Giselle Baptiste
Brooklyn,NY
Summary
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
Brooklyn, New York
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
Nursing Assistant
The New Jewish Home
New York City, New York
03.2020 - 08.2022
Nursing Assistant
Arch Care
New York City, New York
09.2018 - 01.2020
Education
Nursing Assistant program -
Balkan's Education Institute
GED -
Balkan's Education Institute
Brooklyn, NY01-2018
Skills
- Nursing practices
- Safety and infection control standards
- Medical terminology
- Patient-care equipment
- Verbal communication
- Written communication
- Relationship building
- Emotional support
- Documentation
- Reporting
- Confidentiality
- Accuracy
- Organizational skills
- Time-management
- Team-working
- Physical stamina
- Problem-solving
- Health condition monitoring
Certification
- Patient Care Tech
- Certificate Nursing Assistant-New York
- Basic Cardiac Life Support-(BCLS)
Timeline
Patient Care Assistant
Brookdale Hospital Medical Center
04.2023 - Current
Nursing Assistant
The New Jewish Home
03.2020 - 08.2022
Nursing Assistant
Arch Care
09.2018 - 01.2020
Nursing Assistant program -
Balkan's Education Institute
GED -
Balkan's Education Institute