Veronica Palencia
Rogue River,OR
Summary
Kind Caregiver with experience addressing physical and emotional needs. Familiar with scheduling and managing appointments, coordinating household support, and offering caring companionship. Well-organized with medications and physically fit to handle any client need.
Devoted personal care professional skilled in fostering client health and convenience through assisting with daily activities and health needs. Driven to promote healthy habits to encourage client well-being by demonstrating healthy habits. Dedicated to applying emerging techniques to derive best possible outcomes.
Overview
24
24
years of professional experience
Work History
Private Home Caregiver
Helping Senior’s Llc
Grants Pass, Oregon
03.2023 - Current
- Encouraged independence among clients by assisting them with self-care whenever possible.
- Organized oral medications for clients following dosage and schedule requirements.
- Obtained sources of entertainment for clients to provide full and enjoyable daily activities.
- Conducted light housekeeping tasks such as vacuuming, dusting, laundry and changing linens.
- Assisted with personal hygiene tasks such as shampooing hair, trimming nails, shaving facial hair.
- Monitored vital signs such as temperature, pulse rate and respiration rate when required.
- Followed safe lifting and transferring techniques to transport residents.
- Encouraged residents to participate in activities of daily living to enhance personal dignity.
- Assisted with meal planning to meet nutritional plans.
- Assisted clients with maintaining good personal hygiene.
- Maintained cleanliness of clients' environment by cleaning surfaces and washing clothes or dishes.
- Observed patients for changes in physical, emotional, mental or behavioral condition and injuries.
- Assisted with meal preparation according to dietary restrictions and preferences.
Elderly Caregiver
Helping Seniors Llc
White City, Oregon
03.2023 - 04.2023
- Coordinated doctor appointments, exercise, recreation, and family visits to maintain schedule.
- Monitored clients' activity levels and helped prevent sedentary behavior.
- Helped clients communicate with loved ones by typing written messages and relaying verbal messages.
Private caregiving
Mervin Cruthers
Shady, Cove
01.2017 - 02.2022
- Provided assistance in daily living activities by dressing, grooming, bathing, and toileting patients.
- Provided safe mobility support to help patients move around personal and public spaces.
- Assisted patients with self-administered medications.
- Monitored progress and documented patient health status changes to keep care team updated.
Food Prep Cooking Assistant
Trail Market
Trail, OR
07.2018 - 02.2019
- Trained and assisted new kitchen staff members.
- Preserved freshness of food by storing food in designated containers and storage areas within freezer or refrigerator.
- Maintained clean, hygienic kitchen workspace by sweeping, mopping, and taking out trash.
- Operated dishwasher and manually washed dishes to clean all chinaware, silverware, and cooking utensils.
Waitress/cooker
Costa Del Sol Mexican Restaurant
Van nays, Ca
02.2001 - 02.2007
- Used slow periods to restock supplies, ice, trays, and delivery bags.
- Explained menu items and suggested appropriate options for food allergy concerns.
Skills
- Personal hygiene assistance
- Incontinence care
- Physical therapy support
- Housekeeping duties
- Compassionate caregiving
- Alzheimer's care
- Meal preparation
- Dementia care
- Mobility assistance
- Documentation
- Medication coordination
- Hoyer lifting equipment
- Medication management
- Lifting and transferring
- Patient care
- Client transportation
- Basic housekeeping
- Housekeeping tasks
- Daily living activities assistance
- Heavy lifting
- Elderly care
- Medication administration
Timeline
Private Home Caregiver
Helping Senior’s Llc
03.2023 - Current
Elderly Caregiver
Helping Seniors Llc
03.2023 - 04.2023
Food Prep Cooking Assistant
Trail Market
07.2018 - 02.2019
Private caregiving
Mervin Cruthers
01.2017 - 02.2022
Waitress/cooker
Costa Del Sol Mexican Restaurant
02.2001 - 02.2007
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