JEWEL GARCIA
Racine,WI
Summary
Compassionate Certified Nursing Assistant diligent about serving patient's 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
12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Certified Nursing Assistant
Hospice Alliance
Pleasant Prairie, WI
04.2024 - Current
- Provided physical, emotional, and spiritual support to terminally ill patients and their families.
- Assist in the delivery of patient care services as delegated by the RN Case Manager or other healthcare professionals.
- Supported grieving families by offering listening ear, compassion and kindness.
- Performed personal hygiene activities such as bathing, grooming, dressing and undressing and toileting assistance.
- Assisted with ambulation and transfers using proper body mechanics techniques.
- Provided companionship to patients while encouraging them to remain active within their limitations.
Certified Nursing Assistant
The Sisters of St. Dominic
Racine, WI
10.2018 - 04.2024
- Administer medication/Insulin
- Record documentation and other important information on paper
- Make beds and do laundry
- Change dressings and other wound treatment cares
- Assist with everyday activities
Certified Nursing Assistant
Shorelight Memory Care
Racine, WI
02.2016 - 10.2018
- Collected specimens such as urine, feces, and sputum
- Turned and re-positioned bedridden patients, alone and with assistance, to prevent bedsores
- Successfully handled challenging situations with behaviors in patients
- Cleaned rooms and changed linens
- Answered phones and directed visitors
- Administered medications and treatments, such as catheterizations and suppositories
- Explained medical instructions to patients and family members
- Prepared, served, and collected food trays
Certified Nursing Assistant
Elizabeth Residence
Racine, WI
11.2012 - 02.2016
- Transported patients to treatment units, using a wheelchair and stretcher
- Executed daily operations of lifts
- Answered patients' call signals
- Documentation of residents' progress
- Fed patients who were unable to feed themselves
- Observed patients' conditions, measuring and recording food and liquid intake and output and vital signs, and reported changes to professional staff
- Provided patient care by supplying and emptying bed pans, applying dressings and supervising exercise routines
- Trained on coming staff on regulations and techniques at the facility
- Provided patients with help walking, exercising, and moving in and out of bed
- Bathed, groomed, shaved, dressed, and draped patients to prepare them for surgery, treatment, and examination
Education
High School Diploma -
Horlick High School
Racine, WICertified Nursing Assistant -
Gateway Technical College
Kenosha, WISkills
- Monitoring fluids
- Patient Lifting
- Medical terminology knowledge
- Transporting patients
- Condition Monitoring
- Direct Patient Care
- Basic Life Support
- Heavy Lifting
- Palliative Care
Certification
Certified Nursing Assistant, 341271
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
Certified Nursing Assistant
Hospice Alliance
04.2024 - Current
Certified Nursing Assistant
The Sisters of St. Dominic
10.2018 - 04.2024
Certified Nursing Assistant
Shorelight Memory Care
02.2016 - 10.2018
Certified Nursing Assistant
Elizabeth Residence
11.2012 - 02.2016
High School Diploma -
Horlick High School
Certified Nursing Assistant -
Gateway Technical College