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

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