Dorcas Decker
Columbus
Summary
Experienced Healthcare Worker with background in diverse healthcare settings including hospitals, clinics and nursing homes. Strengths include patient care, medical terminology knowledge, and strong communication skills. Skilled at building relationships with patients of all ages and backgrounds, while efficiently coordinating with medical teams to deliver high-quality care. Past roles have involved significant improvements in patient satisfaction levels and operational efficiency.
Overview
23
23
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Healthcare worker
Visiting Angels
Columbus
03.2023 - Current
- Duty includes assisting with client ADLs, compassion care, PCA, meal preparation, bed bath, observation and documentation, reporting clients overall health and well being to the company
Donor Greeter
Goodwill Industries
Columbus
07.2020 - Current
- Greeting donors, accepting donations, sorting donations, pricing donations, providing receipt.
Stocker/Cashier
cheveron gas station
Columbus
04.2019 - 05.2020
- Work as a retail stock clerk. Pulling inventory. Restocking store with ordered products. Maintaining outside area. Maintaining inside store. Assisting cashier. Basic cleaning
Healthcare
Averett LLC Healthcare
Columbus
03.2016 - 07.2016
- Assist disable, diabetic patients and elder clients with ADL, medications, meal preparations, diabetic monitoring, assist diabetic patient with insulin injections, and transportation to and from doctors appointments.
Health Care Worker
Zyons Independent Living
Columbus
01.2012 - 01.2015
- Managed up to eight (8) consumers in a group home setting
- Responsible in ensuring that consumer received nutritious meals on a daily basis
- Ensure that patient received their medication regiment as scheduled
- Document daily activities in the charts
- Knowledgeable and understand the policy and procedures of confidential of the patient's records
- Communicate to the Director of any changes with the patients' health, - physically and mentally
- Organized activities with patients in the community
- All other duties assigned
Health Care Worker
Respite Care
Montgomery
01.2007 - 01.2008
- Responsible in ensuring that veterans patients' personal hygiene was satisfactory
- Provided companion care for veterans on a daily by transporting them to different activities in the community
- Provided light housekeeping duties at any given time
- Transport clients to doctor appointments, grocery shopping, and picking up medication
- All other duties assigned
- Travel to different location and assist in emergency health issues
Health Care Worker
Emergency Medical Services
Montgomery
01.2007 - 01.2008
- Responsible in completing patient assessments
- Respond and transport trauma patients to hospital
- Perform CPR/First Aid at any given time
- Provide care as needed to elderly, diabetic, pre-birth labor, rapid exams, wound care, and mental health patients
- All other duties assigned
Hospital Assistant
Griel Hospital
Montgomery
01.2006 - 01.2007
- Issued out different toilettes to patients on a daily
- Monitor the recreation room for safety reason
- Clean the bathroom, dump trash, wash linens and towels on a daily basis
- All other duties assigned
Certified Nurse Aide (Contractor)
Alliance Health Care
Columbus
01.2003 - 01.2005
- Assist patients with Activity of Daily living skills (ADL's)
- Ensure that patients' hygiene was satisfactory
- Changed bed linens and replaced with clean linens
- Assist with tube feeding
- Provide Private duty sitter
- All other duties assigned
Education
Psychology -
Argosy University
Phoenix, AZEMT - Medical Services
Trenholm State
Columbus, GACertified - General Training
Enrichment Services CNA Training Program
Columbus, GASubstance Abuse and Mental Health - Certificate
Department Of Human Resources
Atlanta, GACriminal Justice - Criminal Justice Certification
Columbus State University
Columbus, GASkills
- Vital signs
- Employee Orientation
- Medical Records
- Hospice Care
- Quality Assurance
- Documentation
- Caregiving
- Medical Office Experience
- Management
- Recruiting
- Office Management
- Hospitality Experience
- Conflict management
- Patient monitoring
- Computer Operation
- Care plans
- Critical Care Experience
- Customer Service
- Laboratory Experience
- Merchandising
- Microsoft Office
- Microsoft Excel
- First aid
- Crisis intervention
- ADLs
- Personal Assistant Experience
- Patient Care
- Driving
- Experience Administering Injections
- Mental Health
- Tube Feeding
- Cashiering
- 100 WPM
- Medication Administration
- Basic IV
- Hospital Experience
- Retail Sales
- Nursing
- Case Management
- EMR Systems
- Social Work
- Human Resources
- Van driver
- Home Care
- Healthcare documentation
Certification
- First Aid Certification, 11/01/26, 11/01/27
- Driver's License, 06/01/19, 06/01/27
- CPR Certification, 01/01/26, 01/01/27
- BLS Certification
- AED Certification
Personal Information
Title: Health Care Worker
Additional Information - Driver License Status
currently up to date
Languages
English
Full Professional
Timeline
Healthcare worker
Visiting Angels
03.2023 - Current
Donor Greeter
Goodwill Industries
07.2020 - Current
Stocker/Cashier
cheveron gas station
04.2019 - 05.2020
Healthcare
Averett LLC Healthcare
03.2016 - 07.2016
Health Care Worker
Zyons Independent Living
01.2012 - 01.2015
Health Care Worker
Respite Care
01.2007 - 01.2008
Health Care Worker
Emergency Medical Services
01.2007 - 01.2008
Hospital Assistant
Griel Hospital
01.2006 - 01.2007
Certified Nurse Aide (Contractor)
Alliance Health Care
01.2003 - 01.2005
Psychology -
Argosy University
EMT - Medical Services
Trenholm State
Certified - General Training
Enrichment Services CNA Training Program
Substance Abuse and Mental Health - Certificate
Department Of Human Resources
Criminal Justice - Criminal Justice Certification
Columbus State University