Mercedes Dees
Sacramento,CA
Summary
Diligent Caregiver focused on providing optimal support to clients through personalized assistance and care required to manage diverse medical conditions. Proficient in organizing medications, doctor appointments and personal activities. Caring, organized and friendly with excellent interpersonal skills.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
Work History
Hospice Aid
Sutter Care at home Roseville Hospice
02.2017 - Current
- Communicate with clients and family to help understand what we offer as a company and my duties as a hospice aid
- Assist clients in bed baths/showers
- Help or remind patients with their ADL's
- Reposition and transfer the patient to and from to bed or wheelchair
- Create a relaxing environment when bathing , examples are putting on music, low lighting and privacy
- Providing skin care
- Asking family or care staff with any concerns to communicate to nurse
- Documenting patients care
- Emailing the nurse or care team of any skin issues, pain , and family or care staff concerns
- Communicating and listening to patient concerns or how they are feeling emotionally.
Hospice Aid
Bristol Hospice
- Helping patients with bed baths/ shower
- Assist patients in ADLs
- Help with mouth care/dentures and nails
- Communicate with email patient condition, skin care/ wound, and decline
- Have Namaste for patient, which is soothing music, candles and aroma, with relaxation and lotion after their bed baths or showers
- Transfers with wheel chair and bed/ walkers.
Home Care Assistant
All of you Home Care
- Bathroom usages every two hours; changing depends and peri care
- Transferring clients to and from to wheel chair
- Making bed for both clients
- Light housekeeping; kitchen, bathrooms, and light dusting
- Assisting with shower for both residents
- Interacting with activities and socializing with clients
- Personal care: mouth care, nail care, hair care, and lotion care
- Taking vitals Blood pressure, heart rate, respirations
- Helping client rotate on bed every two hours
- Meal preparation.
Senior Care Assistant
A Step Ahead senior care
- Meal preparation
- Light housekeeping
- Help transfers to and from chair
- Toileting; changing briefs, taking client every two hours to restroom and or emptying catheter
- Bed making
- Laundry; doing laundry and folding and putting it away
- Showers/bed baths
- Communication; talking to client or playing in activities cards, chess, etc
- Medication reminders
- Perineal care.
Companion
Maxim Companion services
- Supervision with adult or children
- I prepare healthy meals, breakfast, lunch and or dinners
- Reminder on water /fluids
- Showers/baths
- Medication reminders
- Playing activities with client Legos, toys, etc
- I fold laundry or put away
- Bed making/ make sure comfortable for them.
Home Health Aide
Harmony Home Health
- I did laundry for client which included putting it washer, dryer, and fold it
- Kitchen clean up for client, which included washing dishes
- Cleaning the counters, sweeping, mopping floors
- I only gave medication reminders
- I also did bed making for client
- Helped in transfers up and down the stairs
- I also helped client with showers
- Meal preparation, cooking for client
- Talked to client for his/her company just listened to views and thoughts.
In Home Support Services
- I interacted with resident when needed some company or just an ear to listen
- Made sure resident ate three meals a day and followed her diet
- Made sure client was comfortable
- Drove or made sure she got on transportation to go to appointments
- Made appointments for client
- I went grocery shopping with resident and assisted with groceries
- Did all household chores cleaned dishes, mopped floors, sanitized bathroom, wiped dressers, coffee tables, and vacuumed the house
- When resident moved helped with making her feel at home had medication, and other housing products.
Participant Care Assistant
Sutter Senior Care
02.2017
- Help participants with ADLs with going to the center
- Assist in meds
- Assist in meal prep
- Transfers to wheelchair and bed
- Communicate to clinic, nurses about the patient and their care
- Also communicate on if low on meds, shortage of food and well being of house
- Communicate to non-responders and emergency in case an emergency situation
- Safety checks
- Communicate through email of participants care plan, decline or progressing
- Assist with bed baths/showers
- Light housekeeping/ laundry
- Fall reports is patient falls or any injuries
- Mouth care/nail care/ denture care
- Peri care.
Daycare Assistant
R kids Come First Daycare
08.2008 - 07.2014
- Prepare meals and snacks for children
- Entertained and engaged with kids in various learning activities
- Monitored kids safety and well being at all times.
Mini Dessert Prep/Pantry
Seasons 52
01.2012 - 12.2013
- Prep turkey Rolls, which include; lavosh, cheese spread, turkey, sliced tomatoes, and a little avocado around 8 to 10 a day
- Prep spring rolls, those include vegetable mix and lobster and shrimp mix
- I make about 20 to 30 a day
- Make white rice for the tuna roll
- Prep mini dessert fruit and about seven other kinds of mini desserts a day that add up around 500 desserts
- The seven kinds of desserts are pecan, German chocolate or carrot cake, cannoli, Meyer, mocha macchiato, peanut butter, and Rocky road
- Depending on the season the mini desserts change
- I also help pantry prep the vegetables and fruit for each of the salads
- When it gets busy on the line I also help pantry get the salads, tuna rolls, ceviche, or summer slaw out to the customers liking
- If am done with my prep list early I also help prep with meat or vegetable prep list.
Night crew closer
Five Guys Burgers and Fries
01.2010 - 11.2012
Sales Associate
Pier 1 Imports
10.2010 - 06.2011
Education
Degree in Adminstrative Assistant -
Ashworth college
01.2023
High School Diploma -
Charles A. Jones Career and Education Center
Sacramento, CA01.2009
Skills
- Ethical behavior
- Medical Terminology
- Catheter Care
- Attention to Detail
- First Aid/CPR
- Data Entry
- Multitasking Abilities
References
References at request
Timeline
Participant Care Assistant
Sutter Senior Care
02.2017
Hospice Aid
Sutter Care at home Roseville Hospice
02.2017 - Current
Mini Dessert Prep/Pantry
Seasons 52
01.2012 - 12.2013
Sales Associate
Pier 1 Imports
10.2010 - 06.2011
Night crew closer
Five Guys Burgers and Fries
01.2010 - 11.2012
Daycare Assistant
R kids Come First Daycare
08.2008 - 07.2014
Hospice Aid
Bristol Hospice
Home Care Assistant
All of you Home Care
Senior Care Assistant
A Step Ahead senior care
Companion
Maxim Companion services
Home Health Aide
Harmony Home Health
In Home Support Services
Degree in Adminstrative Assistant -
Ashworth college
High School Diploma -
Charles A. Jones Career and Education Center
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