Nursing Home Caregiver
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CURRICULUM VITAE
Michell Ratidzo Shavi Nee Masuku
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DUBAI
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ZIMBABWEAN
POSITION: CAREGIVER
Strengths:
Patience.
Dependability
Confidence.
Attentiveness.
Trustworthiness
Supportive.
Compassionate.
Creative.
OVERAL DUTIES
Provides for activities of daily living by assisting with serving meals, feeding patients as necessary and ambulating, turning, and positioning patients; and providing fresh water and nourishment between meals.
Maintains patient stability by checking vital signs and weight; testing urine and recording intake and output information.
Provides patient comfort by utilizing resources and materials; transporting patients; answering patients’ call lights and requests; and 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.
Working Experience
1. Fortunate Nursing Agency (Home Care) August 2018 to May 2021
Title: CAREGIVER
Provide physical support for patients with daily activities and personal hygiene
Assist in performing manual exercises to increase the patient’s strength
Transporting or escorting the client to medical and other appointments
Administer medications under supervision
Assist with meals and nutrition
Keep records of patients’ information, including their eating habits, actions, and moods, as part of the requirements for treatment
Assist clients with daily living activities, including bathing,groomingdressing,eating and using the bathroom
Scheduling patient appointments, cancellations, and updating records as well as take patient information, record documentation, and monitor patient vital signs.
2. Ekuphumuleni Geriatric Nursing Home
Title: CAREGIVER
Care of patients with diabetics, stroke, dementia
Keep in touch with family members of patients or those who brought them in; giving them updates of patients’ health condition
Bed baths, up baths and oral care
Observations
Psychosocial encounter with patients
Care of incontinent patients and prevention of pressure ulcers
Administering prescribed medicines under supervision
Lifting techniques
Bed making and damp dusting
Encouraging mobility
Helping patients to engage in gainful activities
Simple dressing
3. Ingutsheni Central Hospital (Mentally Challenged Institution)
Title: CAREGIVER
Looking after the elderly and the mentally disturbed psychiatric patients
Carry out checkups on patients, look out for new developments and inform the professional medical staff in charge
Bathing of bed ridden patients
Wound dressings
Bed making
Taking temperatures, pulse and respiration
General grooming of patients
Serving and feeding of helpless patients
General cleaning of the ward and damp dusting
4. Southern African Institute of Counselling and Therapy January to December 2014
Title: Administrator
Counselling
Teaching activities of the organization
Registration of students
Training
Student follow up
Record keeping and reporting
Materials Production
Project Management
Operational Research
Organize student graduation ceremonies
Academic Qualifications
Pulse Therapy and Learning Centre
ABA Trained
Pursuing RBT
Midlands State University
BSC Psychology Honors Degree July 2011 to December 2015
Fortunate Nursing Agency
Higher Nursing Aide Education 10 August 2018 to 22 June 2019
Physiotherapy Education
Ekuphumuleni Geriatric Nursing Home
Geriatric Care Aid Training Course 19 August 2019 to 20 October 2019
References
Available upon request
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