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Bonnie Pickard

Summary

Patient-focused Home Support Worker with experience in providing compassionate and comprehensive care to clients as well as family members who require additional emotional support.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience

Work History

Day Program Worker

Home Care Queens
09.2021 - Current
  • Provides support to families and caregivers by offering a variety of group and individual activities in a safe and comfortable environment.
  • Supports clients with activities of daily living.
  • Monitor clients for any changes in physical and emotional behaviors.
  • Reporting any changes in clients overall health status to supervisor and maintaining open communication with families.

Home Support Worker

Home Care Queens
06.2021 - 09.2021
  • Enhanced client comfort by providing personal care services such as bathing, grooming, and dressing.
  • Improved independence and quality of life for clients through assistance with daily living tasks.
  • Monitored vital signs and reported health concerns to healthcare professionals in a timely manner.
  • Developed trusting relationships with clients, establishing rapport and open communication.

Resident Care Worker

Beach Grove Home
06.2014 - 06.2021
  • Caring for individuals as a whole including physical, emotional, spiritual, and psycho social needs.
  • Monitor, report and record changes in health status of each individual.
  • Interacted kindly with patients and families and displayed positive, outgoing attitude, resulting in establishment of long-term, professional relationships.
  • Kept close eye on behavior and emotional responses of clients to address concerns and protect each person from any harm.

Education

Resident Care Worker Certificate -

Marguerite Connolly Training & Consulting
Charlottetown, PE
06.2014

Skills

    • Privacy and confidentiality
    • Follow person center care approach
    • Work with compassion and empathy towards clients and family
    • Ability to work individually and as team player
      • Able to adapt to different situations
      • Dementia and Alzheimer's experience
      • Knowledge of PIECES to access people and situations

Additional training

  • Caring for Persons with Dementia course
  • DementiAbility Workshop
  • Teepa Snow Positive Approach to Care Seminar
  • Gentle Persuasive Approach
  • TLR Assessor Training
  • WHIMIS
  • Standard First Aid Certificate
  • Learning Essential Approaches to Palliative Care (LEAP)
  • Dementia 101 and 102

Timeline

Day Program Worker

Home Care Queens
09.2021 - Current

Home Support Worker

Home Care Queens
06.2021 - 09.2021

Resident Care Worker

Beach Grove Home
06.2014 - 06.2021

Resident Care Worker Certificate -

Marguerite Connolly Training & Consulting
Bonnie Pickard