Sophia De Lain
Summary
Certified Nursing Assistant with experience working in fast-paced environment handling confidential paperwork, and providing quality patient care. Established record reliability and creating positive rapport with patients, family, and staff. Experience serving chronically ill patients, including assisting with daily living activities and household tasks. Patient and highly compassionate. Energetic Healthcare professional dedicated to providing top-quality, patient-centered care. Highly skilled in addressing acute and chronic conditions. Resourceful navigation of complex healthcare environments to optimize patient care.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
Work History
Patient Care Technician
NYC Health and Hospitals
Manhattan, NY
06.2023 - Current
- Notified senior staff of patient emergencies to optimize outcomes.
- Communicated with patients to determine feelings, need for assistance or social and emotional support.
- Performed minor housekeeping tasks to keep patient areas clean and sanitized.
- Supported daily living activities by serving meals, feeding, ambulating and turning over and positioning patients.
- Observed changes in patient's conditions and reported any abnormalities to the RN on duty.
- Kept medical supply room and patient rooms stocked with necessary supplies, equipment and instruments.
- Answered call lights promptly and responded appropriately to requests from patients, families, staff members.
- Assisted with patient transfers from bed to wheelchair or strher as needed.
- Ensured that all medical equipment was properly maintained and sterilized.
- Provided direct patient care and assistance to healthcare team members.
- Shaved and draped patients to prepare for surgery, treatment or examination.
- Assisted in preparing patients for examinations and treatments, including vital signs monitoring.
- Kept instruments and equipment clean and sanitized.
- Documented patient intake and dietary requirements and aided with feeding and monitoring.
- Measured and recorded food and liquid intake and output, reporting changes to medical or nursing staff.
- Helped create a safe environment by following infection control policies.
Certified Nursing Assistant
Threelinks Care Center
Northcutt, MN
02.2022 - 06.2024
- Assistant patients with activity of daily living, including but not limited to bathing, dressing, mouth care, ambulating, grooming, and cleaning
- Provide hands on care for residents on an 8 or 16-hour shift
- Documents patient’s progress and maintain accurate charting
- Work well with nursing staff.
Certified Nursing Assistant
Select Specialty Hospital
Orlando, FL
02.2020 - 01.2021
- Provided hands on care for patients on a 12-hour shift
- Worked as a team alongside highly skilled nurses and respiratory technicians
- Performed activities of daily living which includes bathing, grooming, dressing, eating, and exercising
- Assisted the medical staff with medical staff like taking blood, monitoring vital signs and medical equipment and reporting patient behavior and well-being.
Certified Nursing Assistant
Orlando Health and Rehabilitation Center
Orlando, FL
04.2019 - 11.2020
- Cared individuals with Dementia, Alzheimer's disease, physical disability, those undergoing post-operative recovery and convalescents
- Take and record vital signs such as blood pressure, pulse and respiration rates, and blood sugar
- Assisted with personal task such as bathing and dressing, nail care, mouth care, hair care, feeding and toileting
- Maintained clean and safe environment for residents or patients
- Record patient’s intake and output
- Empty and change catheter drainage bags
- Accompanied patient to appointments
- Assist patient while walking, sit to stand, and operating Hoyer lifts.
Certified Nursing Assistant
Lutheran Towers
Orlando, FL
07.2019 - 04.2020
- Assist approximately 8 to 10 residents on each shift with activities of daily living
- Ensure they're on time for all meals, and activities
- Provide social and emotional support to improve residents' morale
- Establish rapport with team members, residents, and families
- Help residents with daily hygiene, including showering, oral and peri care, incontinence care, minimizing rashes, sores, and soiling
- Support patients with field trips, arts and crafts, music, games and reading activities
- Observe physical and emotional changes in residents, report patient conditions to nurse
- Transfer patients from bed to chair, bed to commode, chair to commode, using Gait Belts, Hoyer Lifts and Easy Stands as needed ensuring patients safety and comfort
- Follow instructions for range of motion of activities for patients
- Document patients progress/ non-progress
- Maintain accurate charting or documentation regarding the patient status.
Home Health Aide
Community Care Inc.
Smithtown, NY
04.2018 - 10.2019
- Assisting patients by providing personal services, such as, bathing, dressing, and grooming
- Supported patients by providing housekeeping and laundry services
- Assistance with ambulation and physical therapy
- Shopping for food and other household requirements
- Meal Preparations
- Recording patient information by making entries in the patient journal
- Notifying Nursing Supervisor of changing or unusual conditions
- Accompany patients to doctor's appointments.
HHA/Caregiver
All Metro Home Health Care
Lynbrook, NY
06.2014 - 02.2017
- Monitored patient condition by observing physical and mental condition, intake and output, and exercise
- Supported patients by providing housekeeping and laundry services; shopping for food and other household requirements; preparing and serving meals and snacks; running errands
- Assisted patients by providing personal services, such as, bathing, dressing, and grooming
- Helped patients care for themselves by teaching use of cane or walker, special utensils to eat, special techniques and equipment for personal hygiene
- Helped family members care for the patient by teaching appropriate ways to lift, turn, and re-position the patient, advising on nutrition, cleanliness, and housekeeping
- Recorded patient information by making entries in the patient journal; notifying nursing supervisor of changing or unusual conditions
- Maintained a safe, secure, and healthy patient environment by following standards and procedures; maintaining security precautions; following prescribed dietary requirements and nutrition standards.
Certified Nursing Assistant
Central Home Care
Far Rockaway, NY
08.2012 - 01.2013
- Monitored patient condition by observing physical and mental condition, intake and output, and exercise
- Supported patients by providing housekeeping and laundry services; shopping for food and other household requirements; preparing and serving meals and snacks; running errands
- Assisted patients by providing personal services, such as, bathing, dressing, and grooming
- Helped patients care for themselves by teaching use of cane or walker, special utensils to eat, special techniques and equipment for personal hygiene
- Helped family members care for the patient by teaching appropriate ways to lift, turn, and re-position the patient, advising on nutrition, cleanliness, and housekeeping
- Recorded patient information by making entries in the patient journal; notifying nursing supervisor of changing or unusual conditions
- Maintained a safe, secure, and healthy patient environment by following standards and procedures; maintaining security precautions; following prescribed dietary requirements and nutrition standards.
Education
High School Diploma -
Little London High School
01.1988
Broughton Primary School
01.1983
B & M Career Institution
Skills
- Certified Nursing Assistant
- Home Health Aide
- CNA Certified
- HHA
- Alzheimer's Care
- Dementia Care
- Food Preparation
- Caregiving
- Hoyer Lift
- Laundry
- Patient Care
- Nursing
- Senior Care
- Communication skills
- English
- Medical Terminology Knowledge
- Condition Monitoring
- Care Plan Implementation
- Direct Patient Care
- Mobility Assistance
- Monitoring Fluids
- Electronic Charting
- Collecting Specimens
- Transporting Patients
- Patient Relations
- Quality Assurance
- Patient Lifting
- Infection Control Procedures
- Indirect Patient Care
- Patient-Focused Care
- Collecting Vital Signs
- Adaptable
- Bedside Manner
- HIPAA Compliance
- Complex Problem-Solving
- Ambulation Assistance
- Feeding Assistance
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
Patient Care Technician
NYC Health and Hospitals
06.2023 - Current
Certified Nursing Assistant
Threelinks Care Center
02.2022 - 06.2024
Certified Nursing Assistant
Select Specialty Hospital
02.2020 - 01.2021
Certified Nursing Assistant
Lutheran Towers
07.2019 - 04.2020
Certified Nursing Assistant
Orlando Health and Rehabilitation Center
04.2019 - 11.2020
Home Health Aide
Community Care Inc.
04.2018 - 10.2019
HHA/Caregiver
All Metro Home Health Care
06.2014 - 02.2017
Certified Nursing Assistant
Central Home Care
08.2012 - 01.2013
High School Diploma -
Little London High School
Broughton Primary School
B & M Career Institution
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