Margaret Douglas
Milwaukee,WI
Summary
Compassionate Certified Nursing Assistant with extensive experience at Southpointe Healthcare Center, skilled in vital signs monitoring and patient-focused care. Proven ability to enhance patient comfort and safety through effective communication and safety precautions, ensuring dignity and wellbeing for all patients. Dedicated to maintaining high standards of care and hygiene.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Certified Nursing Assistant
Southpointe Healthcare Center
Greendale, WI
08.2024 - 12.2025
- Assisted patients with daily living activities, ensuring comfort and dignity.
- Monitored vital signs and reported changes to nursing staff for timely intervention.
- Maintained cleanliness and organization of patient care areas to support infection control.
- Documented patient progress and care provided in electronic health records accurately.
- Provided high-quality personal care services such as bathing, grooming, dressing, and feeding to ensure patient dignity.
- Maintained a clean, safe environment by sanitizing surfaces, changing linens, and disposing of waste properly.
- Answered call lights and supported patient comfort and safety by adjusting bed rails and equipment.
Certified Nursing Assistant
Heritage Square Nursing & Rehabilitation Center
Greendale, WI
01.2024 - 08.2024
- Assisted patients with daily living activities for enhanced comfort and wellbeing.
- Improved patient care quality by monitoring and recording vital signs, fluid intake, and output.
- Promoted good oral and personal hygiene by aiding patients with shaving, bathing, and teeth brushing.
- Reduced fall incidents by implementing safety measures like bed alarms and proper positioning techniques.
- Assisted with feeding and monitored intake to help patients achieve nutritional objectives.
- Conducted regular rounds to monitor patients'' physical and mental status throughout shifts.
Certified Nursing Assistant
Nursing Centers
Brookfield, WI
01.2021 - 04.2024
- Checked patient vitals such as temperature, blood pressure, and blood sugar levels.
- Prevented pressure ulcers development through frequent turning, repositioning of patients, and diligent skin assessments.
- Performed accurate documentation of patient information according to established protocols for record-keeping purposes.
- Cared for clients with diagnoses such as respiratory failure, diabetes, Parkinson's disease and muscular dystrophy.
- Helped clean and prepare patient consultation rooms to maintain hygiene standards
- Enhanced team efficiency by promptly responding to call lights and reporting changes in patient condition to nurses.
- Assisted nurses with wound care procedures ensuring proper healing processes took place.
Education
No Degree -
Vincent High School
Brown Deer, WISkills
- Patient care
- HIPAA compliance
- Reliable team player
- Direct patient care
- Collecting vital signs
- Bathing assistance
- Compassionate
- Alzheimer's and dementia care
- Basic life support
- Bedside manner
- Vital signs monitoring
- Dressing assistance
- Safety precautions
- Recording vital signs
- Electronic charting
- Compassionate caregiver
- Patient-focused care
- Mobility assistance
- Documenting behaviors
- Feeding assistance
- Positioning patients
- End-of-life care
- Patient lifting
- Transfer techniques
- Urinary catheter care
- Ambulation assistance
- Healthcare ethics
- Inpatient care
- Geriatric care
- Responding to emergencies
- Transporting patients
- Supporting personal needs
- Maintaining privacy
- Trustworthy companion
- Colostomy care
- Feeding assistance expert
- Specimen collection
- Light housekeeping
- Blood glucose testing
- Valid state driver's license
- Reliable transportation
- Preparing meals
- Meal planning
- Pediatric care
Certification
Certified nursing assistant
Languages
English
Professional Working
Timeline
Certified Nursing Assistant
Southpointe Healthcare Center
08.2024 - 12.2025
Certified Nursing Assistant
Heritage Square Nursing & Rehabilitation Center
01.2024 - 08.2024
Certified Nursing Assistant
Nursing Centers
01.2021 - 04.2024
No Degree -
Vincent High School