Health Care Aide
Nursing Home Practicum
04.2024 - 09.2024
- As a health care aide in work practicum,assisted clients with daily living needs to maintain self-esteem and general wellness.
- Helped clients manage and reach individual goals, supporting independent progression and social skills.
- Enhanced the quality of care for clients by providing personalized support and assistance with daily living activities.
- Interacted with clients and reported any changes in behavior,appetite and appearance
- Maintained a logbook and checked off scheduled caregiving times such as bathing times, tub sanitizing times and recorded amount of solid and liquid intakes and bowel movements
- Transferred clients back and forth from bed to chair and wheelchair,using approved lifting techniques and mechanical lifts :hoyer,stand ceiling lifts and belt lift.
- Bathed clients, groomed and attended to personal hygiene,toileted,dressed and undressed them and fed their meals and emptied colostomy bags and cleaned catheter line.
- Provided care to elderly including some clients with mental and physical disabilities, dementia and Alzheimer's
