Reno Aguinaldo LVN
Palm Springs,CA
Summary
Fully credentialed Licensed Vocational Nurse equipped with 10 years of experience serving patients in a in-home settings. Providing compassionate and exceptional care to the developmentally disabled and medically fragile. I’ve received high levels of patient and colleague satisfaction for my work and professionalism. I possess excellent communication, teaching, and mentoring skills. I am focused on providing quality care and maintaining direct lines of communication with patients and their health-care team. Current and in good standing LVN license, certified RCFE administrator, CPR and first aid certified, and extensive knowledge of clinical and patient practices and its guidelines.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Health Wellness Administrator
AMPM Comfort Care Inc.
06.2023 - 09.2025
- Operated as administrator/manager in two 6 bed RCFE homes in the Coachella Valley.
- Carefully interviewed and assisted families looking for placement in our RCFE.
- Maintained personnel records and updated internal databases to support document management.
- Evaluated customer needs and feedback to drive product and service improvements.
- Generated reports detailing findings and recommendations.
- Proven ability to learn quickly and adapt to new situations.
- Assisted with day-to-day operations, working efficiently and productively with all team members.
- Worked flexible hours across night, weekend, and holiday shifts.
- Used critical thinking to break down problems, evaluate solutions and make decisions.
- De-escalated and resolved customer complaints with punctual, polite and professional service.
- Enhanced staff performance through ongoing training, mentoring, and regular feedback sessions.
- Oversaw daily operations, ensuring smooth workflow among departments in the assisted living community.
- Improved resident satisfaction by implementing personalized care plans and coordinating with staff to ensure consistent delivery of services.
- Created a welcoming atmosphere in the facility by overseeing aesthetic improvements and maintaining cleanliness standards throughout common areas.
- Evaluated resident feedback regularly to identify opportunities for improvement within the facility''s offerings.
- Recruited hired, and trained dedicated staff members who were committed to providing exceptional resident care.
- Increased occupancy rates by conducting community outreach events and fostering relationships with local healthcare providers.
- Developed strong relationships with residents'' families, addressing their concerns promptly and providing updates on their loved ones'' wellbeing.
- Established and maintained effective communication with staff, physicians and community organizations to promote high quality patient care.
- Ordered all pharmacy supplies and kept check on inventory levels.
- Successfully negotiated client contract renewals to create increased revenue.
- Assisted and trained staff with medication management for our residents.
Licensed Vocational Nurse
New Start Home Health Care
06.2018 - 08.2023
- Delivered in home services to spinal cord injury patients, requiring total care. Quadriplegic and Paraplegic care. Ventilator and Tracheostomy care. G-tube site care and feeding. Wound Care. Patient and Family teaching.
- Observe patients, charting and reporting changes in patients’ conditions, such as adverse reactions to medication or treatment, and taking any necessary action.
- Provide basic patient care or treatments, such as taking temperatures or blood pressures, dressing wounds, treating bedsores, giving enemas or douches, rubbing with alcohol, massaging, or performing catheterizations.
- Answer patients’ calls and determine how to assist them.
- Work as part of a healthcare team to assess patient needs, plan and modify care, and implement interventions.
- Provide medical treatment or personal care to patients in private home settings, such as cooking, keeping rooms orderly, seeing that patients are comfortable and in good spirits, or instructing family members in simple nursing tasks.
- Help patients with bathing, dressing, maintaining personal hygiene, moving in bed, or standing and walking.
- Maintain records of patient care, condition, progress, or problems to report and discuss observations with supervisor or case manager.
- Administer prescribed oral medications, under the written direction of physician or as directed by home care nurse or aide, and ensure patients take their medicine.
- Check patient’s pulse, temperature, and respiration.
- Provide patients with help moving in and out of beds, baths, wheelchairs, or automobiles and with dressing and grooming.
- Care for patients by changing bed linens, washing and ironing laundry, cleaning, or assisting with their personal care.
- Accompany clients to doctors’ offices or on other trips outside the home, providing transportation, assistance, and companionship.
- Direct patients in simple prescribed exercises or in the use of braces or artificial limbs.
- Provide patients and families with emotional support and instruction in areas such as caring for infants, preparing healthy meals, living independently, or adapting to disability or illness.
- Entertain, converse with, or read aloud to patients to keep them mentally healthy and alert.
- Perform a variety of duties as requested by client, such as obtaining household supplies or running errands.
- Care for children who are disabled or who have sick or disabled parents.
- Change dressings.
Licensed Vocational Nurse
American United Home care
01.2015 - 06.2017
- Delivered in home services. Ventilator and Tracheostomy care. G-tube site care and feeding. Wound Care. Patient and Family teaching.
- Maintain records of patient care, condition, progress, or problems to report and discuss observations with supervisor or case manager.
- Administer prescribed oral medications, under the written direction of physician or as directed by home care nurse or aide, and ensure patients take their medicine.
- Check patient’s pulse, temperature, and respiration.
- Provide patients with help moving in and out of beds, baths, wheelchairs, or automobiles and with dressing and grooming.
Retail Supervisor
Universal Studios
06.2011 - 06.2014
- Motivated and supervised a staff of 20 or more
- Developed new visuals and demographics for the work environment
- Trained individuals coming into a new work environment
- Retail and Customer service
- Cash Management
- Inventory control
- Managed multiple retail venues in a high capacity theme park
Education
Licensed Vocational Nurse degree - Licensed Vocational Nurse
American Career College
Los Angeles, CA07.2015
Skills
- Customer service and support
- Data entry and recordkeeping
- Attention to detail
- Vital signs monitoring
- Home safety evaluation
- Catheter and wound care
- Clinical documentation
- Geriatric and end-of-life care
- Tracheostomy care
- Family education and communication
- Direct patient care
- HIPAA compliance
- Verbal and written communication
- Compassionate caregiving
- Patient assessments and pain management
- Medication dispensing and administration
- Infection control practices
- ADL assistance and fall prevention
- Staff supervision, direction, and training
- Palliative care and case management
- Charting and recording practices
- Counting narcotics accurately
- Patient companionship and advocacy
- Medication administration
Certification
Licensed Vocational Nurse #290138
Certified RCFE Administrator #6069321740
Timeline
Health Wellness Administrator
AMPM Comfort Care Inc.
06.2023 - 09.2025
Licensed Vocational Nurse
New Start Home Health Care
06.2018 - 08.2023
Licensed Vocational Nurse
American United Home care
01.2015 - 06.2017
Retail Supervisor
Universal Studios
06.2011 - 06.2014
Licensed Vocational Nurse degree - Licensed Vocational Nurse
American Career College
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