Tammy Warrick
Virginia Beach,VA
Summary
Committed PCA offers 15 years in home healthcare. Dedicated to delivering consistent and focused attention to client safety, comfort, and dignity. Well-versed in direct patient care and recordkeeping.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Care Provider
HOME INSTEAD
Virginia Beach, VA
02.2022 - Current
- Provide patients with help moving in and out of beds, baths, wheelchairs, or automobiles and with dressing and grooming
- Entertain, converse with, or read aloud to patients to keep them mentally healthy and alert
- Provided clients transportation to and from medical appointments
- Did Light housekeeping duties
- Assisted with general hygeine
- Prepared meals
- Administered medicine
- Engaged in conversations.
PCA
Home Instead Senior Care Home
Gansvoort, NY
09.2015 - 11.2017
- Helped clients manage money, pay bills and shop for groceries or personal items.
- Recorded temperature, blood pressure, pulse, or respiration rate as directed by medical or nursing staff.
- Assisted with feeding and monitored intake to help patients achieve nutritional objectives.
- Obtained patient vital signs and reported results to staff nurse or physician, noting changes from prior measurements.
cashier/salad bar attendant/banquet manager
CANTINE SERVICES
virginia beach, VA
12.2001 - 06.2004
- Cook food or prepare food items, such as sandwiches, salads, and ice cream dishes, using standard formulas or following directions
- Prepare bills for food, using cash registers, calculators, or adding machines, and accept payment or make change
- Receive payment by cash, check, credit cards, vouchers, or automatic debits
- Wrap menu item such as sandwiches, hot entrees, and desserts for serving or for takeout
- Assist customers by providing information and resolving their complaints
- Balance receipts and payments in cash registers
- Greet customers entering establishments
- Scrub and polish counters, steam tables, and other equipment, and clean glasses, dishes, and fountain equipment
- Answer customers' questions, and provide information on procedures or policies
- Replenish foods at serving stations
- Maintain clean and orderly checkout areas and complete other general cleaning duties, such as mopping floors and emptying trash cans
- Perform cleaning duties such as sweeping, mopping, and washing dishes, to keep equipment and facilities sanitary
- Count money in cash drawers at the beginning of shifts to ensure that amounts are correct and that there is adequate change
- Take customers' orders and write ordered items on tickets, giving ticket stubs to customers when needed to identify filled orders
- Calculate total payments received during a time period, and reconcile this with total sales
- Order items needed to replenish supplies
- Compute and record totals of transactions
- Serve salads, vegetables, meat, breads, and cocktails, ladle soups and sauces, portion desserts, and fill beverage cups and glasses
- Set up dining areas for meals and clear them following meals
- Carve meat
- Deliver orders to kitchens, and pick up and serve food when it is ready.
buffet bar attendant/hostess
SHONEYS RESTAURANTS
hampton roads, VA
01.1999 - 01.2001
- Monitor food distribution, ensuring that meals are delivered to the correct recipients and that guidelines, such as those for special diets, are followed.
cashier/short order cook
CHANNEL CRAB
norfolk, VA
01.1997 - 08.1998
- Receive payment by cash, check, credit cards, vouchers, or automatic debits
- Issue receipts, refunds, credits, or change due to customers
- Assist customers by providing information and resolving their complaints
- Establish or identify prices of goods, services or admission, and tabulate bills using calculators, cash registers, or optical price scanners
- Answer customers' questions, and provide information on procedures or policies
- Maintain clean and orderly checkout areas and complete other general cleaning duties, such as mopping floors and emptying trash cans
- Count money in cash drawers at the beginning of shifts to ensure that amounts are correct and that there is adequate change
- Calculate total payments received during a time period, and reconcile this with total sales
- Assist with duties in other areas of the store, such as monitoring fitting rooms or bagging and carrying out customers' items
- Bag, box, wrap, or gift-wrap merchandise, and prepare packages for shipment
- Issue receipts, refunds, credits, or change due to customers
- Grill, cook, and fry foods such as french fries, eggs, and pancakes
- Clean food preparation equipment, work areas, and counters or tables
- Take orders from customers and cook foods requiring short preparation times, according to customer requirements
- Grill and garnish hamburgers or other meats such as steaks and chops
- Perform food preparation tasks, such as making sandwiches, carving meats, making soups or salads, baking breads or desserts, and brewing coffee or tea
- Perform general cleaning activities in kitchen and dining areas.
PCA
Wesley Senior Solutions
Saratoga Springs, NY
03.2016 - 12.2017
- Helped clients manage money, pay bills and shop for groceries or personal items.
- Recorded temperature, blood pressure, pulse, or respiration rate as directed by medical or nursing staff.
- Assisted with feeding and monitored intake to help patients achieve nutritional objectives.
- Obtained patient vital signs and reported results to staff nurse or physician, noting changes from prior measurements.
PCA
Seniorcorp
Virginia Beach, VA
01.2018 - 09.2021
- Helped clients manage money, pay bills and shop for groceries or personal items.
- Recorded temperature, blood pressure, pulse, or respiration rate as directed by medical or nursing staff.
- Assisted with feeding and monitored intake to help patients achieve nutritional objectives.
- Obtained patient vital signs and reported results to staff nurse or physician, noting changes from prior measurements.
Education
High School Diploma -
Lake Taylor High
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Tidewater Community College
ADDITIONALSKILLS - undefined
Key business College
Skills
- Incapacitation care
- Ability to Lift Clients
- Progress Tracking
- CPR Certification
- Convalescence Support
- Client Education
- Patient Care Recordkeeping
- Verbal and Written Communication
- Linens Management
- Meal Planning and Preparation
- Patient Massage
- Grocery Shopping and Storage
- Performance Assessment
- Emotional Support and Companionship
- Medication Administration
Certification
- PCA - Personal Care Aide
Timeline
Senior Care Provider
HOME INSTEAD
02.2022 - Current
PCA
Seniorcorp
01.2018 - 09.2021
PCA
Wesley Senior Solutions
03.2016 - 12.2017
PCA
Home Instead Senior Care Home
09.2015 - 11.2017
cashier/salad bar attendant/banquet manager
CANTINE SERVICES
12.2001 - 06.2004
buffet bar attendant/hostess
SHONEYS RESTAURANTS
01.1999 - 01.2001
cashier/short order cook
CHANNEL CRAB
01.1997 - 08.1998
High School Diploma -
Lake Taylor High
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Tidewater Community College
ADDITIONALSKILLS - undefined
Key business College