Reanna Carr

TriStar Health – Nurse Extern / Patient Care Tech (PRN)

10/2025 – Present | Nashville, TN

• Assist nurses with patient care tasks under supervision, reinforcing nursing school fundamentals.

• Perform vital signs monitoring, intake/output measurements, and patient rounding.

• Support patients with activities of daily living, including bathing, grooming, toileting, ambulation, and feeding.

• Collect specimens and assist with diagnostic procedures as directed.

• Maintain accurate patient records and report changes in condition to nursing staff.

• Provide emotional support and ensure patient comfort and safety.

• Adhere to infection control, HIPAA, and hospital policies while collaborating with the care team.

• Trustpoint Hospital - patient care tech
• Keeping patient rooms clean and organized
• Monitoring patient health and measuring vital signs
• Maintaining accurate patient records
• Assisting the healthcare team with administering treatments
• Collecting liquid samples or specimens for testing
• Performing basic nursing procedures such as administering medications
• Reporting any changes in patients' conditions to a registered nurse or physician
• Providing emotional support and assisting patients.

• Reports changes in resident's physical condition and/or behavior, and visitors; observes and reports the health and emotional condition of each resident; and promptly reports all changes to the supervisor
• Assists residents with medication as defined in medication procedure; assists or supervises residents who self-administer medication; follows physician orders and state laws to administer medications to residents who cannot self-administer their medications; and exhibits understanding of and follows medication policies and procedures
• Assists residents with activities of daily living, including bathing, dressing, grooming, toileting, transferring and getting to and from activities and meals according to the individual service plan.

• Provide high-quality patient care
• Preserve patient dignity and minimize discomfort while carrying out duties such as bedpan changes, emptying drainage bags and bathing
• Assist residents to ambulate with gait belt
• Documentation of changes in resident's body functions/ behavior
• Aid residents with hair care, shampoo, and nail care, shaving
• Help with oral hygiene and mouth care of the unconscious/conscious patients
• Support residents with turning and positioning: supine, side-lying and use of lift sheet
• Ensured the accurate, timely flow of information by maintaining thorough patient records and updating healthcare team on patients' status
• Complied with HIPAA standards in all patient documentation and interactions.

• Hospital experience - California hospital (PATIENT CARE TECH)
• Keeping patient rooms clean and organized
• Monitoring patient health and measuring vital signs
• Maintaining accurate patient records
• Assisting the healthcare team with administering treatments
• Collecting liquid samples or specimens for testing
• Performing basic nursing procedures such as administering medications
• Reporting any changes in patients' conditions to a registered nurse or physician
• Providing emotional support and assisting patients.