Jackqueline Bower
Champlin,Minnesota
Summary
Compassionate Certified Nursing Assistant diligent about serving patients' medical and personal needs. Focused on delivering high-quality care to individuals from diverse backgrounds. Dedicated to protecting patient safety and promoting satisfaction with facility services. Kind and energetic professional with outstanding bedside manner and charting abilities.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
Work History
Certified Nursing Assistant
Trillium Woods Care Center
Plymouth, MN
07.2015 - 12.2019
- Help patients with activities of daily living
- Give baths/showers and dress patients
- Served meals and assisted patients unable to feed themselves to ensure proper nutrition
- Transfer and toilet patients every two hours
- Ambulate and reposition patients that are in wheelchairs and on bedrest
- Measured and recorded vital signs, including blood pressure and heart rate, to track patient health status
- Organized and made beds in patient rooms to maintain cleanliness and enhance patient comfort
- Pass out snacks and nutritional drinks to patients
- Organize activities/recreations and encourage patients to participate
Trained Medication Aide
Covenant Village/Colonial Acres
Golden Valley, MN
05.2014 - 01.2016
- Set up and administered medications to patients
- Monitored patients for medication reactions and side effects, ensuring timely interventions
- Take vital signs and give treatments
- Documented and reported changes in patient condition to charge nurse, facilitating prompt care adjustments
- Refilled medications when needed and organized medication cart
- Checked blood glucose levels using glucometer, administering insulin as needed to maintain patient health
- Perform wound cleaning and dressing
- Applied protective barrier cream to patient body.
Trained Medication Aide
Maranatha Care Center
Brooklyn Center, MN
02.2012 - 01.2014
- Monitored patients for medication reactions and side effects to ensure safety and timely intervention
- Set up and administered medications to patients
- Took vital signs and administered treatments to support patient health and comfort
- Documented and reported changes in patient condition to charge nurse
- Refilled medication cart to maintain ready access for patient care
Phlebotomy
Grifols Plasma Center
Fridley, MN
05.2018 - 04.2020
- Calibrate machines to make sure they work properly for plasma collection
- Draw blood from veins by vacuum tube, syringe, or butterfly venipuncture methods
- Draw blood from capillaries by dermal puncture, such as heel or finger stick methods
- Ensure proper vein and venipuncture site selection to facilitate safe blood draw.
- Prepare the venipuncture site with alcohol swab or iodine solution
- Conduct hemoglobin tests to ensure donor iron levels are normal
- Collect specimens at specific time intervals for tests
- Check specimen tubes to make sure it matches laboratory requisition forms or patient chart
- Identify donor or patients by asking them to verify personal information
- Explained fluid or tissue collection procedures to patients, enhancing their understanding and comfort
- Monitored blood or plasma donors during and after procedures, ensuring their health, safety, and comfort
Human Services Technician
Anoka Metro Regional Treatment Center
Anoka, MN
08.2018 - Current
- Facilitated patient support in a safe environment by employing critical thinking, behavioral intervention, and crisis negotiation techniques.
- Delivered quality care and social supports aligned with treatment plans to address individual needs.
- Promoted patient hygiene, monitored status and documented observations, and supported unit activities through accurate data entry.
- Promoted patient privacy and dignity by fostering a caring and respectful environment.
Certified Nursing Assistant
North Ridge Care Center
New Hope, MN
11.2010 - 06.2015
- Assisted patients with activities of daily living to enhance independence and well-being
- Assisted patients with bathing and dressing to promote hygiene
- Served meals and assisted patients unable to feed themselves to ensure proper nutrition
- Ambulate and reposition patients that are in wheelchairs and on bedrest
- Measured and recorded vital signs and weights for patient assessments
- Monitored blood glucose levels and administered insulin for diabetes management
- Set up nebulizer treated and administered oxygen to patient
- Administered eye drops and ear drops
- Maintained catheter and drainage bags by cleaning and securely attaching
- Maintained cleanliness in patient rooms to promote comfort and safety
Certified Nursing Assistant
Champaign County Nursing Home
Champaign, IL
09.2008 - 10.2010
- Transfer and toilet patients every two hours
- Ambulate and reposition patients that are in wheelchairs and on bedrest
- Take vital signs and patient weights
- Served meals and assisted patients with feeding to ensure proper nutrition intake
- Ensured accurate blood glucose readings for patient care and gave insulin
- Prepared nebulizer treatments and administered oxygen to enhance patient respiratory function
- Administered eye drops and ear drops
- Performed cleaning of catheter to ensure hygiene and drainage bag and attached bag to patient
- Organize activities/recreations and encourage patients to participate
Education
Associate of Applied Science - Radiology Technology
Rasmussen University
Lake Elmo, MN08-2024
Skills
- CNA
- TMA
- Phlebotomy
- Patient safety
- Patient assessments
- Performing patient intakes
- Patient-focused care
- Respiratory support
- CPR/BLS
- Electronic charting
- Medical terminology
- Epic
- Communication effectiveness
- Team collaboration
- Interdisciplinary collaboration
- Patient relations
- Maintaining privacy
- Patient engagement
- Complex Problem-solving
- Clinical judgment
- Range of motion exercises
- Dementia care
- Respiratory equipment training
- Activity coordination
- Microsoft
- Communication effectiveness
- Team collaboration
Timeline
Human Services Technician
Anoka Metro Regional Treatment Center
08.2018 - Current
Phlebotomy
Grifols Plasma Center
05.2018 - 04.2020
Certified Nursing Assistant
Trillium Woods Care Center
07.2015 - 12.2019
Trained Medication Aide
Covenant Village/Colonial Acres
05.2014 - 01.2016
Trained Medication Aide
Maranatha Care Center
02.2012 - 01.2014
Certified Nursing Assistant
North Ridge Care Center
11.2010 - 06.2015
Certified Nursing Assistant
Champaign County Nursing Home
09.2008 - 10.2010
Associate of Applied Science - Radiology Technology
Rasmussen University