
Effective and knowledgeable Healthcare provider experienced in treating and caring for patients. Successful in providing fast and accurate assessments and working calmly under pressure. Recognized for collaborating well with clients, patients, residents and families to maintain top-notch healthcare practices.
While employed with this company my duties were to provide personal ADL care for the residents due to their medical including psych impairments under the direct order of a RN. Many of the pts. had from mild to severe behavioral tendencies including, anxiety disorders, PTSD, bipolar, BPD, schizophrenia, autism, and a spectrum of psychotic disorders. I helped with daily task and basic skills of calming the pts. due to cognitive delays and outburst. I also monitored patient behavior and reported changes to nursing staff, and I as well as documented patient care and activities in medical records.
While I was employed with this company I was specifically trained to deal with supporting needs of pts. with drug, psych and physical impairments in the underprivileged part of San Francisco, called the Tenderloin.
A part of the city where drug infested and the most vulnerable population lived and reside.
I was trained to work with ex current and rehabilitated clients. I was trained to understand signs of a hostile environment, cues of when to give space or provide comfort, needs, compassion, descalation, encouraging tactics of hope through their hopelessness by talking, having empathy, and providing services of daily care
I as well documented clients health observations and reported changes to healthcare professionals.
I worked for this company with the aging population, who just preferred to be at home for most of their care and needs and it was a light duty amount of assistance which included house work and daily living tasks, as in cooking, cleaning, laundry bathing, hygiene and grooming and personal errands as in prescription pickups, bills etc.