Leticia Holland
Worcester,MA
Summary
Adept CNA with proven expertise in patient care and vital signs monitoring, honed at Saint Vincent's Hospital. Excels in compassionate communication and emergency response, significantly enhancing patient wellness. Demonstrates a strong commitment to maintaining confidentiality and infection control practices, ensuring high standards of care.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
CNA
Saint Vincent's Hospital
Worcester, MA
06.2023 - Current
- Turned and repositioned residents using proper body mechanics to prevent pressure ulcers.
- Managed and maintained patient rooms, shared-living areas and nursing stations.
- Kept medical supply room and patient rooms stocked with necessary supplies, equipment and instruments.
- Helped residents walk with or without self-help devices.
- Transported specimens, laboratory items or pharmacy items, verifying proper documentation and delivery to authorized personnel.
- Measured and recorded food and liquid intake and output, reporting changes to medical or nursing staff.
- Provided direct patient care, including bathing and dressing patients.
- Assisted nurses with treatments such as enemas, douches or catheterizations per physician orders.
- Documented information in patient charts and communicated status updates to interdisciplinary care team.
- Answered signal lights, bells or intercom systems to determine resident needs.
- Fostered relationships with patients, caregivers and healthcare teams to achieve individual care plan targets.
- Assisted patients with shaving, bathing and oral hygiene to promote healthy habits and overall wellness.
- Monitored vital signs such as pulse rate, respiration rate, and blood pressure.
- Performed vital sign assessments, such as taking blood pressure and temperature.
- Assisted with lifting patients to move on or off beds, examination tables and surgical tables.
- Assisted nurses with wound care for pressure ulcers, bed sores and surgical site wounds.
- Assisted patients in ambulation and transfers using proper body mechanics.
- Documented patient care services by charting in designated areas.
- Documented activities and recorded information in EMR system.
CNA
Coleman House
Northborough, MA
09.2020 - 06.2023
- Notified senior staff of patient emergencies to optimize outcomes.
- Kept instruments and equipment clean and sanitized.
- Exercised comatose and paralyzed patients to reduce delirium and improve physical function.
- Turned and repositioned residents using proper body mechanics to prevent pressure ulcers.
- Managed and maintained patient rooms, shared-living areas and nursing stations.
- Kept medical supply room and patient rooms stocked with necessary supplies, equipment and instruments.
- Approached customers and engaged in conversation through use of effective interpersonal and people skills.
- Performed minor housekeeping tasks to keep patient areas clean and sanitized.
Education
High School Diploma -
North High School
Worcester, MA06-1995
Skills
- Conflict resolution
- Maintaining confidentiality
- Feeding assistance
- Compassionate communication
- Cultural sensitivity
- Toileting assistance
- Vital signs monitoring
- Patient transfers
- Infection control practices
- Critical thinking
- Lifting and transferring
- Dressing assistance
- End-of-life care
- Emergency response
- HIPAA compliance
- Patient hygiene assistance
Certification
Nursing Assistant Certificate 1/2027
Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation 2/2025
First Aid 2/2025
Timeline
CNA
Saint Vincent's Hospital
06.2023 - Current
CNA
Coleman House
09.2020 - 06.2023
High School Diploma -
North High School
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