Patient Care Technitian

Kachi Garcia–Thompson

*** ******** *** *: 917-***-**** / H: 347-***-****

Brooklyn, N.Y. 11212 E: *********@*****.***

SUMMARY

Certified Nurse Assistant looking to obtain a position as a Patient Care Technician, with twenty plus years experience in all aspects of direct patient care, wound care, pain management, infection control Counseling, patient care management and records management. Certified in CPR, AED, Phlebotomy, EKG, Fire Safety, Infection Control, Blood borne Pathogens, and PIV placement and management didactic course and skills lab.

CAREER EXPERIENCE

Implement wound care, infection control, pain management and quality assurance procedures and policies.

Ensure the timely implementation of short/ long term nursing care plans.

Assist patients with feedings, grooming, and other quality-of-life functions.

Facilitate the transfer, admission, and discharge of patients.

Prepare patients for examination, treatment, and rehabilitation as well as assisting physicians and nurses during procedures.

Transport patients between various areas of the medical facility as well as ambulate invalid patients and rotate bedridden patients.

Counsel mothers in breastfeeding techniques and newborn infant care.

Provide instruction, supervision, and counseling of patients or families in grief, terminal diseases, mental and developmental disabilities and other medically related topics.

Recorded patients’ vital signs and personal observation of the patient’s condition as well as recorded patient intake and output.

Perform EKGs, change-feeding bags, monitor IV therapy, and apply Texas catheters as well as collected patient specimens.

Administer medication; update patient charts and records, review the beginning and end of shift reports.

Assist nurses with patients in mother and baby, and neonatal intensive care unit with bathing, feeding, changing, weight and, hearing test for newborns.

CAREER HISTORY

07/2010 - Present Nurse Assistant, Oxford Nursing Home Brooklyn, N.Y

07/2010 - 07/2013 Nurse Assistant, Town Nursing Staff Brooklyn, N.Y

06/2010 - 11/2013 Nurse Assistant, Staff Blue Real Nurses Real Time. Brooklyn, N.Y

12/2001 - 09/2003 Nurse Assistant, Aro Community Services, Inc. Brooklyn, N.Y

08/1997 - 02/2000 Psychiatric Nurse Aide, All Care Nursing Service Plainview, N.Y

07/1997 - 01/1999 Nurse Assistant, Tag Services, Inc. New York, N.Y

06/1997 - 08/1997 Nurse Assistant, Samaritan Health Care Agency, Inc. Tenafly, N.J

EDUCATION

Clinton Institute - Brooklyn, N.Y, Certified Phlebotomist, Certified Electrocardiograph - 2014

Lincoln Technical Institute - Paramus, N.J, Practical Nurse - 2011

Municipal Training Center - Brooklyn, N.Y, Certified Nursing Assistant - 1997

IV National, LLC- Brooklyn, N.Y, Certified PVI Placement and Management Didactic - 2020

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