Stephanie Lewis
Certified Nursing Assistant
Missouri City,TX
Summary
Detail-oriented Certified Nursing Assistant with successful geriatric healthcare experience. Personable and compassionate with superior communication and rapport-building skills. Strong commitment to comprehensive and individualized patient care and education. Liaises with medical professionals, patients and family to provide continuous top-quality care and education. To seek and maintain full-time position that offers professional challenges utilizing interpersonal skills, excellent time management and problem-solving skills. Care-focused Phlebotomist bringing 8-year background in laboratory settings. Accomplished at easing patient anxieties and hitting veins on first attempts. Experienced in skin puncture draws utilizing varied needle gauges and collection techniques tailored to patient need.
Overview
22
22
years of professional experience
Work History
Certified Nursing Assistant
Aya Healthcare
Portland, OR
10.2021 - 01.2022
- Checked patient vitals such as temperature, blood pressure and blood sugar levels.
- Assisted with feeding and monitored intake to help patients achieve nutritional objectives.
- Promoted good oral and personal hygiene by aiding patients with shaving, bathing and teeth brushing.
- Delivered individualized patient care by recording vital signs, documenting observations, administering treatments and evaluating patient needs
- Answered call lights and supported patient comfort and safety by adjusting bed rails and equipment
- Conferred with multidisciplinary healthcare team to help effectively manage patient conditions with regular testing and vitals assessments
- Cared for residents in assisted living facility and delivered high-quality support to meet needs
Certified Nurse Assistant
St.luke'sepiscopalhealthsystemcorporation
Houston, TX
06.2021 - 01.2022
- Facilitated personal hygiene management, feeding and ambulation.
- Maintained patient stability by checking vital signs and weight and recording intake and outtake information.
- Transported patients between rooms and appointments or testing locations.
- Cared for clients with diagnoses such as respiratory failure, diabetes, Parkinson's disease and muscular dystrophy.
- Monitored patient specimen samples and test results to effectively alert supervisors of potentially unhealthy changes
- Exceeded goals through effective task prioritization and great work ethic
- Reduced risks of patient infection and cross-contamination by cleaning and sterilizing equipment
- Assembled tourniquets, needles, and blood collection devices to prepare work trays.
- Stocked phlebotomy cart or carrier with appropriate supplies.
- Organized daily work based on collection priority.
- Ensured patient safety by adhering to strict infection control protocols during all phlebotomy procedures.
Certified Nurse Assistant
Harris Health System - Ben Taub General Hospital
Houston, Texas
11.2019 - Current
- Facilitated personal hygiene management, feeding and ambulation.
- Maintained patient stability by checking vital signs and weight and recording intake and outtake information.
- Reduced risks of patient infection and cross-contamination by cleaning and sterilizing equipment.
- Transported patients between rooms and appointments or testing locations.
- Exceeded goals through effective task prioritization and great work ethic
- Provided care to patients throughout lifespan with consideration of aging processes, human development stages and culture
- Monitored patient specimen samples and test results to effectively alert supervisors of potentially unhealthy changes
- Drew blood from veins by vacuum tube, syringe, or butterfly venipuncture methods.
- Maintained a high level of accuracy in identifying patients and matching them with their corresponding lab orders.
- Tracked collected specimens by initialing, dating, and noting times of collection.
- Improved patient satisfaction by providing efficient, accurate, and timely blood draws.
Certified Nursing Assistant
SnapNurse
Atlanta, GA
01.2022 - 03.2022
- Delivered individualized patient care by recording vital signs, documenting observations, administering treatments and evaluating patient needs.
- Answered call lights and supported patient comfort and safety by adjusting bed rails and equipment.
- Promoted good oral and personal hygiene by aiding patients with shaving, bathing and teeth brushing.
- Assisted with feeding and monitored intake to help patients achieve nutritional objectives.
- Checked patient vitals such as temperature, blood pressure and blood sugar levels.
- Evaluated patients to identify and address wounds, behavioral concerns and medically relevant symptoms
- Obtained biological specimens for ordered tests and prepared for laboratory transport
- Monitored supply levels and placed orders for laboratory supplies.
- Maintained a high level of accuracy in identifying patients and matching them with their corresponding lab orders.
- Validated blood and specimen collection orders, alerting nurses, or physicians of discrepancies between order and nursing station logs.
- Performed laboratory tests to assist physicians in diagnosis.
Certified Nursing Assistant
SnapNurse
South Windsor, CT
05.2021 - 08.2021
- Answered call lights and supported patient comfort and safety by adjusting bed rails and equipment.
- Promoted good oral and personal hygiene by aiding patients with shaving, bathing and teeth brushing.
- Checked patient vitals such as temperature, blood pressure and blood sugar levels.
- Assisted with feeding and monitored intake to help patients achieve nutritional objectives.
- Facilitated personal hygiene management, feeding and ambulation.
- Maintained patient stability by checking vital signs and weight and recording intake and outtake information.
- Delivered individualized patient care by recording vital signs, documenting observations, administering treatments and evaluating patient needs
Certified Nursing Assistant
Memorial Hermann Health System
Houston, TX
06.2012 - 04.2019
- Answered call lights and supported patient comfort and safety by adjusting bed rails and equipment.
- Promoted good oral and personal hygiene by aiding patients with shaving, bathing and teeth brushing.
- Checked patient vitals such as temperature, blood pressure and blood sugar levels.
- Assisted with feeding and monitored intake to help patients achieve nutritional objectives.
- Delivered individualized patient care by recording vital signs, documenting observations, administering treatments and evaluating patient needs
- Checked patient vitals such as temperature, blood pressure and blood sugar levels
Education
High School Diploma -
Knowledge -First Empowerment Academy
9888 Bissonnet St Houston, Tx 7703612.2021
Skills
- Nursing Assistance
- Bed Transfers
- First Aid
- Efficient and Reliable Team Player
- Inpatient Care
- Documenting Behaviors
- Measuring Bodily Fluids
- Recording Vital Signs
- Catheter Change and Preparation
- Wound Care
Blood collection techniques
Venipuncture
Specimen labeling procedures
Order of draw
Venipuncture expertise
Accomplishments
- Achieved teamwork through effectively helping with corroborate for patient safety and care.
- Introduced a Discharge Lounge into a CVIUC unit to relieve the over flow of the unit and emergency center.
- I was employee of the month due to patients and family send and leaving notes.
- I have been a certified nursing assistant for 15 plus years I have worked in a cardiovascular intensive care unit for 10 years and step dow unit and a LTC and Skilled Facility for years off and on
Work Availability
monday
tuesday
wednesday
thursday
friday
saturday
sunday
morning
afternoon
evening
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Work Preference
Work Type
Full TimeWork Location
On-SiteRemoteImportant To Me
Company Culture401k matchCareer advancementTeam Building / Company RetreatsPersonal development programsCertification
- CNA - Certified Nursing Assistant
- PT - Phlebotomy Technician
Timeline
Certified Nursing Assistant
SnapNurse
01.2022 - 03.2022
Certified Nursing Assistant
Aya Healthcare
10.2021 - 01.2022
Certified Nurse Assistant
St.luke'sepiscopalhealthsystemcorporation
06.2021 - 01.2022
Certified Nursing Assistant
SnapNurse
05.2021 - 08.2021
Certified Nurse Assistant
Harris Health System - Ben Taub General Hospital
11.2019 - Current
Certified Nursing Assistant
Memorial Hermann Health System
06.2012 - 04.2019
High School Diploma -
Knowledge -First Empowerment Academy
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