Gary Rustin

Worked within the Intensive Residential Treatment Services (IRTS) program, to help provide a safe, healing environment for adults who need support for serious mental illnesses.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Provide client specific support to residents in the areas of mental health monitoring, medication compliance, and independent living skills.
• Suicide assessment.
• Utilization of community resources and inter-agency case-coordination.
• Crisis prevention.
• Facilitate resident program activities, including group therapy.
• Monitor and provided for client wellbeing and safety.

Same as above.

Worked within a board and lodge facility for up to forty chronically chemically dependent adults.

Primary responsibilities:

• Promote chemically-free lifestyle and maintain a safe and clean environment.
• Mediate inter-resident conflict.
• Help residents solve problems in living
• Administer and document medications
• Document significant events.

Assisted three individuals, in a residential setting, with developmental disabilities.

Primary responsibilities:

• Provide for safety within home and community.
• Help coach residents to develop independent living skills in accordance with their Independent Program Plans.
• Document within program and medication books and dispense medication as prescribed.

Provided nursing assistant care for residents of a long term living facility for veterans.

Responsibilities included:

• Perform duties in a timely manner as directed by facility and/or licensed designee within the scope of practice.
• Safeguard client/patient by observing appropriate infection control procedures including but not limited to universal precautions.
• Notifies supervising nurse of any abnormal findings.

As a One-to-One Trainer in a group home for people with developmental disabilities, I supervised an individual with the diagnosis of Antisocial Personality Disorder.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Implementing Individual Program Plan.
• Teaching and modeling appropriate social and living skills.

After eighteen months of employment I transitioned to the Night Supervisor position.

Primary responsibility:

• Ordering and receiving medications for thirty individuals, and ensuring accurate medication administration and documentation by staff.
• Provide overnight security, documenting concerns and significant events.

Provided direct support for six individuals living in a residential facility for people with developmental disabilities.

Responsibilities Included:

• Assess and train residents in daily living skills.
• Administer and document medications.
• Monitor residents for health and hygiene needs.
• Document significant events.

Supported three to four clients with mental illness in a group home environment.

Responsibilities included:

• Facilitate program development, assessment, and documentation.
• Provide supervision, assistance, and training to residents in managing daily living task and problem solving.
• Help create daily, weekly, quarterly, and annual documentation for assigned residents.

In volunteer rolls I support/supported engaging, fun, and smooth-running events.

Volunteer Opportunities:

• The Landing in Rochester, MN, a Day Center for people who are homeless. (Current)
• Mayo Clinic Methodist Hospital Patient Library (For six months in 2005)
• The Charter House Mayo Clinic Retirement Living with the Recreational Therapy Dept. (For one year starting 2003)