LATERESE Hammond
New Haven
Summary
Reliable and service-focused healthcare professional with 20 years of experience as a CNA/PCA. I deliver high quality care with expert-level pca skills and manage a very complex adult medicine assignment. My Patience, compassion, and technical skills enable effective attendance to patients in various health care settings. Currently certified in BLS and CPR. Transitioning from a nursing facility to a Med-Surg unit allowed for serving a diverse range of patients.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
Work History
PCA
YALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL
05.2014 - Current
- Prepared patient rooms prior to their arrival
- Collected urine and fecal samples
- Assisted with adequate nutrition and fluid intake
- Positioned residents for comfort and to prevent skin pressure problems
- Assisted with transferring residents in and out of wheelchairs and adaptive equipment
- Kept facility stocked with necessary supplies, equipment and instruments
- Obtained and set up suction equipment
- Tended to patients with chronic illnesses
- Assisted nurses with cleaning rectal tube, G-tube, J-tube, and regular catheter insertion
- Exhibited compassionate care and communication with regard to issues of death and dying
- Sensitive to the needs of geriatric patients
- Promoted personal and co-worker safety
- Participated in the maintenance of safe conditions within the facility and other related areas
- Maintained a clean, orderly and well-stocked environment
- Performing EKG testing, Drawing Blood, Bathing, Walking, and feeding Patients
CNA
Guilford House
03.2014 - 02.2014
- Read and recorded temperature, pulse and respiration
- Assisted with adequate nutrition and fluid intake
- Planned, prepared and served meals and snacks according to prescribed diets
- Directed patients in prescribed range of motion exercises and in the use of braces or artificial limbs
- Cleaned and organized patients' living quarters
- Positioned residents for comfort and to prevent skin pressure problems
- Assisted with transferring residents in and out of wheelchairs and adaptive equipment
- Kept facility stocked with necessary supplies, equipment and instruments
- Tended to patients with chronic illnesses
- Charted daily information on the residents such as mood changes, mobility activity, eating percentages, and daily inputs and outputs
- Recognized and reported abnormalities and/or changes in patients' health status to nursing staff
- Documented resident records on daily flow sheets
- Assisted with ADLs
- Comforted patients and provided them with reassurance and encouragement
Education
Diploma - Practical Nursing
Porter&Chester Institute
Hamden, CT01.2021
High School Diploma - undefined
ELI WHITNEY TECH
HAMDEN, CT01.2001
Skills
- Patient Care & Safety
- Electronic Charting
- Vital signs & patient Monitoring
- Privacy/ HIPAA Regulations
- Peripheral phlebotomy
- SRC Heartcode Skills
- EKG Testing
- Assist with toileting
- Transferring/lifting
- Bathing/Dressing/Hair,Nail,Skin Care
- Communication Skills
- Recording I&O,s
- Knowledge of Special Diets
- Range of Motion exercises
- Catheter Care
- General housekeeping ability
Accomplishments
Recently advanced to PCA II and also joined the skin prevalence team. Where we focus on preventing and managing skin breakdown in patients by actively monitoring their skin health.
Certification
- CNA License
- CPR Certification
- CT. Department of Health Certification
- Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification, Current
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