LAKEISHA SAVAGE
PENSACOLA,FL
Summary
Experienced nursing professional providing quality care to patients in variety of medical settings. Delivers excellent communication and task prioritization skills for effective patient care coordination. Proven ability to stay organized and prioritize tasks in fast-paced environment.
Overview
29
29
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
CNA
Bay Breeze Nursing and Rehabilitation
04.2025 - Current
- Provided direct patient care, ensuring comfort and safety in daily activities.
- Assisted with mobility and personal hygiene, fostering independence among patients.
- Monitored vital signs and reported changes to nursing staff promptly.
- Collaborated with healthcare team to develop personalized care plans for patients.
- Trained new staff on best practices for patient care and safety protocols.
- Implemented efficiency improvements in workflow, enhancing overall patient satisfaction.
- Advocated for patient needs, ensuring quality care and adherence to health standards.
- Assisted patients with daily living activities, promoting independence and dignity.
- Checked patient vitals such as temperature, blood pressure, and blood sugar levels.
- Promoted good oral and personal hygiene by aiding patients with shaving, bathing, and teeth brushing.
- Enhanced patient satisfaction by providing compassionate and attentive care.
- Maintained confidentiality of patient information according to HIPAA guidelines while communicating effectively with team members about critical updates.
- Answered call lights and supported patient comfort and safety by adjusting bed rails and equipment.
- Utilized proper body mechanics and assistance devices when transferring patients, minimizing the risk of injury for both parties.
- Ensured prompt response to call lights, addressing patient needs in a timely manner.
- Assisted with feeding and monitored intake to help patients achieve nutritional objectives.
- Prevented bedsores by regularly repositioning patients and implementing proper wound care techniques.
- Delivered individualized patient care by recording vital signs, documenting observations, administering treatments, and evaluating patient needs.
- Provided emotional support for patients during challenging times, fostering a positive healing environment.
- Implemented fall prevention measures by identifying high-risk patients and maintaining clutter-free environments around bedsides.
- Cared for residents in assisted living facility and delivered high-quality support to meet needs.
- Reduced patient stress levels through effective communication and active listening skills.
- Promoted infection control practices within the facility by adhering to strict hand hygiene procedures and utilizing personal protective equipment when necessary.
- Cared for clients with diagnoses such as respiratory failure, diabetes, Parkinson's disease and muscular dystrophy.
- Offered immediate assistance in emergency and routine paging situations to evaluate needs and deliver care.
- Evaluated patients to identify and address wounds, behavioral concerns, and medically relevant symptoms.
- Oversaw and maintained patients' rooms, group living areas, and nurse stations.
- Assisted in emergency situations under the direction of nursing supervisors or physicians, providing crucial support during life-saving interventions.
- Supported ambulation and physical therapy needs by conducting planned exercise routines.
- Conducted routine safety checks on equipment, promptly reporting any malfunctions or safety concerns to appropriate personnel.
- Participated in ongoing educational opportunities in order to stay up-to-date on best practices in nursing care.
- Facilitated smooth patient transitions from hospital settings to home or long-term care facilities, ensuring continuity of care throughout the process.
- Collaborated with interdisciplinary healthcare teams to develop and implement individualized care plans for patients.
- Served as a liaison between patients, families, and medical staff to ensure clear communication and understanding of treatment plans.
- Delivered high-quality care to Type patients in hospital facility.
- Observed patients under care conditions to help identify symptoms, responses to treatments and progress with goals.
- Upheld infection control and prevention policies across different patient-facing areas.
- Transported patients between rooms and appointments or testing locations.
- Supported needs of Number+ residents under long-term care.
- Provided care to patients throughout lifespan with consideration of aging processes, human development stages and culture.
- Prevented cross-contamination by cleaning and sterilizing equipment.
- Helped patients complete range of motion exercises to prevent loss of function during care.
- Responded to patient requests for supplies and personal comfort items such as extra blankets.
- Maintained patient stability by checking vital signs and weight and recording intake and outtake information.
- Contributed to successful discharge planning through coordination with social services and rehabilitation facilities.
- Helped clean and prepare patient consultation rooms to maintain hygiene standards
- Participated in fun group activities with patients to boost mood, improve overall memory, and provide light entertainment.
- Changed linens in rooms, keeping spaces fresh and clean for patient health and satisfaction.
- Completed activities of daily living for patients unable to self-care, and assisted those with limited mobility in completing tasks.
- Documented patient information and care activities in electronic health record.
- Assisted nursing staff with completing daily rounds, documenting vital signs and answering calls.
- Helped patients with self-feeding and assisted feeding, based on individual needs.
- Facilitated personal hygiene management, feeding and ambulation.
CNA
Career Staff
02.2023 - Current
- Measured patient vital signs, recording body temperature, blood pressure, and heart rate.
- Delivered direct care to patients, assisting with bathing, feeding, and grooming tasks.
- Prepared residents for meals and assisted with feeding.
- Completed daily documentation and charts regarding patient care and input reports into practice databases.
- Answered call lights to provide emergency treatment and assistance to patients.
- Answered patient call signals, signal lights or bells to determine patient needs.
- Prepared and served food trays.
- Kept patient information confidential to protect organization’s value.
- Turned and repositioned bedridden patients.
CNA
SHIFTKEY
01.2022 - Current
- Answer patient call signals, signal lights, bells, or intercom systems to determine patients’ needs.
- Apply clean dressings, slings, stockings, or support bandages, under direction of nurse or physician.
- Assist nurses or physicians in the operation of medical equipment or provision of patient care.
- Change bed linens or make beds.
- Clean and sanitize patient rooms, bathrooms, examination rooms, or other patient areas.
- Collect specimens, such as urine, feces, or sputum.
- Communicate with patients to ascertain feelings or need for assistance or social and emotional support.
- Document or otherwise report observations of patient behavior, complaints, or physical symptoms to nurses.
- Observe or examine patients to detect symptoms that may require medical attention, such as bruises, open wounds, or blood in urine.
- Prepare or serve food trays.
- Provide physical support to assist patients to perform daily living activities, such as getting out of bed, bathing, dressing, using the toilet, standing, walking, or exercising.
- Record height or weight of patients.
- Record vital signs, such as temperature, blood pressure, pulse, or respiration rate, as directed by medical or nursing staff.
- Remind patients to take medications or nutritional supplements.
- Restock patient rooms with personal hygiene items, such as towels, washcloths, soap, or toilet paper.
- Supply, collect, or empty bedpans.
- Turn or reposition bedridden patients.
- Undress, wash, and dress patients who are unable to do so for themselves.
- Wash, groom, shave, or drape patients to prepare them for surgery, treatment, or examination.
- Exercise patients who are comatose, paralyzed, or have restricted mobility.
- Provide information such as directions, visiting hours, or patient status information to visitors or callers.
- Lift or assist others to lift patients to move them on or off beds, examination tables, surgical tables, or stretchers.
PATIENT OBSERVATION ASSISTANT
TOUCH POINT
01.2022 - 06.2022
- OBSERVING PATIENTS UNDER BAKER ACT.
- OBSERVING PATIENTS FOR THEIR SAFETY.
- ASSISTING WITH THE PATIENTS BEING SURE TO CONTACT THE NURSE IF NEED BE.
- CHARTING FOR BAKER ACT PATIENTS EVERY 15 MINUTES LIKE WHAT THEY ARE DOING.
- CHARTING FOR PATIENTS FOR THEIR SAFETY EVERY 30 MINUTES ON WHAT THEY ARE DOING EVERY HALF HOUR.
- CLEANING UP THREE AREAS AND BE SURE THE PATIENT DON’T HARM THEMSELVES OR OTHERS IN ANY WAY.
OFFICE MANAGER/ BONDSMAN
BILLY CLARK BAIL BONDS
03.2016 - 01.2022
- HIGH CALL VOLUMES
- CUSTOMER SERVICE
- HR PAPERWORK
- SCHEDULING OF EMPLOYEES
- DISTRIBUTING OUT DUTIES FOR THE DAY
- ASSISTING IN GETTING CLIENTS OUT OF JAIL
- DETERMINING IF A BOND IS A GOOD BOND TO GET SOMEONE OUT OF JAIL
- TAKING CARE OF MOTIONS TO THE CLERK OFFICE
- MAKING COLLECTION CALLS.
- TAKING PAYMENTS.
- MANAGING OFFICE.
- FILING PAPERWORK.
- ARRESTING PEOPLE WHO DOESN’T GO TO COURT.
TEACHER
COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM
07.2013 - 03.2016
- Establish and enforce rules for behavior, and procedures for maintaining order.
- Organize and lead activities designed to promote physical, mental and social development, such as games, arts and crafts, music, storytelling, and field trips.
- Teach basic skills such as color, shape, number and letter recognition, personal hygiene, and social skills.
- Observe and evaluate children’s performance, behavior, social development, and physical health.
- Read books to entire classes or to small groups.
- Attend to children’s basic needs by feeding them, dressing them, and changing their diapers.
- Provide a variety of materials and resources for children to explore, manipulate and use, both in learning activities and in imaginative play.
- Assimilate arriving children to the school environment by greeting them, helping them remove outerwear, and selecting activities of interest to them.
- Serve meals and snacks in accordance with nutritional guidelines.
- Teach proper eating habits and personal hygiene.
- Prepare materials and classrooms for class activities.
- Enforce all administration policies and rules governing students.
- Supervise, evaluate, and plan assignments for teacher assistants and volunteers.
- Perform administrative duties such as hall and cafeteria monitoring, and bus loading and unloading.
- Prepare and implement remedial programs for students requiring extra help.
- Administer tests to help determine children’s developmental levels, needs, and potential.
- Provide disabled students with assistive devices, supportive technology, and assistance accessing facilities such as restrooms.
- Select, store, order, issue, and inventory classroom equipment, materials, and supplies.
- Attend staff meetings, and serve on committees as required.
- Plan and supervise class projects, field trips, visits by guests, or other experiential activities, and guide students in learning from those activities.
- Identify children showing signs of emotional, developmental, or health-related problems, and discuss them with supervisors, parents or guardians, and child development specialists.
- Establish clear objectives for all lessons, units, and projects, and communicate those objectives to children.
- Meet with parents and guardians to discuss their children’s progress and needs, determine their priorities for their children, and suggest ways that they can promote learning and development.
- Adapt teaching methods and instructional materials to meet students’ varying needs and interests.
- Arrange indoor and outdoor space to facilitate creative play, motor-skill activities, and safety.
- Plan and conduct activities for a balanced program of instruction, demonstration, and work time that provides students with opportunities to observe, question, and investigate.
- Maintain accurate and complete student records as required by laws, district policies, and administrative regulations.
- Demonstrate activities to children.
- Meet with other professionals to discuss individual students’ needs and progress.
- Confer with other staff members to plan and schedule lessons promoting learning, following approved curricula.
- Organize and label materials, and display students’ work in a manner appropriate for their ages and perceptual skills.
- Attend professional meetings, educational conferences, and teacher training workshops to maintain and improve professional competence.
- Prepare reports on students and activities as required by administration.
- Collaborate with other teachers and administrators in the development, evaluation, and revision of preschool programs.
CERTIFIED NURSING ASSISTANT
SOUTHEAST EMPLOYEE LEASING
04.2010 - 03.2015
- Answer patient call signals, signal lights, bells, or intercom systems to determine patients’ needs.
- Apply clean dressings, slings, stockings, or support bandages, under direction of nurse or physician.
- Assist nurses or physicians in the operation of medical equipment or provision of patient care.
- Change bed linens or make beds.
- Clean and sanitize patient rooms, bathrooms, examination rooms, or other patient areas.
- Communicate with patients to ascertain feelings or need for assistance or social and emotional support.
- Document or otherwise report observations of patient behavior, complaints, or physical symptoms to nurses.
- Feed patients or assist patients to eat or drink.
- Measure and record food and liquid intake or urinary and fecal output, reporting changes to medical or nursing staff.
- Gather information from caregivers, nurses, or physicians about patient condition, treatment plans, or appropriate activities.
- Lift or assist others to lift patients to move them on or off beds, examination tables, surgical tables, or stretchers.
- Exercise patients who are comatose, paralyzed, or have restricted mobility.
- Wash, groom, shave, or drape patients to prepare them for surgery, treatment, or examination.
- Undress, wash, and dress patients who are unable to do so for themselves.
- Turn or reposition bedridden patients.
- Transport patients to treatment units, testing units, operating rooms, or other areas, using wheelchairs, stretchers, or moveable beds.
- Supply, collect, or empty bedpans.
- Review patients’ dietary restrictions, food allergies, and preferences to ensure patient receives appropriate diet.
- Restock patient rooms with personal hygiene items, such as towels, washcloths, soap, or toilet paper.
- Record vital signs, such as temperature, blood pressure, pulse, or respiration rate, as directed by medical or nursing staff.
- Record height or weight of patients.
- Provide physical support to assist patients to perform daily living activities, such as getting out of bed, bathing, dressing, using the toilet, standing, walking, or exercising.
- Observe or examine patients to detect symptoms that may require medical attention, such as bruises, open wounds, or blood in urine.
- Prepare or serve food trays.
CHILDCARE ASSISTANT
PLAY TYME DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER
09.2005 - 08.2013
- Maintain a safe play environment.
- Dress children and change diapers.
- Observe and monitor children’s play activities.
- Communicate with children’s parents or guardians about daily activities, behaviors, and related issues.
- Sanitize toys and play equipment.
- Keep records on individual children, including daily observations and information about activities, meals served, and medications administered.
- Support children’s emotional and social development, encouraging understanding of others and positive self-concepts.
- Identify signs of emotional or developmental problems in children and bring them to parents’ or guardians’ attention.
- Assist in preparing food and serving meals and refreshments to children.
- Instruct children in health and personal habits, such as eating, resting, and toilet habits.
- Create developmentally appropriate lesson plans.
- Read to children and teach them simple painting, drawing, handicrafts, and songs.
- Discipline children and recommend or initiate other measures to control behavior, such as caring for own clothing and picking up toys and books.
- Regulate children’s rest periods.
- Perform general administrative tasks, such as taking attendance, editing internal paperwork, and making phone calls.
- Perform housekeeping duties, such as laundry, cleaning, dish washing, and changing of linens.
- Organize and store toys and materials to ensure order in activity areas.
- Organize and participate in recreational activities and outings, such as games and field trips.
- Provide care for mentally disturbed, delinquent, or handicapped children.
- Care for children in institutional setting, such as group homes, nursery schools, private businesses, or schools for the handicapped.
- Operate in-house day-care centers within businesses.
- Perform general personnel functions, such as supervision, training, and scheduling.
- Help children with homework and school work.
- Sterilize bottles and prepare formulas.
- Accompany children to and from school, on outings, and to medical appointments.
CERTIFIED NURSING ASSISTANT
BAYBREEZE NURSING HOME
06.1997 - 05.2005
- Answer patient call signals, signal lights, bells, or intercom systems to determine patients’ needs.
- Apply clean dressings, slings, stockings, or support bandages, under direction of nurse or physician.
- Assist nurses or physicians in the operation of medical equipment or provision of patient care.
- Change bed linens or make beds.
- Clean and sanitize patient rooms, bathrooms, examination rooms, or other patient areas.
- Communicate with patients to ascertain feelings or need for assistance or social and emotional support.
- Document or otherwise report observations of patient behavior, complaints, or physical symptoms to nurses.
- Feed patients or assist patients to eat or drink.
- Gather information from caregivers, nurses, or physicians about patient condition, treatment plans, or appropriate activities.
- Measure and record food and liquid intake or urinary and fecal output, reporting changes to medical or nursing staff.
- Observe or examine patients to detect symptoms that may require medical attention, such as bruises, open wounds, or blood in urine.
- Prepare or serve food trays.
- Provide physical support to assist patients to perform daily living activities, such as getting out of bed, bathing, dressing, using the toilet, standing, walking, or exercising.
- Record height or weight of patients.
- Record vital signs, such as temperature, blood pressure, pulse, or respiration rate, as directed by medical or nursing staff.
- Remind patients to take medications or nutritional supplements.
- Restock patient rooms with personal hygiene items, such as towels, washcloths, soap, or toilet paper.
- Review patients’ dietary restrictions, food allergies, and preferences to ensure patient receives appropriate diet.
- Supply, collect, or empty bedpans.
- Transport patients to treatment units, testing units, operating rooms, or other areas, using wheelchairs, stretchers, or moveable beds.
- Turn or reposition bedridden patients.
- Undress, wash, and dress patients who are unable to do so for themselves.
- Wash, groom, shave, or drape patients to prepare them for surgery, treatment, or examination.
- Exercise patients who are comatose, paralyzed, or have restricted mobility.
- Lift or assist others to lift patients to move them on or off beds, examination tables, surgical tables, or stretchers.
- Provide information such as directions, visiting hours, or patient status information to visitors or callers.
Education
BAIL In BONDSMAN ISURANCE - undefined
FLORIDA BAIL BOND ACADEMY INC
Pensacola, FL11.2018
INS 3 In INSURANCE AND BONDING -
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL11.2016
CDA In CHILDCARE - undefined
PENSACOLA STATE
Pensacola, FL12.2011
NURSING ASSISTANT In CNA - undefined
LOCKLIN VOCATIONAL TECH
Milton, Florida08.1996
Skills
Time management
Certification
- BAILBONDS LICENSE
- NOTARY
- CERTIFIED NURSING ASSISTANT LICENSE IN FLORIDA, IOWA, MAINE, MISSOURI, OKLAHOMA, PENNSYLVANIA, AND WEST VIRGINIA
- CHILD DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANT (CDA)
Timeline
CNA
Bay Breeze Nursing and Rehabilitation
04.2025 - Current
CNA
Career Staff
02.2023 - Current
CNA
SHIFTKEY
01.2022 - Current
PATIENT OBSERVATION ASSISTANT
TOUCH POINT
01.2022 - 06.2022
OFFICE MANAGER/ BONDSMAN
BILLY CLARK BAIL BONDS
03.2016 - 01.2022
TEACHER
COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM
07.2013 - 03.2016
CERTIFIED NURSING ASSISTANT
SOUTHEAST EMPLOYEE LEASING
04.2010 - 03.2015
CHILDCARE ASSISTANT
PLAY TYME DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER
09.2005 - 08.2013
CERTIFIED NURSING ASSISTANT
BAYBREEZE NURSING HOME
06.1997 - 05.2005
BAIL In BONDSMAN ISURANCE - undefined
FLORIDA BAIL BOND ACADEMY INC
CDA In CHILDCARE - undefined
PENSACOLA STATE
NURSING ASSISTANT In CNA - undefined
LOCKLIN VOCATIONAL TECH
INS 3 In INSURANCE AND BONDING -
University of Florida