Quiana Hudgins
Philadelphia,PA
Summary
Experienced with providing compassionate care and support to clients. Utilizes effective communication and empathy to enhance patient comfort and trust. Knowledge of managing daily living activities, and patient safety protocols.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Administrative Assistant
High Focus Centers
09.2025 - Current
- Coordinated scheduling and logistics for meetings and events, ensuring optimal resource allocation.
- Trained new staff on office procedures and software applications, fostering team competency and collaboration.
- Answered multi-line phone system, routing calls, delivering messages to staff and greeting visitors.
- Delivered excellent customer service through prompt responses to client inquiries, addressing concerns effectively, and building strong relationships.
- Supported executive staff through scheduling meetings, coordinating travel arrangements, and preparing crucial documents.
Home Health Aide
Here Four You Home Care
03.2023 - Current
- Helped patients maintain personal hygiene through bathing, grooming, and toileting assistance when necessary for dignity preservation.
- Maintained a clean and safe home environment for patients, reducing falls and accidents.
- Assisted clients with daily living activities, enhancing their independence and quality of life.
- Performed light housekeeping duties including laundry linen changes sweeping vacuuming and mopping ensuring a clean and organized living space for patients.
- Performed laundry, grocery shopping and other light housekeeping duties as instructed by client.
- Assisted patients with dressing, grooming and feeding needs, helping to overcome, and adapt to mobility restrictions.
- Improved patient well-being by providing compassionate and attentive personal care.
- Assisted with meal planning and preparation according to dietary restrictions, meeting nutritional needs while adhering to personal preferences.
- Completed entries in log books, journals, and care plans to accurately document and report patient progress.
- Provided mobility assistance such as walking and regular exercising.
- Traveled to clients' homes to complete healthcare services and promote continuity of care.
Office Manager
Learning Ladder ABC’s
02.2016 - Current
- Providing a safe and developmental environment
- Implementing and planning programs for the daycare
- Establish policies and procedures to maintain a constant environment
- Support and follow state and federal guidelines
- Develop and maintain relationships with parents and children
- Orchestrate day to day operations for daycare
- Staff recruitment
- Record keeping of individual children daily
Clinical Research Coordinator
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
04.2019 - 09.2025
- Assist in the recruitment and consent of parents and children
- Responsible for data collection through study participant interviews and screenings
- Analysis data using memos, coding and qualitative analytic software
- Assist in preparation of materials to submit for IRB approval
- Assist in the preparation of reports and professional research papers
- Renders age-appropriate care and services based on the patient and/or their developmental needs
- Drawing patient and family’s blood for research
- Enhanced patient experience through compassionate care and communication during blood draw procedures.
- Labeled transfer tubes and followed exact directions for handling and storing specimens for transport.
- Followed clinical research protocols and conducted study visits in compliance with ICH/GCP and FDA regulations.
- Screened patient records, databases, and physician referrals to identify prospective candidates for research studies.
- Gathered, processed, and shipped lab specimens.
- Enhanced patient safety by meticulously monitoring and documenting adverse events during clinical trials.
- Followed informed consent processes and maintained records.
- Collaborated with clinical staff and other healthcare professionals to support clinical trial data accuracy.
- Coordinated and monitored clinical trial activities to support timely and accurate completion of studies.
Mental Health Technician
Crisis Response Center Friends Hospital
05.2022 - 02.2023
- Provided direct care to the adults, older adults, and adolescents in the management of the community and the therapeutic milieu.
- Provided 1:1 contact, individual support and crisis management as needed.
- Facilitated/co-facilitated group discussions, community meetings, and therapeutic groups.
- Intake for patient admissions including searching patient’s belongings, orienting patients to the unit, providing support an encouragement, completing paperwork as necessary
- Take and document patient’s vital signs daily and as needed
- Administered timely checks on patients (Q15/Q30) and provide documentation
- Performed scheduled patient safety checks and documented results to establish patients' well-being.
- Helped patients with meals, activities of daily living (ADLs) and facility transfers to promote security and patient well-being.
- Provided crisis intervention and de-escalation techniques for patients experiencing emotional distress or exhibiting aggressive behaviors.
- Applied de-escalation and limit-setting techniques to promote patient cooperation.
- Observed patient behaviors and mental status and notified RN of unusual or potentially dangerous occurrences.
Phlebotomist
Staff Plus Agency
04.2019 - 06.2021
- Arrange daily activities based on urgency of requests for fluid samples
- Identify patients and their personal information using their ID, documents, or other means
- Find veins that are suitable for puncture
- Draw blood using sterilized needles, vials, and other equipment
- Help with blood transfusions when needed
Youth Care Worker
Saint Mary’s Villa
11.2014 - 06.2016
- Assist youth in logical decision making, which decreases counter aggression and encourages least restrictive alternatives to improve the youth’s ability to handle real life and potential crisis situations
- Supervise the milieu by providing safety, preservation of youth rights, care and treatment of youth designated for services or care in accordance with the youth’s treatment plan
Education
Associate of Science - Nursing
Community College of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PAAssociate of Science - Practical Nursing
PITC
Wyncote, PA08-2026
High School Diploma -
South Brunswick High School
North Brunswick, NJ06.2005
Skills
- Patient care
- Meal preparation
- Personal hygiene assistance
- Feeding assistance
- Vital signs monitoring
- Bathing assistance
- Housekeeping
- Dressing assistance
- Scheduling coordination
- Customer service
- Meeting logistics
- Data collection
- Crisis intervention
Certification
- CPR/First Aid
- Handle with Care
- Phlebotomist
- Fire and Safety
Timeline
Administrative Assistant
High Focus Centers
09.2025 - Current
Home Health Aide
Here Four You Home Care
03.2023 - Current
Mental Health Technician
Crisis Response Center Friends Hospital
05.2022 - 02.2023
Clinical Research Coordinator
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
04.2019 - 09.2025
Phlebotomist
Staff Plus Agency
04.2019 - 06.2021
Office Manager
Learning Ladder ABC’s
02.2016 - Current
Youth Care Worker
Saint Mary’s Villa
11.2014 - 06.2016
Associate of Science - Practical Nursing
PITC
High School Diploma -
South Brunswick High School
Associate of Science - Nursing
Community College of Philadelphia