on activities and individualized instruction and life skills coaching.
- training in non-verbal communication alternative's such as PECS, Gemini, ASL, various communication boards, and tablet.
- implement behavior intervention plans, and maintain CPI protocol
- Applied proven strategies to improve students' sensory- and perceptual-motor skills.
- Exceeded goals through effective task prioritization and great work ethic.
- Administered medication as necessary per doctors instruction.
ABA Behavior Therapist
Rise Center For Austism
Prudenville, MI
01.2019 - 01.2020
- Provided discrete trial training to improve gross and fine motor coordination, movement and cognitive growth.
- maintain time- management for tasks and objective goals.
- Engaging brain break activities, and creating customized brain break cards
- implemented individualized token economy systems
- Ran fisher-paired choice assessments daily
- Maintained behavioral fidelity when collecting ABC data
- Performed behavioral therapy assessments and treatments in patients' homes with and without direct supervision.
- Maintain Weekly supervision hours with licensed BCBA
- strengthen rapport with clients with implementing natural environment training
- Record Behaviors via the ABC Data on CATALYST, tracking Antecedents and Behaviors to their Consequences, as well as indicate duration, severity, group size, and location of Behavior event.
Executive Administrative Assistant
Treetops Resort
Gaylord , MI
01.2018 - 12.2018
- Donation and Voucher distribution, acceptance or denial correspondence, tracking, processing, and delivering approved donations
- Marketing assistant and distribution or promotional materials
- background checks, I-9 updates, MVR, and other onboarding duties.
- Attend weekly one-on-one HR meetings
- track packages, coordinate department orders, and inventory of various departments.
- Manager correspondence between departments
- Track minutes monthly as administrator for safety committee and distribute monthly tasks goals, improvements, modifications to supervisors.
- Maintain business (EOS) Entrepreneurial Operating system
- Handle all incoming and outgoing mail, and packages.
- Responded to emails and other correspondence to facilitate communication and enhance business processes and company growth.
- Planned large company events, and employee appreciation party.
Registered Behavior Technician
Autism Centers of Michigan
Traverse City, MI
05.2015 - 01.2018
- Learned specialized behavior approaches, and techniques to implement behavioral strategies.
- Collaborated with client's support system and other allied specialists to implement positive interventions.
- Conducted functional behavior assessments, functional analysis, preference assessments and assessments of basic learning and language skills to identify target behaviors and purpose of behaviors.
- Worked as part of collaborative team to address changing needs of children and families.
- Intervened with clients' challenging behaviors by reinforcing therapeutic alternatives and coping mechanisms.
- Used various software to document ABC data, patient information, treatment plans, incident reportings when necessary, and daily progress notes.
Education
Associate of Applied Science - Surgical Technology
Kirtland Community College
Roscommon, MI 08.2022 - Current
Associate of Science and Arts -
Kirtland Community College
09.2017 - 05.2019
Skills
Empathy
Stress Management
Microsoft Office, Spreadsheets/Excel, PowerPoint, Word, AccessTyping (60-80 wpm)
Strong Customer Relations SkillsData entry-proofing and 60-70 wpm with accuracy
Problem Solving
Direct Patient Care and wound care maintained
Medical terminology and surgical procedures
Surgical Technology training program knowledge
Successfully completed ASL courses through Mid Michigan College
Certification
Basic Life Support (BLS)
Timeline
Basic Life Support (BLS)
10-2022
Associate of Applied Science - Surgical Technology
Kirtland Community College
08.2022 - Current
Michigan Substitute Teaching License
09-2021
CPR and First Aid
09-2021
Direct Care Worker
La Joy F.I.
03.2020 - Current
Paraprofessional/Independent Facilitator
C.O.O.R Intermediate School, Rise Center for Autism
01.2020 - 09.2022
ABA Behavior Therapist
Rise Center For Austism
01.2019 - 01.2020
Executive Administrative Assistant
Treetops Resort
01.2018 - 12.2018
Associate of Science and Arts -
Kirtland Community College
09.2017 - 05.2019
Registered Behavior Technician
Autism Centers of Michigan
05.2015 - 01.2018