Makenna Graves

Broadlawns Medical Center

2021.11 - Current

Maintained a clean and organized emergency room environment to ensure patient safety and comfort.
Help patients get to bedside commode, use a bed pan or wheel patients to the restroom.
Hourly rounding on patients.
Notify the nurse of anything the patient may need that I cant assist them with.
Ensured compliance with infection control protocols with proper hand hygiene and sanitization of equipment after use.
Provided exceptional service by maintaining a professional demeanor and exercising excellent interpersonal skills when interacting with patients and their families.
Safely transported patients by wheelchair, stretcher, or bed to other units.
Assist the nurse or physician with assignments that are within my scope of practice.
Measured and fit crutches and canes, instructing patients on proper use of support devices.
Took and recorded patients' vital signs, documenting in medical charts.
Collected urine, stool samples.
Perform venipuncture on patients, Making sure that the blood tubes as well as blood culture bottles as needed are labeled correctly.
Perform EKGS.
Run point of care test such as strep test and pregnancy test.
Stock rooms with supplies when needed.
Assists nurses with foley catheter or straight cath insertion.
Performed nose swabs to check for respiratory diseases.
Wore proper PPE when interacting with patients who have a respiratory disease.
Connect patients to the tele monitor.

Summary