Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Certification
Timeline
Additional Information
Basic Life Support
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Melvin Caldwell-Kimble

Stone Mountain,GA

Summary

Experienced with providing compassionate care and support to individuals. Utilizes effective communication and problem-solving skills to enhance clients' daily living experiences. Track record of fostering safe and supportive environment through empathy and adaptability.

Overview

19
19
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Patient Safety Supporter

Children's Healthcare of Atlanta
08.2023 - 02.2025
  • Salary: 16.85 USD Per Hour
  • Hours per week: Minimum 24
  • Duties, Accomplishments, and Related Skills: Main duties include maintain constant 1:1 observation of medically unstable and mentally volatile children. Deescalate children and teens experiencing behavioral issues in order to keep the environment safe. Assists with linen change, ADLs including hygiene maintenance, and collection of patient vitals. Documentation of all observed incidences and encounters while alerting advanced medical personnel of any abnormal or emergency occurrences. Primarily assigned to very aggressive and sometimes physical patients due to maintaining a calm demeanor. When necessary anticipated items needed for procedures and obtained them from the Omnicell (medical stock supply unit).
  • Supervisor: Tracy Ellis 404-785-7615
  • Okay to contact this supervisor: It’s best to contact my Lead first, Teddy Dacius, 516-451-2328

Intermediate Care Technician

Atlanta Veterans Affairs Medical Center
04.2018 - 01.2019
  • Company Overview: This is a federal job
  • Salary: $20.82 USD Per Hour
  • Hours per week: 40
  • Series: 0640 Health Aid And Technician
  • Pay Plan: GS - General Schedule (Ch. 51, 5 U.S.C.).
  • Grade: 7
  • Duties, Accomplishments and Related Skills: Primarily assisted other healthcare providers in the emergency department (E.D.) to give excellent patient care. Collection of vital signs and routine patient diagnostic tests including 12 lead EKG, phlebotomy, peripheral IV insertions, Chem 8, Troponin I, and blood glucose testing. Transfer patients from the E.D. to differing areas of the hospital for ancillary care. Updated patients in the emergency room of waiting times and general status of the E.D. Aided in the triage of patients. Assisted in behavioral/psychiatric situations to include crisis intervention, management of aggressive or suicidal psychiatric patients, and 1:1 observation. Accurately documented interventions made in the patient electronic medical record system.
  • Supervisor: Kevin Miller 404-322-6111/207614
  • Okay to contact this Supervisor: Contact me first

Emergency Department Technician

Providence Alaska Medical Center
03.2016 - 10.2016
  • Salary: $18.02 USD Per Hour
  • Hours per week: 40
  • Duties, Accomplishments and Related Skills: My primary duty was to assist doctors, nurses and other medical personnel with providing the best quality emergency care possible to patients. Clinical duties of which I was to perform included taking and monitoring vital signs like blood pressure, pulse and temperature; collecting blood, urine, saliva and stool samples for laboratory analysis; cleaning and prepping suture wounds. Also, I would respond to “Codes” of our assigned area to provide emergency cardiopulmonary resuscitation as well as assist the rapid response teams to stabilize symptomatic patients. Assignments such as wound care, transport of patients, and splint applications (both plaster and fiberglass) were routine duties of my position. Crutch, cane, and wheel chair fitting/teaching was performed as a daily task as delegated from my superiors. In addition, I was responsible for restocking the E.D. with its various needed medical supplies as well as ensured patient comfortability while maintaining the cleanliness of the department.

Health Care Specialist

United States Army
02.2006 - 02.2010
  • Salary: $15 USD Per Hour
  • Hours per week: 40
  • Duties, Accomplishments and Related Skills: As a health care specialist in the military, my position contained many essential assignments in both the clinical and combat environment. This consisted of executing duties such as managing medical and clinical tasks as senior specialist for my team. I was accountable for those appointed under my supervision, relaying pertinent information to our physician's assistant, and maintenance of patients’ medical records. Not to exclude, that I was in charge of triage, administering medications (also immunizations), as well as assessing both subjective and objective information relative to the patient’s chief complaint. This information, along with vital signs, was accurately documented and forwarded to the patients’ respective medical records.
  • Supervisor: Keith Farr ow (254-931-2722)
  • Okay to contact this Supervisor: Contact

Education

Associates of Applied Science - Interdisciplinary Studies-Health Science Track

Georgia Piedmont Technical College
Clarkston, GA

Skills

  • FEMA courses 100,200,700, 800, and various other NIMS course completions
  • Intermediate experience using Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook I also possess experience performing internet searches, writing reports, giving presentations with visual aids, as well as sending professional emails
  • Extensive experience using various office equipment (ie fax, copy/printer, scanner, and shredding machine)
  • Military experience with a high code of ethics and integrity I believe in giving exceptional service and trust that any job I perform should be conducted with the same respects
  • Beginning June 22, 2015 until the present, I have accumulated roughly 300 volunteering hours conducted by community work experience at NineStar Enterprises My duties are relative to assisting the Work Service Specialists via admin/clerical tasks This comprises of using a multi-line phone, sending emails, routing information, greeting clients, and maintain filing systems which contained confidential information All undertakings are performed with the goal of assisting clients to achieve self-sufficiency
  • During my four year military duty, I helped organize and instruct the army Combat Life Saver (CLS) course This class was 5 days long and was taught to non-medical soldiers/ military personnel The number of students ranged from 20-40 in a given teaching period The attendees were trained to perform basic lifesavings skills as well as rudimentary emergency trauma intervention techniques
  • Completed approximately, 240 hours’ worth of CEU’s via Health stream online Basic Life Savers for healthcare professionals certification expiration 08/2025
  • Emotional support
  • Health and safety awareness
  • Housekeeping tasks
  • Daily living support

Certification

Basic Life Support

Timeline

Patient Safety Supporter

Children's Healthcare of Atlanta
08.2023 - 02.2025

Intermediate Care Technician

Atlanta Veterans Affairs Medical Center
04.2018 - 01.2019

Emergency Department Technician

Providence Alaska Medical Center
03.2016 - 10.2016

Health Care Specialist

United States Army
02.2006 - 02.2010

Associates of Applied Science - Interdisciplinary Studies-Health Science Track

Georgia Piedmont Technical College

Additional Information

  • Exceptional listener and communicator who effectively conveys information both verbally and in writing.
  • Flexible team player who can multitask while prioritizing and completing concurrent projects.
  • Excellent problem solver with the capability of working under pressure with frequent intermissions.
  • Leadership qualities necessary to efficiently answer inquiries as well as teach the public and coworkers.
  • Strong sense of altruism necessary to connect with a diverse group of individuals.
  • Completes tasks that requires significant attention to detail.
  • Possesses excellent interpersonal communication skills.
  • Currently a part time personal trainer (Unlicensed).

Basic Life Support

CPR and AED usage certified.

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