Blessmore Ruvimbo Jaravaza-Huku
Location: Kwekwe,Zimbabwe
Contact: +263*********
Email: ad44bf@r.postjobfree.com
Professional Profile
Caring and compassionate caregiver with 3+ years of experience providing for in home patient needs. Proven track record of excellence in providing for daily needs including homemaking, cooking, transportation and supplementing therapy. Have received frequent commendation from clients and families for efficiency, compassion and time management. Acclaimed for positive attitude and problem solving.
Core Skills
Hard Skills
●Urgent care and emergency care
●Checking and monitoring vital signs
●Technology skills
●Safe patient handling
●CPR and first Aid
●Alzheimer’s care
●Housekeeping, homemaking
●Documenting daily activities
●Following plan of care
●Clean driving record
●Diabetes Care
Soft Skills
●Ability to work independently and within a team
●Ability to work without supervision
●Ability to solve problems
●Ability to use time wisely
●Good interpersonal skills
●Can work under pressure
●Good communication
●Ability to grasp new concepts and apply them quick and efficiently
Career Summary
Ruvimbo Polyclinic
Volunteer Healthcare Assistant
Sept 2022 – Sept 2023
Key Responsibilities
Call attendance to patients
Assisting patients with medication
Checking temperature, blood pressure, pulse and respirations
Completing and maintaining checkup schedules for doctor appointments
Carrying out quality and hygiene assurance in the general working environment and premises.
Collect and review patient symptoms to assist doctors with diagnosis
Assisting doctors with necessities they need in emergency rooms.
Helping patients with their personal hygiene, such as using the bathroom, bathing and dressing
Assisting patience with meals by feeding them
Maintaining patients hygiene and changing bedding
Turning, repositioning and moving patients between wheelchairs, seats and beds
Multichoice Hospital
Nursing Assistant
March 2022 – August 2022
Key Responsibilities
Answering patient calls and determining how best I can assist them
Performing blood pressure, pulse, respirations, intake/output and weights accurately; records it.
Respecting the rights of each patient, particularly privacy and con dentiality.
Preventing bedsores in bedridden patients by repositioning and turning them on a regular basis.
Assist nursing patients with their daily activities, including bathing, dressing and eating.
Allowing patients to express individuality by keeping them involved in decisions about their clothing, hair and other personal care.
Examining patients to detect issues requiring medical care, including open wounds, bruises, or blood in urine
Giving patience their medication and nutritional supplements on time.
Observing and reporting patient behaviour, including complaints and physical symptoms to nurses and doctors
Ensuring that patience received appropriate diet through reviewing their dietary restrictions, food allergies and preferences.
Private Home
Freelance Caregiver
August 2019 – February 2022
Key Responsibilities
Providing in home care for two elderly people, one with diabetes.
Focusing on daily needs, homemaking, cooking and supplementary therapy.
Providing regular transportation for shopping and hospital visits for checkups.
Exercising patients by helping them walk
Helping patients eat their meals and take proper medical dosage
Assisting patients with dressing, undressing and personal hygiene
Monitoring their daily health conditions
Promoting their autonomy in decision making
Recognising and responding to their needs
Laundering their clothes, linen and other articles
Answering their calls
Education& Qualifications
Midlands State University 2019
BSc (Hons) Media and Society Studies Grades – Upper Second Division
Key College 2022
Nurse Aiding
Grades – Excelled at CPR and Clinical evaluations
Received high marks in communication training
References available on request