Health care assistant

Kasamba Nachibanga

Health Care Assistant

Mobile: +260*********

Email: ***********@*****.***

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

Compassionate, kind, and highly competent individual, boasting excellent skills in following care plans in order to assist patients with their daily lives. Unmatched ability to provide assistance with personal needs, and counsel patients in order to ensure emotional wellbeing. Provided care to various patients with various health conditions in several wards including emergency, maternity, orthopedic, surgical, providing patient centered care based on clients’ health plan. With a heart for her patients has assisted elderly patients with personal tasks, while maintaining their dignity and counselled patients going through emotional crises.

NOTABLE ATTRIBUTES, SKILLS AND ABILITIES

• Hands-on experience in determining patients’ specific personalities, by engaging them in conversation. Deeply familiar with monitoring and supervising assigned patients in order to ensure their wellbeing.

• Talented in ensuring patients’ physical safety, by making sure that their environment is safe and secure. Well-versed in implementing and documenting each patient’s progress in accordance with set metrics.

• Qualified to observe and note changes in assigned patients’ conditions, and raise alarms when necessary.

• Adept at preparing nutritious meals for patients, in accordance with their specific meal programs.

• Able to professionally communicate with patients’ family members in order to provide them with feedback.

• Competent in accompanying patients to doctors’ appointments, and for recreational and community engagements

• Empathetic and a respectful approach towards patients. Effectively able to assist medical care teams in developing and implementing care plans

• Skilled in providing assistance with personal tasks such as bathing and toileting. Unmatched ability to administer medication in accordance with set treatment plans.

• Ability to work on own initiative and as part of a team. Excellent spoken and written communication.

• Dedicated and careful with thorough understanding of medical terminology.

• Excellent sense of humor and patience. A responsive and caring personality. NOTABLE WORK CONTRIBUTIONS AND SUCCESSES SCORED

• Devised a mobility assistance program, deemed 50% more accurate than the one already in place.

• Prepared meals in accordance with set dietary requirements, and ensure patients partake their food on time.

• Administered medication on time, in accordance with care plan. Assisted with mobility and rehabilitation tasks.

• Oversaw patients’ conditions in order to ensure their safety and wellbeing. Met with family members so as to discuss and understand patients’ needs.

• Checked assigned patients’ care plans in order to determine backgrounds and care strategies.

• Assisted patients with personal tasks such as toileting, grooming, and bathing. 1 P a g e

WORK EXPERIENCE

Private Home Health Career, Mrs.MusaukaSyatalimi – Zambia, 2013 – 2015 Notable Contributions and Successes Scored

• Provided intimate daily care to a 98-year-old mother, including changing diapers, giving bed baths, feeding, changing linen, dressing, toileting.

• Safely drove her to doctors’ appointments. Gave her medication according to doctor’s instructions.

• Purchased foods and cooked meals based on nutrients guidelines. Kept her company and arranged for social visits with family and friends. Health Care Assistant, University Teaching Hospital - Lusaka, Zambia, March 2014 – July 2019 Key Responsibilities

• Dump dusting and keeping the wards clean

• Giving bed pans to patients, disposing and disinfecting equipment

• Bed making and ensuring that patients have clean linen daily

• Taking blood and urine samples to the lab and collecting the results.

• Turning patients according to their care plan

• Taking patients for X-Ray, Echo, Scanning

• Taking and recording vitals.

• Assisting with wound cleaning

Nursing Care Assistant Sikanze Hospital – Lusaka, Zambia– August 2019 to date Key Responsibilities

• Play a key role in delivering quality healthcare services to individuals with clinical and nursing needs.

• Provided companionship to patients to assist them feels less lonely. Meeting patients’ needs in personal hygiene and nutrition.

• Ensuring a clean and hygienic environment in the ward. Dump dusting and keeping the wards clean.

• Accompanying patients to and from ward areas offering. Assisting the nurse to conduct last office.

• Giving bed pans to patients, disposing and disinfecting equipment. Bed making and ensuring that patients have clean linen daily.

• Taking vitals, such as patient’s blood pressure, pulse, temperature and respiratory rate.

• Taking patients for X-Ray and Scanning, ECG, Physiotherapy, Dialysis. Answer calls for help and observe changes in a patient’s condition or behavior

Monitoring patience and reporting any issue to other health care personnel

Ensuring patience comfort by changing bedding, filling water jugs and positioning items so they are in rich

Providing daily activities that they may have trouble doing on their on

Administering oral drugs according Doctors orders

Embracing new cultures, working with people from all walks of life and many from different culture background

Being friendly to develop a close relationship and bond with patients

Understand the important of confidentiality and keeping patients dignity what ever stage of their illness .

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

Health Care Assistant, Thames Centre of Excellence Ltd.

Counselling for HIV / AIDS, Ministry of Health

IELTS Academic UKVI Band 5.5, British Council Zambia Office

Care Bundles Certificate, On-line Course

Child Counselling for HIV / AIDS, University Teaching Hospital

HIV Rapid Testing Training Workshop, Ministry of Health

First Aid Certificate, Zambia Red Cross Society

REFERENCES

1. Mr. Moses Sakala

University Teaching Hospital

Clinical Instructor

Mobile: +260-***-***-***

Email: **************@*****.***

2. Emmanuel Marcus Musaka,

In charge of the ART Department

Sikanze Hospital – Lusaka

Mobile ;+260*********

Email; ***************@*****.***

3. Mr. MusoleMaleka, Business Coach

Economy Driver Business Project

Mobile: +260*********

Email: *************@*****.***

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