Highly professional, and talented Patient Care Assistant with a solid experience in providing basic nursing and personal care to patients as well as support to registered nurses and healthcare professionals. Possess excellent communication, team-working, organizational, time-management, and record-keeping skills as well as knowledge related to nursing practices and standards and basic medical terminology.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Patient Care Assistant
Brookdale Hospital Medical Center
04.2023 - Current
Delivering safe and effective patient care services in compliance with nursing standards, and best practices under the supervision of licensed nursing staff
Communicated patients' needs to assigned RN or doctors as well as provided emotional support or encouragement to them and their families
Assisting in maintaining patients' rooms safe, clean, and in orderly fashion as well as adhering to established healthcare safety and infection control standards
Monitored, recorded, and reported changes in patients' conditions or behavior to licensed nurse as well as sought assistance and guidance to ensure high-quality and effective patient care
Promptly answering call lights and responding to patients' needs as well as immediately informing supervisors of any emergency
Assisting with personal hygiene as well as in shifting patients in and out of the bed, wheelchair, bathroom, and toilet
Cleaning, sterilizing, and maintaining medical tools and equipment used in a patient's room
Assisting in recording vital signs, taking weight, and collecting patients' medical histories
Administering prescribed medication and ensuring that special dietary needs are strictly followed as required
Applying cold ice packs or warm compresses as well as changing dresses or bandages as directed by RN
Assisted in recording patients' blood pressure, temperature, pulse and weight on a regular basis as well as monitored and reported patients' unusual physical or behavioral changes to licensed or registered nurses
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