Dayrosheia Summers
Milwaukee
Summary
Behavioral health professional who brings valuable experience in patient care and therapeutic support. Known for facilitating positive outcomes through effective treatment plans and compassionate care. Able to adapt to dynamic environments, collaborating seamlessly with team members to achieve optimal patient results. Skilled in crisis intervention and patient assessment, with focus on empathetic communication and reliability.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Behavioral Health Technician
Mental Health Emergency Center
03.2024 - Current
- Conducted client rounds to check on residents.
- Delivered compassionate care under challenging circumstances, consistently demonstrating resilience and adaptability when faced with unexpected obstacles or setbacks in patient progress.
- Provided crisis intervention services, successfully de-escalating situations and ensuring patient safety.
- Built and maintained positive staff relationships to promote teamwork and better serve clients.
Certified Nursing Assistant
Sage Creek Post Acute
03.2023 - 02.2024
- Assist with dressing, showering, toileting and meals
- Take and record vitals
- Shift to shift rounds
- Report changes to the nurse
- Repositioning patients
- Daily shift charting
- Light housekeeping
- Monitored vital signs, including blood pressure and heart rate, to identify changes in patient health.
- Provided empathetic support to patients experiencing emotional distress or confusion.
Certified Nursing Assistant
Torrey Pines Rehabilitation Center
12.2022 - 02.2023
- Noc shift rounding
- Assist with toileting, dressing and showers
- Daily charting
- Repositioning patients throughout the shift
- Take and record vitals
Psych Tech
Granite Hills
09.2022 - 11.2022
- Assessing new admits through emergency services, logging belongings, valuables and medications
- Pre admission
- Monitoring behaviors, recording vitals, assisting with meals, leading groups for patient treatment, rounding the environment for safety
- Provide one to one supervision for high acuity patients to maintain safety
Psych Tech
Milwaukee County Behavioral Health Services
09.2019 - 09.2022
- Monitoring behaviors, recording vitals, assisting with meals, leading groups for patient treatment, rounding the environment for safety every 15 minutes, redirecting patient behaviors, transporting patients from facility to home, group homes and other hospitals using company van
- Training and overseeing peers to ensure all tasks are met during the shift
Certified Nursing Assistant
Froedtert Hospital
10.2019 - 03.2020
- Nursing Assistant on the Cardiac step down unit
- Monitor patient's after heart surgery, heart conditions and pre operative heart surgery
- Take and record vitals every 2 and 4 hours
- Remove IV sites, remove Foley catheters, take blood sugars
- Report any changes to charge nurses
- Daily charting
- Communicate with nurses and physicians
Patient Care Associate/Support Specialist
Rogers Behavioral Hospital
07.2017 - 06.2019
- Assist child and adolescent patients with behavioral issues
- Lead groups for therapeutic intervention
- Monitor the milieu
- Train peers
- Put together patient charts
- Log belongings
- Communicate with psychiatrist and therapist
- Facilitated smooth transitions between shifts by communicating pertinent patient information during detailed handoff reports.
Hospice Aide
St. Camillus
11.2015 - 07.2017
- Home care for hospice patients within a community
- Assist patients with dressing, cleaning and hygiene
- Encourage medication management
- Take blood sugars
- Provide comfort care for last stage patients
- Communicate with RN and physicians
- Developed strong therapeutic relationships with patients and their families based on trust, empathy, active listening skills, and open communication.
- Assisted patients with bathing, grooming, dressing, and oral hygiene care both in private residences and facilities.
Certified Nursing Assistant
Jewish Home and Care Center
07.2016 - 06.2017
- Assist with dressing, showering, toileting and meals
- Take and record vitals
- Shift to shift rounds
- Report changes to the nurse
- Repositioning patients
- Daily shift charting
- Light housekeeping
- Assisted with feeding and monitored intake to help patients achieve nutritional objectives.
Certified Nursing Assistant
Eastside Health and Rehabilitation Center
04.2013 - 06.2016
- Assist with dressing, showering, toileting and meals
- Take and record vitals
- Shift to shift rounds
- Report changes to the nurse
- Repositioning patients
- Daily shift charting
- Light housekeeping
- Applied infection control techniques, including proper hand hygiene and use of personal protective equipment, to maintain a sterile environment.
- Prevented pressure ulcers development through frequent turning, repositioning of patients, and diligent skin assessments.
Education
Business Management and Administration -
Milwaukee Area Technical College
Milwaukee, WI07-2020
Nursing Assistant Training -
Quality Healthcare Options
Milwaukee, WI02-2004
High School Diploma -
John Marshall High
Milwaukee, WI06-2003
Skills
- Receptionist
- Healthcare Assistance Skills
- EKG
- CPR
- Medical Terminology
- Microsoft Word
- Medical Records
- Filing
- Customer service
- Catheter Care
- Hoyer Lift
- Caregiving
- Adolescent health
- Child safety promotion
- Child abuse identification
- Behavioral intervention
- Autism support
- Behavioral management
Certification
- First Aid Certification - American Red Cross or American Heart Association.
- Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification - American Heart Association.
- Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) - State Boards of Nursing.
Timeline
Behavioral Health Technician
Mental Health Emergency Center
03.2024 - Current
Certified Nursing Assistant
Sage Creek Post Acute
03.2023 - 02.2024
Certified Nursing Assistant
Torrey Pines Rehabilitation Center
12.2022 - 02.2023
Psych Tech
Granite Hills
09.2022 - 11.2022
Certified Nursing Assistant
Froedtert Hospital
10.2019 - 03.2020
Psych Tech
Milwaukee County Behavioral Health Services
09.2019 - 09.2022
Patient Care Associate/Support Specialist
Rogers Behavioral Hospital
07.2017 - 06.2019
Certified Nursing Assistant
Jewish Home and Care Center
07.2016 - 06.2017
Hospice Aide
St. Camillus
11.2015 - 07.2017
Certified Nursing Assistant
Eastside Health and Rehabilitation Center
04.2013 - 06.2016
Business Management and Administration -
Milwaukee Area Technical College
Nursing Assistant Training -
Quality Healthcare Options
High School Diploma -
John Marshall High
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