Assistant Certified Nursing
Resume:
Tiffany N. Allen
Apt.** Lewisburg, WV 24901
*************@*****.***
OBJECTIVE
I am dedicated as a nursing assistant, healthcare service-focused professional ready to transition into a nurse.
Highly motivated to launch nursing career; future goals include education leading to ultimately, a RN license.
I'm a reliable worker with the ability to quickly learn new concepts and skills.
Also backed by a solid work history, reputation as a team player and passion for helping others.
Background includes experience caring for terminally ill, alheizmer, and geriatric patients.
WORK EXPERIENCE
CERTIFIED NURSING ASSISTANT
12/2012 – 01/2012, Brier Rehabilitation Ronceverte, WV
• Answer patients' call signals.
• Bathe, groom, shave, dress, and/or drape patients to prepare them for appointments, everyday functions, or examination.
• Clean rooms and change linens.
• Feed patients who are unable to feed themselves.
• Prepare, serve, and collect food trays.
• Provide patient care by supplying and emptying bed pans, applying dressings and supervising exercise routines.
• Provide patients with help walking, exercising, and moving in and out of bed.
• Transport patients to treatment units, using a wheelchair or stretcher.
• Turn and re-position bedridden patients, alone or with assistance, to prevent bedsores.
• Work as part of a medical team that examines and treat patients.
• Answer phones and direct visitors.
• Collect specimens such as urine, feces, or sputum.
• Deliver messages, documents and specimens.
CERTIFIED NURSING ASSISTANT
10/2011 - 11/2011, Greenbrier Manor, Fairlea, WV
• Answer patients' call signals.
• Bathe, groom, shave, dress, patients to prepare them for appointments, everyday functions, or examinations.
• Clean rooms and change linens.
• Feed patients who are unable to feed themselves.
• Provide patient care by supplying and emptying bed pans.
• Provide patients with help walking, exercising, and moving in and out of bed.
• Transport patients to treatment units, using a wheelchair or stretcher.
• Turn and re-position bedridden patients, alone or with assistance, to prevent bedsores.
• Work as part of a medical team that examines and treats patients.
• Answer phones and direct visitors.
• Observe patients' conditions, measuring and recording food and liquid intake and output and vital signs, and report changes to professional staff.
• Set up equipment such as oxygen tanks, nebulizers, and urinal bottles.
CERTIFIED NURSING ASSISTANT
03/2010 – 11/2011, Richfield Recovery Care Center, Salem, VA
• Answer patients' call signals.
• Bathe, groom, shave, dress, and/or drape patients to prepare them for appointments, everyday functions, or examination.
• Clean rooms and change linens.
• Feed patients who are unable to feed themselves.
• Prepare, serve, and collect food trays.
• Provide patient care by supplying and emptying bed pans, applying dressings and supervising exercise routines.
• Provide patients with help walking, exercising, and moving in and out of bed.
• Transport patients to treatment units, using a wheelchair or stretcher.
• Turn and re-position bedridden patients, alone or with assistance, to prevent bedsores.
• Work as part of a medical team that examines and treats patients.
• Answer phones and direct visitors.
• Deliver messages, documents and specimens.
• Explain instructions to patients and family members.
• Observe patients' conditions, measuring and recording food and liquid intake and output and vital signs, and report changes to professional staff.
• Set up equipment such as oxygen tanks, nebulizers and urinal bottles.
CASHIER
10/2009 – 01/2010, Toys R Us, Roanoke, VA
• Answer customers' questions, and provide information on promotions or discounts.
• Bag, box, wrap merchandise, and prepare packages for customers’.
• Count money in cash drawers at the beginning of shifts to ensure that amounts are correct and that there is adequate change.
• Establish or identify prices of goods, services and tabulate bills using calculators, cash registers, or optical price scanners.
• Greet customers entering establishments.
• Issue receipts, refunds, credits, or change due to customers.
• Maintain clean and orderly checkout areas.
• Monitor checkout stations to ensure that they have adequate cash available and that they are staffed appropriately.
• Offer customers carry-out service at the completion of transactions.
• Process merchandise returns and exchanges.
• Receive payment by cash, check, credit cards, vouchers, or automatic debits.
• You can request for information or assistance by using the paging systems.
• Resolve customer complaints.
• Sort, count, and wrap currency and coins.
• Calculate total payments received during a time period, and reconcile this with total sales.
• Sell warranty and other items to customers.
• Stock shelves, and mark prices on shelves and items.
HOME HEALTH AIDE
09/2009 – 12/2009, Griswold Special Care, Roanoke, VA
• Change dressings.
• Check patients' pulse, temperature and respiration.
• Assist patients in simple prescribed exercises and in the use of braces or artificial limbs.
• Maintain records of patient care, condition, progress, and problems in order to report and discuss observations with a supervisor or case manager.
• Massage patients and apply preparations and treatments, such as liniment, alcohol rubs, and heat stimulation.
• Provide patients with help moving in and out of beds, baths, wheelchairs or automobiles, and with dressing and grooming.
• Accompany clients to doctors' offices and on other trips outside the home, providing transportation, assistance and companionship.
• Change bed linens, wash and iron patients' laundry, and clean patients' quarters.
Entertain, converse with, or read aloud to patients to keep them mentally healthy and alert.
• Perform a variety of duties as requested by client, such as obtaining household supplies and running errands.
• Independent living and adaptation to disability or illness.
CERTIFIED NURSING ASSISTANT
09/2007 – 10/2009, SALEM HEALTH and REHAB, Salem, VA
• Answer patients' call signals.
• Bathe, groom, shave, dress, and/or drape patients to prepare them for everyday living, appointments, or examinations.
• Clean rooms and change linens.
• Feed patients who are unable to feed themselves.
• Prepare, serve, and collect food trays.
• Provide patient care by supplying and emptying bed pans, applying dressings and supervising exercise routines.
• Provide patients with help walking, exercising, and moving in and out of bed.
• Transport patients to treatment units, using a wheelchair or stretcher.
• Turn and re-position bedridden patients, alone or with assistance, to prevent bedsores.
• Work as part of a medical team that examines and treats patients.
• Answer phones and direct visitors.
• Collect specimens such as urine, feces, or sputum.
• Deliver messages, documents and specimens.
• Explain instructions to patients and family members.
• Observe patients' conditions, measuring and recording food and liquid intake and output
• Vital signs, and report changes to professional staff.
• Set up equipment such as oxygen tanks, nebulizer machines and urinal bottles.
EDUCATION
Virginia Western Community College | Roanoke, VA, Some College Coursework Completed, Nursing, 08/ 2008- 01/2009
Certification: Generation Solutions | Roanoke, VA Nursing Assistant, 08/2007 – 09/ 2007
New River Community College | Lewisburg, WV, Some College Coursework Completed, General Studies, 09/2006 - 05/2007
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
SKILLS
• MS Word ,Excel, and PowerPoint
• Activities of Daily Living (ADL)
• Quality Patient Care
• Certified Nursing Assistant
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