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Home Care Assistant

Location:
Toronto, ON, Canada
Posted:
April 12, 2024

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Name: Hannah Appiah

Address: ***, **** ******* ******, *******, Ontario

Email Address: ad4yz8@r.postjobfree.com

Phone Number: 437-***-****

Year of Experience:

* *****

Nursing Area/s of Interest:

Adult nursing

CAREER OBJECTIVES

To work as a care assistant with my extensive experience and knowledge on nursing procedures. I’m passionate about providing a person-centered care to the vulnerable elderly patients/clients. I’m also committed to making patients more informed and comfortable during their care while preserving their dignities and safety.

EDUCATION & QUALIFICATION

Education Level

Diploma

Course

Nursing leadership

School/Universities

Conestoga college waterloo

Dates Inclusive

Still in School

Diploma

Registered General Nursing

Kokofu Nursing Training college

09/09/2020

WORKEXPERIENCE

Employment 1

Position:

Home Care Nurse

Duration (From-To):

March, 2022– December, 2023

Company/Hospital:

Nursing Solutions Agency

Address:

M9FV +HJ2 Kofi Adom St, Kumasi, Ghana.

Description:

To ensure continuity of care to patients through promotion and delivery of high standard, individualized, safe, and supportive care.

Department:

Home Care Services

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Assisting patients in all aspects of their care needs including eating, bathing, and mobility.

Treat and care for patients after major surgical procedures by monitoring vital signs, administering medication, and cleaning surgical areas.

Planning and preparation of client nutrition.

Assist with manual handling and transferring of patients in compliance with the hospital policy.

Performing routine visits, and companionship to ensure patients are comfortable.

Wound care management including burns, lacerations, bruises and crushed injuries.

Maintain good and safe working environment for patients and colleagues

Planning and execution of nursing care according to individual needs

Noted patient physical condition, vital signs, daily routine, and medication schedule in the urgent care department during serious illnesses or injuries.

Recorded information about patients as they recovered from illness in the hospital, such as diet, physical activity, milestones, and more.

Undertake the last offices for deceased patients and give relevant information to relatives/carers.

Advise on the promotion of health and prevention of illness, teaching patients and their relatives where appropriate

Assist the Ward Manger/ Unit In-Charge in promoting the right of patients/clients and maintaining the privacy and dignity of clients/patients and staff.

WORKEXPERIENCE

Employment 2

Position:

Nurse

Duration (From-To):

February, 2021to February, 2022

Company/Hospital:

Dominase S.D.A Hospital

Address:

SDA Hospital Dominase, Post Office Box 272, Bekwai Ashanti, Ghana

Description:

To ensure continuity of care to patients by promoting and delivering high standards of care, individually and safely, and supporting, demonstrating and instructing less experienced staff to enable them to fully contribute to the care team.

Department:

Nursing service

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

•Ensuring patient advocacy by providing the needed information, safety and good nursing care etc.

•Effectively managing the limited hospital resources to provide quality nursing care.

•Preparing daily schedules for junior nursing staff and supervising their work.

•Organize periodic internal workshop for nursing stuff.

•Serve as scrub nurse for surgeries as such caesarian sections, appendectomy, laparotomy etc.

•Management of patient preoperatively and postoperatively.

•Collaborates with the public health nurses in ensuring good nursing care through education for mother and baby at the post-natal clinic (PNC).

•Ensuring patient personal hygiene including, bathing, brushing of teeth, shaving etc

•Planning of client nutritional meal.

•Prepares patients for health care visit.

•Verifies patients’ information by interviewing patients, reviewing and / or recording medical history.

•Taking vital signs, phlebotomy and confirming purpose of visit or treatment

•Administering patients’ medications, explaining treatment procedures to patients and taking blood samples for lab investigations.

•Vetting all patients’ diagnoses and treatment to ensure all treatments match diagnoses before claims are submitted to the national insurance authority for payment

REFERENCES

1.Nursing Solution Agency, Kumasi- Ghana

MartinSamaglo

HR Manager at Nursing Solution Agency

(+233) (0-240******

ad4yz8@r.postjobfree.com

2.Dominase S.D.A Hospital Dominase-Ghana.

Cecilia Ampoful

Nurse Manager

(+233) (0-506******

ad4yz8@r.postjobfree.com



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