Dian Byfield
Calgary,AB
Summary
Personal Care Aide experienced in assisting clients with mental impairments or physical limitations to manage everyday tasks. Skilled in geriatric care and providing companionship and direct assistance to cognitively impaired clients. Level-headed Healthcare professional dedicated to providing quality patient care, companionship and support. Remains calm and effective in difficult and stressful situations. Defuses stressful situations and manages behavioral needs with grace.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Health Care Aide
Columbia Forest Long Term Care
11.2018 - 02.2023
- Provided assistance in daily living activities by dressing, grooming, bathing, and toileting patients.
- Maintained clean, safe, and well-organized patient environment.
- Assisted patients with dressing, grooming and feeding needs, helping to overcome, and adapt to mobility restrictions.
- Kept accurate records of patients' care, condition, and progress.
- Assisted in feeding patients by offering fluids and snacks and recording amounts consumed in logbook
- Agreed to take on additional shifts and extra hours during busy periods and holidays to maintain proper staffing and floor coverage.
- Assisted with feeding and monitored intake to help patients achieve nutritional objectives.
- Promoted good oral and personal hygiene by aiding patients with shaving, bathing, and teeth brushing.
Education
Certificate - Personal Support Worker
St.louis
Kitchener, ON11.2018
Skills
- Conducting Intakes
- Direct Patient Care
- Electronic Charting
- Condition Monitoring
- Documenting Behaviors
- Mobility Assistance
- Patient Lifting
- Observing Responses
- Transporting Patients
- Reliable Team Player
Languages
English
Native or Bilingual
Certification
- standard first aid and CPR/AED level C Training - 2023
- substantially equivalent in HCA directory Training - 2023
- Personal Support Worker, St.Louis - 2018
- chain of transmission and risk assessment Training - 2018
- work health and safety awareness Training - 2018
- gentle persuasive approach in dementia care Training - 2018
- fundamental of hospice palliative care Training - 2018
- facilitating effective eat in dysphasia Training - 2018
- english grade 12 Training - 2017
- geriatrics home nursing course Training - 2012
Timeline
Health Care Aide
Columbia Forest Long Term Care
11.2018 - 02.2023
Certificate - Personal Support Worker
St.louis
- geriatrics home nursing course Training - 2012
- english grade 12 Training - 2017
- chain of transmission and risk assessment Training - 2018
- work health and safety awareness Training - 2018
- gentle persuasive approach in dementia care Training - 2018
- fundamental of hospice palliative care Training - 2018
- facilitating effective eat in dysphasia Training - 2018
- standard first aid and CPR/AED level C Training - 2023
- substantially equivalent in HCA directory Training - 2023
- PSW, st.louis - 2018
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