Certified Nursing Assistant with 3 years in long-term care and skilled nursing, comfortable carrying a 12 to 15 resident assignment across full ADL support, vital signs, and safe transfers. Active on the Florida Nurse Aide Registry, current in BLS, and known for accurate end-of-shift charting and a calm approach with residents living with dementia.
- Provide direct care to 12 to 15 residents per shift, assisting with bathing, dressing, grooming, toileting, and feeding while protecting each resident's dignity and privacy.
- Measure and record vital signs, weights, and intake and output each shift, reporting changes in condition to the charge nurse promptly.
- Perform safe bed-to-wheelchair and bed-to-chair transfers using gait belts and Hoyer lifts, with zero resident falls or lift injuries over an 18-month stretch.
- Reposition bedbound residents every two hours and follow skin-care protocols, contributing to a unit pressure-injury rate held below facility target.
- Supported activities of daily living (ADLs) for 20-plus residents on a memory-care unit, redirecting and de-escalating residents with dementia during care.
- Charted ADL completion, meals, and behavior notes in PointClickCare, keeping documentation current before end of shift.
- Answered call lights within facility response standards and assisted with ambulation and range-of-motion exercises to support mobility.
- Followed standard precautions and proper PPE and hand-hygiene practices, with no infection-control deficiencies cited during the period.
Activities of Daily Living (ADLs): bathing, dressing, grooming, toileting, feeding · Vital signs (blood pressure, temperature, pulse, respiration) · Patient transfers and mobility (gait belt, Hoyer lift, repositioning) · Intake and output (I&O) and weight monitoring · Skin care, pressure-injury prevention, and fall prevention · Infection control, standard precautions, and PPE · Charting and EHR (PointClickCare), HIPAA compliance · Dementia and memory care, call-light response
- Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA), Florida Board of Nursing; active on the Florida Nurse Aide Registry
- Basic Life Support (BLS), American Heart Association