Nursing Assistant Care

Aretha Meadows

Stae Tested Nursing Assistant - VA Hosptial

Cleveland, OH

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WORK EXPERIENCE

State Tested Nursing Assistant

VA Hosptial - Cleveland, OH - October 2006 to Present Responsibilities

From 2006 - 2010 I worked on a spinal cord injury unit here at the VA, where i did daily vital signs, bed baths, showers, mouth care which consisted of brushing teeth, denture care, and mouth swabs, bowl care, dry sterile dressings, simple and complex dressings, shaving facial hair, combing hair, Q2H turns, answering call lights, Q 1 hr checks, straight cath, inserting foley's, and D'C foley's, reading doctor's orders, daily charting in the CPRS, also i feed vets, dressed, used hoyer lifts, sara lift, and trach care. In 2010 - to prsent i transfered to the Hopice unit, which my duties includes, mouth care, bed baths and showers, shaving facial hair, inserting foley cath and D'C them, feeding vets, Q2H turns, hourly round checks, postpartum care, consoling family members, ect Accomplishments

I accomplished learning different skills such as the ones mentioned above and I've also learned to be a better caregiver and the meaning of "caregiver"

Skills Used

The skills I demonstrated at this job was safety comes first for you and your patient, being patient and understanding, multi-tasking, and prioritize

State Tested Nursing Assistant

Bedford Hospital - Bedford, OH - June 2001 to October 2006 Responsibilities

Daily vital signs, assist in bed baths and showers, EKG, ROM, setting up meals so the patient could eat, making occupied and unoccupied beds, shaving facial hair, prep patients for surgery, daily notes on patients in the computer, sterile urinalysis, Blood sugars, ect Accomplishments

I recieved a Shining Star award which indicated the care and empathy i gave to my patients Caregiver

Ms.Hursh - Cleveland, OH - March 1997 to December 2000 Responsibilities

Prepared dinner, light house cleaning, assisted with baths, grooming, assisted with toileting, ran errands, read the newspaper to Ms Hursh, took her to doctors appointments, ect EDUCATION

Health Careers Center High School - Cleveland, OH

1985 to 1987