Azucena Palacios

•Provide dedicated at-home assistance with Activities of Daily Living (ADLs), including bathing, dressing, and grooming

•Manage meal preparation and light housekeeping to maintain a safe and sanitary living environment.

•Offer emotional support and companionship while monitoring health status and reporting changes.

• Assisted residents with activities of daily living (ADLs) including bathing, grooming, dressing, toileting, and feeding
• Monitored and reported vital signs such as blood pressure, temperature, pulse, and respiration
• Supported mobility and transfers using gait belts and mechanical lifts while following safety protocols
• Provided compassionate care to elderly and post-acute patients, including those with dementia and limited mobility
• Maintained a clean and safe patient environment following infection control guidelines
• Communicated effectively with nurses and healthcare team to report changes in patient condition
• Documented patient care accurately and timely per facility policies
• Respected patient dignity, privacy, and HIPAA regulations at all times

• Performs preventative foot patrol of all hospital buildings, perimeters, and parking lots to ensure their physical security against theft, intrusion, vandalism, and other damage-producing causes.
• Protects hospital assets and safeguards the physical welfare of patients, employees, and the public.
• Answers calls for service, performs scheduled shift duties, handles lost/found and deceased patient property and enforces parking regulations.
• Responds to emergency calls for assistance.
• Provides night time escorts to ensure safety of employees and visitors.
• Conducts field interviews and initiates investigations of suspicious persons, suspicious circumstances, and unauthorized persons observed on hospital property during the daytime and night time hours.
• Demonstrates professionalism, communication, and compassion concerning human dignity.
• Performs searches of patients, their property, visitors and their belongings. This occurs when a policy has been violated or there are circumstances that suggest a violation of hospital policy has or will occur.
• Performs electronic wanding of all persons when hospital policy has been violated or circumstances suggest that a policy violation will occur.
• Detains persons trespassing or committing crimes within my jurisdiction, until Law Enforcement arrives.
• Performs morgue escorts, which include assisting pick up from the morgue, picking up from a bed in the hospital or the emergency room, and also transferring to the morgue pickup.
• Will assist with helicopter pickups and delivery of patients.
• Will assist with transport protection with law enforcement for their forensic patients.
• Will assist with transport protection with Child Protection Services (CPS) when they have custody of a child that is being transported with them away from family.
• During Covid-19 outbreak, served as a screener for incoming patients and visitors.
• Enforces rules, regulations, and laws.
• Completes complaint reports and documents other related incidents as needed.
• Weekly hours worked: 40hrs+

• Managing transactions with customers using cash registers
• Scanning goods and ensuring pricing is accurate
• Collecting payments whether in cash or credit
• Able to resolve customer issues and provide excellent guest service attentive to the needs of their customers and ensure their satisfaction
• Keep store organized

• Works closely with clinical staff, and frequently interact with patients
• Establish safety standards and regulations that should be followed, whether it’s using cleaning products or handling body fluids/preventing infection transmission
• Continuous training to achieve an infection-free environment
• Performed a variety of general cleaning tasks to maintain patient rooms, offices, hallways and other assigned areas of the facility
• Distributes and tracks clean linens to user departments and maintains stock levels on nursing floors
• Essential Functions Dusts furniture, woodwork and equipment and dust-mops floors
• Polishes and cleans fixtures in rooms and bathrooms
• Transported trash to maintain facility cleanliness.