Health Management
Resume:
JULIA L. LARKIN, CDP
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Kalamazoo, Michigan 49009
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SUMMARY
Last position: Sojourner Place: Meaningful Pursuit Coordinator (MPC) “activities
director, with experience, passion, high standards of excellence providing care and
services, dedicated understanding sensitivity to changes and challenges. Trained and
experienced in Geriatric with emphasis on Alzheimer’s and Dementia.
Trained and Certified as a Dementia Practitioner, health administration, management,
training and educating seniors in achieving quality of life.
Skills: Administration, Patient care associate for over 20 years, performed LPN duties,
ADL's, O2 management, medication assistance, and infection control, nutrition, food
prep/storage with labeling teachings, exercise management, and transport, breathing
treatments, catheter care, G.I. and stoma care, tracheotomy care, and wound care,
medication administration for mentally challenged, or disadvantage adults, who are
coping with stress, depression, bipolar disorders, MMR, and personality disorders.
EXPERIENCE
Founder and Administrator of Grandsitting Corporation (a non-profit) business
assisting seniors in their homes, preventive home care services
(Companionship, Home Health, and Deep Home Cleaning), also, direct
workshop training for seniors going back into the workforce for AARP.
Meaningful Pursuit Co-Coordinator / Concierge of Sojourner House Assisted Living
Concept assisting Resident Director, administering front offices(administrative,
marketing, and nursing). Focus on residents life enrichment (activities), and directing
communications.
Volunteer position
PATH (Personal Action Toward Health) Leader with the Area Agency on Aging in
Berrien and Kalamazoo County
2010 to present conducting chronic condition workshops which consist of self-
management teaching in areas of Heart Disease, Arthritis, Diabetes, Asthma, Bronchitis,
Emphysema, and others.
EDUCATION
University of Phoenix, Grand Rapid, MI & Kalamazoo, MI
Presently- expected graduate of 2015 earning Bachelors of Science Degree in Health
Administration with emphasis on the elderly.
Kalamazoo Valley Community College, Kalamazoo MI
Transferred credits, Major- Registered Nursing
Lake Michigan Community College, Benton Harbor MI
Transferred credits Major-
Licensed Practical Nursing
CERTIFICATES
CDP (Certified Dementia Practitioner)
Certified PATH (Personal Action toward Health) Leader
Certified Patient Care Associate, Bronson and Borgess Hospital
Certified CPR and First Aide, HomeLife Inc. MI
Certified Medication Administrator, Alterra / Wynwood of Portage, MI
Certified Phlebotomist, Bronson Methodist Hospital, MI
Certified Pharmacy Technician, Walgreen’s Association, MI
References available upon request, willing to travel, continue education and training
required to fit position as needed or recommended.
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