Whitney C. Taylor
Richmond
Summary
Healthcare professional ready to contribute to patient care excellence. Expertise in providing compassionate care and supporting medical staff in fast-paced environments. Reliable team player focused on adapting to evolving patient needs and delivering quality outcomes. I am a team orientated person who enjoys new challenges. I prefer to maintain a “can do” attitude and I love taking care of my patients.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Patient Care Technician
Children's Hospital Of Richmond At Vcu
12.2024 - Current
- Monitored vital signs and reported changes to nursing staff, ensuring timely medical interventions when necessary.
- Assisted nurses with essential tasks, streamlining workflow and increasing efficiency in the healthcare setting.
- Enhanced patient satisfaction by providing compassionate and attentive care.
- Assisted in sharing knowledge and best practices to ensure consistency in care delivery.
- Provided high-quality personal care to patients, promoting comfort and dignity during their hospital stay.
- Maintained clean and safe environment to promote patient safety and comfort.
- Contributed to a positive patient experience by keeping rooms clean, organized, and well-stocked with supplies.
- Assisted in transferring patients, beds and patient care equipment to other rooms adhering to necessary safety precautions.
- Assisted with feeding and monitored intake, output, and daily weight to help patients achieve nutritional objectives.
- Facilitated smooth transitions between shifts by maintaining thorough documentation of patient care activities and observations.
- Reduced stress for patients and families through effective communication and empathetic support.
- Demonstrated adaptability by working effectively with patients of diverse backgrounds and medical conditions, providing personalized care for each individual.
- Monitored vital signs for early detection of medical issues, ensuring timely intervention.
- Streamlined patient check-in process, enhancing efficiency of care delivery.
- Helped patients with self-feeding and assisted feeding, based on individual needs.
- Provided high-quality personal care services such as bathing, grooming, dressing, and feeding to ensure patient dignity.
- Answered call lights and supported patient comfort and safety by adjusting bed rails and equipment.
- Experience with high risk patient sitting and monitoring in a hospital setting.
Oral Surgical Assistant
VCU Dental Care
08.2023 - Current
- Sedation training in Moderate and General IV sedation and nitrous oxide
- BLS and CPR certification
- Dental radiology license
- Monitored and recorded patient vital signs
- Microsoft Office Suite and Email
- Trained in emergency airway protocols
- Obtained patient medical history, medication information symptoms and allergies
- Prepare and organize in-clinic surgery room equipment, instruments, and supplies for various surgical procedures.
- Anticipate surgeon and patient needs during a procedure; provide surgeon with necessary instruments, supplies, and equipment.
- Process specimens, prepare, check, and monitor medications, and assist with dressings.
- Set up a sterile and sanitary environment and maintain the sterile field for the patient during procedures.
- Responsible for entire clinic stocking and restocking medical supplies
Owner/Event Planner
Simple Sweets LLC
08.2016 - Current
- Manages all daily operations of a multi-event planning business, including birthday parties, weddings, gender reveals, and baby showers.
- Schedules, coordinates, and executes all event tasks from set-up to take down.
- Communicates with vendors, clients, guests, and venue staff to ensure successful and memorable experiences.
- Creates custom keepsakes and favors with great attention to detail to suite the occasion by specified deadlines.
- Develops community relationships and obtains repeat customers through exceptional service.
Lead Dental Assistant
The Foleck Center
07.2022 - 08.2023
- Delivered quality and compassionate care to every patient.
- Recorded vitals and Updated patient medical history
- Guided parents of minors and patients through our processes before treatment.
- Educated patients in oral hygiene instruction and provide postoperative care instructions.
- Prepared patients and rooms for examination and treatment.
- Take x-rays and save to patient charts.
- Prepared tray set-ups for dental procedures.
- Sterilize and disinfect instruments, equipment, chairs, and rooms.
- Assisted dentists with treatments and procedures such as composite fillings, crown preps, extractions, root canal therapy, prophylaxis, oral surgery, sedation.
- Responsible for adhering to all government regulations and company standards.
- Coronal Polishing
- Temporary Crowns
- Invisalign attachments
- Digital and Traditional Impressions
- Medit and PrimScan Experience
- Applied sealants to children’s molars.
- Pouring Up Models
- Custom Whitening Trays
- Experience with Dental Implants
- Tend to and remove sutures as needed
- Maintained office inventory and ordered supplies as needed.
- Actively participates in daily morning huddles for schedule review and ensure a smooth productive day.
- Assists the doctor during a variety of treatments, exams, procedures.
- Is proficient at entering all patient documentation into the Electronic Dental Record for legal compliance, review, and Doctors’ signoff.
- Scanning all required paperwork into the patients’ charts.
- Scheduled repairs for equipment and sent equipment out for repairs.
- Tracked cases and pulled cases for delivery weekly.
- Mentor new hires
- Assists in the efficient transition and adaptation of new dental assistant staff.
- Dental supplies and dental supply ordering: maintain a running list of dental supply inventory.
- Monitor dental supply expirations and dispose of materials accordingly.
- Work in conjunction with management team to request dental supply needs properly and efficiently to the appropriate requisition channel for ordering while adhering to inventory budget.
- Is mindful and stays within the care center budget that has been established by the company.
- Ensure maintenance of emergency kits and first aid supplies in the office to ensure accuracy and compliance with OSHA/WISHA.
- Inspect, test and log autoclave systems and eye wash systems. Ensure weekly monitoring of autoclave systems via spore testing and other biological testing, as designated.
Dental Assistant
United Smiles
01.2021 - 06.2022
- Delivered quality and compassionate care to every patient.
- Guided parents of minors and patients through our processes before treatment.
- Educated patients in oral hygiene instruction and provide postoperative care instructions.
- Prepared patients and rooms for examination and treatment.
- Took x-rays and save to patient charts.
- Prepared tray set-ups for dental procedures.
- Sterilize and disinfect instruments, equipment, chairs, and rooms.
- Assisted dentists with treatments and procedures such as composite fillings, crown preps, extractions, root canal therapy
- Responsible for adhering to all sterile, government regulations and company standards
- Polished after prophys were completed
- Applied sealants to children’s molars.
Education
Dental Assisting -
Accelerated Dental Assisting Academy
Richmond, VA12-2020
Certified Nursing Assistant - undefined
Virginia School for Nurse Aides
Richmond, VA07.2013
Interdisciplinary Studies - undefined
Norfolk State University
Norfolk, VA05.2013
Skills
- Electronic Medical Records
- Customer Service
- Vital signs monitoring
- Patient Safety
- CPR certification
- Patient Intake and Education
- Patient observation
- Vital Signs
- Blood glucose testing
- Aseptic Techniques
- Basic life support
- Equipment Sterilization
- Phlebotomy techniques
- X-Rays and Impressions
- Feeding assistance
- Scheduling
- Patient positioning
- Multitasking and Organization
- Adaptable
- Professional bedside manner
- Clinical training
- Information protection
- Medical equipment operation
- Safety protocols
- Restocking supplies
- Patient assistance
- Vitals documentation
- Bed preparation
- HIPAA compliance
- Certified in CPR/AED
- Calm under stress
- Supply restocking
- Output monitoring and reporting
Certification
- Dental Radiation Safety Certification for Dental Assistants
- First Aid CPR AED (BLS)
Timeline
Patient Care Technician
Children's Hospital Of Richmond At Vcu
12.2024 - Current
Oral Surgical Assistant
VCU Dental Care
08.2023 - Current
Lead Dental Assistant
The Foleck Center
07.2022 - 08.2023
Dental Assistant
United Smiles
01.2021 - 06.2022
Owner/Event Planner
Simple Sweets LLC
08.2016 - Current
Certified Nursing Assistant - undefined
Virginia School for Nurse Aides
Interdisciplinary Studies - undefined
Norfolk State University
Dental Assisting -
Accelerated Dental Assisting Academy
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