Certified Nurse Assistant
Resume:
Margaret Mukuhi
San Diego, CA
aduax7@r.postjobfree.com
OBJECTIVE
● Reliable, service-focused nursing professional with 4 years of experience in excellent patient-care and charting skills gained through a year plus of experience as a CNA. Compassionate and technically skilled in attending to patients in diverse healthcare settings. CPR certified (current).
SKILLS
● Patient Care & Safety
● Vital Signs & Patient Monitoring
● Privacy / HIPAA Regulations
● Patient Advocacy and Support
● Able to work with a sense of urgency
● Strong communication skills
● Great time management skills
● matching qualification
● Epic, Matrix and Point click care chatting
skills
● skilled nursing facility
● Ability to work with diverse
backgrounds/cultures and in teams
WORK EXPERIENCE
AYA healthcare, UCSD Health System, San Diego, CA
Certified Nurse Assistant March 2022 - Present
● Displays strong clinical skills in assessing vital signs and providing pre- and post-operative care.
● Adheres to safety guidelines and completed the hospital's three- hour patient safety training.
● Ensures the accurate, timely flow of information by maintaining thorough patient records and updating the team on patients status.
● Complies with HIPAA standards in all patient documentation and interactions.
● Provide care to emotionally disturbed or mentally ill patients in a healthcare setting.
● Performs routine tasks under the supervision of registered nurses.
● Takes patient's temperate, pulse, and respiration rate.
● Takes blood pressure and determine if range is abnormal.
● Answers calls for help and determine if additional help is needed.
● Prepares and serve meals.
● Feed patient and mash up food if necessary.
● Bathe and dress patient.
● Makes beds and perform light housekeeping duties in patient's room.
● Takes patient on walks.
● Deliver them to operating rooms.
● Sets up equipment.
● Stores and move supplies.
● Observes patients' physical, mental, and emotional conditions.
● Observes fluid intake and output.
Pioneer healthcare/Equus Workforce solutions, San Diego, CA Certified Nurse Assistant/Site Coordinator Aug 2021 - June 2022
● Observe patients’ behavior, listen to their concerns, and record their condition
● Lead patients in therapeutic and recreational activities
● Help with admitting and discharging patients
● Monitor patients’ vital signs, such as their blood pressure
● Help patients with activities of daily living, including eating and bathing
● Monitor patients’ behavior and location in a mental healthcare facility
● Help patients with their daily living activities, such as bathing and dressing
● Serve meals and help patients eat
● Keep facilities clean by doing tasks such as changing bed linens
● Participate in group activities, such as playing sports and going on field trips
● Restrain patients who may become physically violent
● Taking fast, accurate vitals signs for patients.
● Detailed recording skills for patients charts and follow-up care.
● Explains and interprets regulations, policies, and procedures for staff. Site Coordinator
● Handles "daily" supervision of assigned case managers and their workloads/schedules, including performance management.
● Resolves problems encountered during daily operations and determines appropriate solutions.
● Monitors work activity on caseloads to ensure that cases are clearly and thoroughly documented.
● Provides work instruction and assists employees with difficult and/or unusual assignments.
● Assists with data requests and performs analysis on current demographics and outcomes.
● Supports quality assurance activities and the growth of assigned case managers.
● Facilitates meetings with staff.
● Completes Coordinator reports each month accountable for all data timeliness and accuracy.
● Attends quarterly Coordinator and JAG Manager meetings and State JAG Training. CareLinx, San Diego, CA
Certified Nurse Assistant Jan 2020 - Jan 2022
● Provides nursing assistance to residents in a 120-bed long-term-care facility.
● 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.
Amicable Healthcare, Washington, WA
Certified Nurse Assistant April 2019 to December 2019
● Provided high-quality patient care as an in-demand per-diem CNA within surgical, acute-care, rehabilitation, home-healthcare and nursing-home settings.
● Preserves patient dignity and minimizes discomfort while carrying out duties such as bedpan change, diapering, emptying drainage bags and bathing.
● Commended for chart accuracy, effective team collaboration, patient relations and consistent delivery of empathetic care.
A Helping Hand Homecare, Washington, WA
Certified Nurse Assistant April 2018 to March 2019
● Provided nursing assistance to residents in their homes and nursing homes.
● Assisted residents with activities of daily living including helping with meals, transferring using assistive devices, bathing, dressing and grooming. AHAT Homecare, Washington, WA
Certified Nurse Assistant January 2014 to December 2017
● Ensuring the supervision of patients at all times.
● Assisting patients with basic personal care, and to move or walk around.
● Providing patients with emotional support.
● Monitoring patients' vital signs.
● Refraining from performing additional, unauthorized functions.
● Detecting changes in the condition of patients.
● Alerting nursing staff when patients need help.
● Maintaining records of care provided for patients.
● Maintaining confidentiality of patient information.
● Adhering to relevant policies, procedures, and standards. EDUCATION
Excel health careers, Kent Des Moines WA – CNA Program Competition - 50hrs classroom & 50hrs of Clinical Training (2018)
LIIT College, Limuru, Kenya – Diploma in IT and Entrepreneurship December 2015 Kinyogori High School, Limuru, Kenya – High School Diploma October 2012
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