Nestoria Sanders
Naperville,IL
Summary
Compassionate Certified Nursing Assistant diligent about serving patient's medical and personal needs. Focused on delivering high-quality care to individuals from diverse backgrounds. Dedicated to protecting patient safety and promoting satisfaction with facility services. Kind and energetic professional with outstanding bedside manner and charting abilities.
Overview
28
28
years of professional experience
Work History
Certified Nursing Assistant
Rehab Without Walls
Downers Grove, Illinois
01.2017 - Current
- Supported neurorehabilitation care plans for Rehab Without Walls clients
- Assisted patients with bathing, dressing, grooming, and toileting
- Monitored vital signs and communicated changes to nursing staff to ensure timely interventions
- Transferred clients using gait belts, lifts, and safe body mechanics
- Documented daily care in rehabilitation records and charts
- Promoted mobility during community reintegration and therapy sessions to support patient recovery
- Maintained clean, safe environments for client recovery
- Communicated client needs with therapists, nurses, and families
- Answered call lights promptly and responded to patient needs accordingly.
- Observed and reported unusual symptoms and changes to charge nurse.
- Served meals to patients in their rooms and assisted with feeding when needed.
- Turned and repositioned residents using proper body mechanics to prevent pressure ulcers.
- Coordinated activities of daily living, personal hygiene management, feeding, and ambulation to enhance patient well-being.
- Responded quickly to emergency situations involving sudden illness or injury.
- Helped residents walk with or without self-help devices.
- Assisted with ambulation of patients utilizing appropriate equipment safely.
Patient Care Technician/Laboratory Phlebotomist
Central DuPage Hospital
Winfield, Illinois
04.1998 - 02.2026
- Assisted Central DuPage Hospital nurses with direct patient care and comfort
- Provided direct patient care and assistance to healthcare team members.
- Monitored patient conditions and reported changes to nursing staff
- Measured vital signs and documented patient data in hospital records
- Transferred patients safely using wheelchairs, stretchers, and lift equipment
- Assisted with patient admissions, discharges and transfers.
- Assisted with patient transfers from bed to wheelchair or stretcher as needed.
- Collected specimens and prepared samples for laboratory testing
- Conducted safety rounds regularly to ensure safe environment for patients.
- Observed changes in patient's conditions and reported any abnormalities to the RN on duty.
- Responded quickly in emergency situations by providing appropriate first aid measures.
- Helped create a safe environment by following infection control policies.
- Maintained clean rooms, stocked supplies, and organized care areas
- Communicated calmly with patients, families, and hospital team members
- Answered call lights promptly and responded appropriately to requests from patients, families, staff members.
Education
Lucy Flower Vocational High School
Chicago , ILSkills
- Direct patient care
- Vital signs
- Recording vital signs
- Collecting vital signs
- Vital sign recording
- Blood glucose testing
- Phlebotomy procedures
- Specimen collection
- Patient transfer
- Patient transfer methods
- Mobility assistance
- Ambulation assistance
- Positioning patients
- Toileting assistance
- Bathing assistance
- Feeding assistance
- Activities of daily living
- Clinical judgment
- Condition monitoring
- Infection control
- Safety rounds
- Documentation skills
- EHR charting
- Basic life support
- Time management
- Problem solving
- Team collaboration
- Effective communication
- Calm under pressure
- Quick problem solver
- Trustworthy companion
- Compassionate
- Healthcare ethics
- Inpatient care
- Restraint application
- Conducting intakes
- Monitoring fluids
- Basic life support
- Quick problem solver
- Vital sign recording
Timeline
Certified Nursing Assistant
Rehab Without Walls
01.2017 - Current
Patient Care Technician/Laboratory Phlebotomist
Central DuPage Hospital
04.1998 - 02.2026
Lucy Flower Vocational High School