Patient Care Medical Records
Resume:
SHAUNA R CURRY-AVERY
Louisville, KY 40210
OBJECTIVE
To secure a position in the medical field where I can expand my expertise in a fast paced growing company where I can enhance my business professionalism and management skills.
NURSING SKILLS
●Patient Care & Safety Vital Signs & Patient Monitoring
●Diagnostic Testing Medication Administration
●Medical Terminology Privacy/HIPAA Regulations
●Electronic Medical Records Patient Advocacy and Support
●Affordable Health Care
EXPERIENCE
March 2023- Present River City of Landmark PRN
CNA
●Cleaning and bathing the patients. Many patients have a great deal of difficulty keeping themselves clean when they are in the hospital or nursing home. I find it of great importance to help keep them as clean as possible.
●Take care of combing hair, shaving caring for nails and brushing teeth.
●Assist the patients in using toilet and getting dressed.
●Turn, transfer and reposition the patients between the wheelchair and bed.
●Help to take patients to eat and to participate in various activities.
●Serve the patients meals and in some cases, to help them eat if they cannot do it for themselves.
●Assists in maintaining a safe, neat and clean environment; reports environmental deficiencies to the charge nurse such as lighting or equipment problems.
●Protects the personal belongings of each resident, including eyeglasses, dentures, hearing aids, furnishings, jewelry, clothing and memorabilia. Promptly reports missing items according to established policy and participates in efforts to locate missing items.
●Observes residents for changes in condition or behavior and promptly reports these changes to appropriate licensed nursing personnel.
●Provides care that maintains each resident’s skin integrity to prevent pressure ulcers, skin tears and other damage by changing incontinent residents, turning, repositioning immobile residents and by applying moisturizers to fragile skin and other areas.
●Answers residents’ call bells promptly and courteously.
●Performs various tasks assigned by the charge nurse, including checking vital signs, weighing residents, applying creams/ointments and collecting specimens.
●Assists with orienting residents and their families to the nursing home on admission and to the unit when transfers occur.
●Lifts, moves and transports residents, using proper body mechanics or lifting devices for accident prevention.
●Communicates and interacts effectively and tactfully with the residents, visitors, families, peers and supervisors.
●Assists and escorts residents for appointments such as at the beauty shop or attending activities or church services. Participates in activities and functions as directed.
●Practices careful and efficient use of supplies and linen and follows established charge procedures for resident charge items.
●Completes certified nursing assistant records documenting care provided or other information in keeping with department policies.
●Performs all job responsibilities in accordance with prescribed safety and infection control procedures, including thorough hand washing, use of disposable gloves where indicated and proper disposal of soiled materials.
●Walks extensively to and from various locations of the unit while making rounds and transports residents within the facility.
●Promotes a homelike environment for residents.
June 2021-February 2023 Jewish Hospital
PCA Unit Coordinator
●Coordinates with Registered Nurse to ensure accurate and excellent care with patients.
●Prepares rooms for new patients and set them up to O2 machine and heart monitor at arrival.
●Takes vitals and documents patients vitals.
●Answer patient call signals, signal lights, bells or intercom systems to determine patients needs.
●Makes patient care a priority such as bathing patients, oral care, changing lining on beds, reposition patients, assist in feeding if patients are unable to feed themselves and documenting their food and liquid intake. I also assist in postmortem care and comfort care.
●As a CNA I also assist in CPR and codes if the patient stops breathing.
●Experience working in the pulmonary unit. This unit focuses on patients with lung disease or respiratory conditions such as asthma, pneumonia, bronchitis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, emphysema, tuberculosis and lung cancer.
●Has a great working relationship with staff and patients.
May 2018-Present Summerfield Signature (PRN)
CNA
●Cleaning and bathing the patients. Many patients have a great deal of difficulty keeping themselves clean when they are in the hospital or nursing home. I find it of great importance to help keep them as clean as possible.
●Take care of combing hair, shaving caring for nails and brushing teeth.
●Assist the patients in using toilet and getting dressed.
●Turn, transfer and reposition the patients between the wheelchair and bed.
●Help to take patients to eat and to participate in various activities.
●Serve the patients meals and in some cases, to help them eat if they cannot do it for themselves.
●Assists in maintaining a safe, neat and clean environment; reports environmental deficiencies to the charge nurse such as lighting or equipment problems.
●Protects the personal belongings of each resident, including eyeglasses, dentures, hearing aids, furnishings, jewelry, clothing and memorabilia. Promptly reports missing items according to established policy and participates in efforts to locate missing items.
●Observes residents for changes in condition or behavior and promptly reports these changes to appropriate licensed nursing personnel.
●Provides care that maintains each resident’s skin integrity to prevent pressure ulcers, skin tears and other damage by changing incontinent residents, turning, repositioning immobile residents and by applying moisturizers to fragile skin and other areas.
●Answers residents’ call bells promptly and courteously.
●Performs various tasks assigned by the charge nurse, including checking vital signs, weighing residents, applying creams/ointments and collecting specimens.
●Assists with orienting residents and their families to the nursing home on admission and to the unit when transfers occur.
●Lifts, moves and transports residents, using proper body mechanics or lifting devices for accident prevention.
●Communicates and interacts effectively and tactfully with the residents, visitors, families, peers and supervisors.
●Assists and escorts residents for appointments such as at the beauty shop or attending activities or church services. Participates in activities and functions as directed.
●Practices careful and efficient use of supplies and linen and follows established charge procedures for resident charge items.
●Completes certified nursing assistant records documenting care provided or other information in keeping with department policies.
●Performs all job responsibilities in accordance with prescribed safety and infection control procedures, including thorough hand washing, use of disposable gloves where indicated and proper disposal of soiled materials.
●Walks extensively to and from various locations of the unit while making rounds and transports residents within the facility.
●Promotes a homelike environment for residents.
June 2017-May 2018 St. Matthews Nursing Home
CNA
●Provides patients' personal hygiene by giving bedpans, urinals, baths, backrubs, shampoos, and shaves; assisting with travel to the bathroom; helping with showers and baths.
●Provides for activities of daily living by assisting with serving meals, feeding patients as necessary; ambulating, turning, and positioning patients; providing fresh water and nourishment between meals.
●Provides adjunct care by administering enemas, douches, non-sterile dressings, surgical preps, ice packs, heat treatments, sitz and therapeutic baths; applying restraints.
●Maintains patient stability by checking vital signs and weight; testing urine; recording intake and output information.
●Provides patient comfort by utilizing resources and materials; transporting patients; answering patients' call lights and requests; reporting observations of the patient to nursing supervisor.
●Documents actions by completing forms, reports, logs, and records.
●Maintains work operations by following policies and procedures.
●Protects organization's value by keeping patient information confidential.
●Serves and protects the hospital community by adhering to professional standards, hospital policies and procedures, federal, state, and local requirements, and job standards.
●Updates job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; participating in professional organizations; maintaining licensure.
●Enhances nursing department and hospital reputation by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests; exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments.
May 2016 – June 2017 St. Mary Elizabeth’s
CNA
●Installed heart monitors for patients
●Expert in doing admissions and took specimens down to the lab
●Excellent verbal and written communication
●Ability to follow set rules and protocol
●Time Management and Organizational Skills
●Helping patients/clients in and out of beds and getting around
●Changing and making beds
●Monitoring and reporting on changes in a patient’s condition
●Administrative Duties such as recording and charting
●Examining patients for bruises and other injuries/wounds
●Turning or repositioning patients who are bedridden
●Lifting patients into beds, wheelchairs or exam tables
●Cleaning and sanitizing patient areas
●Provide and empty bedpans
●Changing sheets and restocking rooms with necessary supplies
October 2015 – May 2016 Humana
Limited Term Enrollment Specialist
●Processes Dental and Medical plans in automated software
●Works off Exchange and on Exchange Affordable Health Care
●Receives Inbound and Outbound Calls
●Great customer service with Humana customers and employees
●Punctual
●Has completed mandatory six week training
●Is very knowledgeable about Affordable Health Care and provides great feedback to customers.
●Completes all claims in a timely manner.
●Excellent Typist
June 2014 – July 2016 Regency Healthcare
CNA
●Kept a daily log of each patient and maintained records to ensure that each patient had their daily feedings, bathes, medication and was dressed for the day.
●Worked alongside with nursing staff for a daily routine of 10-11 patients. Worked independently with little to no supervision.
● Check vital signs (blood pressure, respiration, temperature, and weight).
● Change linens and make beds.
● Maintained records of each patient’s daily activities.
●Shows great customer service and professionalism while working around a diverse organization with each patient, family members and employees.
Volunteered to work extra hours to ensure enough nursing staff were available during 1st shift. To maintain a good working morale on the floor.
●Adaptable to all job placements provided by Regency.
●Cleaned patients, made sure all rooms were clean.
March 2014 – October 2015 AMS Agency
CNA
●Kept a daily log of each patient and maintained records to ensure that each patient had their daily feedings, bathes, medication and was dressed for the day.
●Worked alongside with nursing staff for a daily routine of 10-11 patients. Worked independently with little to no supervision.
● Check vital signs (blood pressure, respiration, temperature, and weight).
● Change linens and make beds.
● Maintained records of each patient’s daily activities.
●Shows great customer service and professionalism while working around a diverse organization with each patient, family members and employees.
●Volunteered to work extra hours to ensure enough nursing staff were available during 1st shift. To maintain a good working morale on the floor.
June 2012-March 2014 Summerfield Nursing Home Louisville, KY
Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA)
●Kept a daily log of each patient and maintained records to ensure that each patient had their daily feedings, bathes, medication and was dressed for the day.
●Worked alongside with nursing staff for a daily routine of 10-11 patients. Worked independently with little to no supervision.
● Check vital signs (blood pressure, respiration, temperature, and weight).
● Change linens and make beds.
● Maintained records of each patient’s daily activities.
●Shows great customer service and professionalism while working around a diverse organization with each patient, family members and employees.
●Volunteered to work extra hours to ensure enough nursing staff were available during 1st shift. To maintain a good working morale on the floor.
February 2007-May 2012 Christian Care Louisville, KY
Housekeeping
●Cleaned rooms, hallways, lobbies, lounges, restrooms, corridors, elevators, stairways, locker rooms, and other work areas so that health standards were met.
●Emptied wastebaskets, ashtrays, and transported other trash and waste to disposal areas.
●Swept, scrubbed, waxed, or polished floors, using brooms, mops, or powered scrubbing and waxing machines.
●Cleaned rugs, carpets, upholstered furniture, and draperies, using vacuum cleaners and shampooers.
March2005- January2007 Norton’s Hospital Louisville, KY
Dietary
●Monitored food distribution, ensured that the meals were delivered to the correct recipients and that the guidelines such as those for special diets were followed.
●Cleaned and sterilized dishes, kitchen utensils, equipment, and facilities.
●Examined trays to ensure that they contained the required items.
●Placed food servings on plates and trays according to orders or instructions
●Removed trays and stacked dishes for return to the kitchen after the meals were finished.
EDUCATION
●Jefferson Community College-2011
●Galen College (Registering in February)
COMMUNITY SERVICES
●Fall 2011-Jefferson Community & Technical College Louisville, KY
●2011-Goodwill Industries Power of Work Program Louisville, KY
●2010-GED, Ahrens Adult Education Louisville, KY
●2010-Red Cross, Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) Louisville, KY
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