Alice Wachira
Mississauga,ON
Summary
Dependable employee establishes rapport and trust with patients and helps complete daily living tasks to enhance quality of life. Driven to prioritize individual needs with attention to important details. Valued as accommodating, kind-hearted team player dedicated to expanding knowledge and responsibilities. Skilled Care Provider assisting elderly, convalescents, or persons with disabilities with daily living activities in-home or within care facility. Keep house by making beds, doing laundry, washing dishes and preparing meals. Advise families and healthcare team regarding health concerns, nutrition, cleanliness and household activities.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
Work History
Trained at Nairobi metropolitan hospital as a patient care attendant
Butterfly Home Care
01.2021 - 01.2022
- Daily living activities such as assisting with serving meals to patients as well as feeding patients
- Provide patient comfort by utilizing resources and materials, transporting patients, and reporting observations of the patient to the nursing supervisor
- Provide patients personal hygiene by giving bedpans, urinals, helping with showers and baths and housekeeping services by keeping the areas work neat
- Protecting organizations' value by keeping patient information confidential
- Safety awareness and Turning and positioning bedridden patients regularly
- Set up medical equipment and assist with some medical procedures
- Booking patients appointments at clinics and Practicing infection prevention measures
- Documentation of reports and follow-up care with doctors
Home based Care
01.2019 - 12.2021
- Performed minor physical therapy exercises with patients utilizing explicit instructions from certified therapists
- Regularly checked in on clients on my time off to make sure that all was well
- Bathing residents and helping with meal times
- Providing care for patient with terminally illness
Patient Care Attendant
Gertrude's Children's Hospital
08.2013 - 07.2018
- Provide patients personal hygiene by giving bedpans, urinals, helping with showers and baths and housekeeping services by keeping the areas work neat, orderly and cleaning using buffer, vacuum and sucker machines mostly night shift
- Providing daily living activities such as assisting with serving meals to patients as well as feeding patients where necessary
- Provide patient comfort by utilizing resources and materials, transporting patients, and reporting observations of the patient to the nursing supervisor
- Protecting organizations' value by keeping patient information confidential
- Safety awareness
- Turning and positioning bedridden patients regularly
- Set up medical equipment and assist with some medical procedures
- Booking patients appointments at clinics
- Practicing infection prevention measures
- Documentation of reports and follow-up care with doctors
Internship - Community Development and Social Work
Gertrude's Children's Hospital
07.2016 - 08.2017
- Social assessment/screening of patients at the comprehensive care clinic and developing appropriate problem-solving plan for intervention based on the social needs of the patients, this was done under supervision
- Specialized special support such as identifying, and enrolling needy clients on food basket support
- Performed social duties on mobilization of health promotions in children home and in the slums areas in helping and reaching out to our clients
- Assessment and implementation of policies and procedures on group formation and registration as Government recognized entities
- Monitoring and reporting of all patients enrolled and exited at the Comprehensive Care Clinic in Muthaiga, Githogoro, Komarocks, and Donholm
- Participated in medical camps, outreach organized by the hospital
- Data entry
Education
No Degree - Health Care Assistant
Nairobi Metropolitan Hospital
Nairobi01.2022
Skills
- Volunteer
- Travelling
- Reading
- Mentorship
- Ability to work under pressure
- Ability to work under minimum pressure
- Flexible to handle and cope with new challenges
- Ability to listen and understand the needs of different people
- Hardworking
- Innovative
- Mobility Assistance
- Incident Reporting
- Meal Preparation
- Care Plan Adherence
- Documentation
- Respectful and Compassionate
- First Aid and Safety
- Patient Care
- [Language] Fluency
- Flexible Schedule
Languages
English
Limited Working
Timeline
Trained at Nairobi metropolitan hospital as a patient care attendant
Butterfly Home Care
01.2021 - 01.2022
Home based Care
01.2019 - 12.2021
Internship - Community Development and Social Work
Gertrude's Children's Hospital
07.2016 - 08.2017
Patient Care Attendant
Gertrude's Children's Hospital
08.2013 - 07.2018
No Degree - Health Care Assistant
Nairobi Metropolitan Hospital
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