Gurvir Kaur
Summary
Dedicated and caring Personal Support Worker (PSW) with almost two year of experience in long-term care facilities, offering seniors and people with disabilities high-quality care, competent in providing mobility support, emotional support, and assistance with everyday living activities, renowned for cultivating close bonds with families, residents, and medical staff in order to provide the highest level of comfort and dignity. Expertise in delivering emotional and personal support care. Seeking a challenging position as a Personal Support Worker/ to utilize my clinical expertise and compassionate nature in providing exceptional care to patients.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Personal Support Worker
Everest Healthcare
03.2025 - Current
- Assisted clients with daily living activities to enhance independence and quality of life.
- Administered prescribed medications and monitored client health conditions for changes.
- Collaborated with healthcare professionals to develop and implement personalized care plans.
- Provided emotional support and companionship to clients, fostering a positive environment.
Home support worker
02.2024 - 12.2024
- Help clients perform personal hygiene tasks.
- Coordinate transportation to and from doctors’ appointments.
- Keep clients engaged with their friends and family.
- Create a daily routine based on the clients’ special needs.
- Do grocery shopping and prepare meals.
- Medication distribution.
- Record daily activities.
- Visit residents according to schedule visits.
- Turns and reposition bedbound residents.
PSW
Oakwood Park lodge
09.2022 - 12.2024
- Assist residents with bathing, dressing, toileting, and grooming, ensuring dignity and comfort.
- Support mobility and transfers, including using mechanical lifts, walkers, and wheelchairs.
- Provide compassionate companionship to reduce loneliness and promote social engagement.
- Ensure a safe and clean environment, adhering to infection control and safety protocols.
- Work closely with families, nurses, and other healthcare professionals to develop personalized care plans.
- Maintain detailed documentation of residents' care, behavior, and any incidents.
Placement
Millenium Taril Manor Niagara Falls
- Assist clients with arrival & departure.
- Assist the clients to participate in programs either through supervision, leadership, or encouragement.
- Plan, implement and evaluate recreational programs.
- Assist and move towards leadership in coordinating therapeutic interventions.
- Involvement in set-up of programs, preparation, serving of meals and refreshments.
- Provide stimulation for clients on a one-to-one basis as assigned by the Student Placement Supervisor and/or Coordinator.
- Develop and maintain excellent working relationships with staff, volunteers, caregivers and clients.
- Practice and develop skills in areas of written and verbal communications, planning, evaluation of interventions, time management and programming.
Registered Nurse
Guru Nanak college, Dehlon
01.2019 - 01.2021
- Provided safe mobility support to help patients move around personal and public spaces.
- Turned and positioned bedbound patients to prevent bedsores and maintain comfort levels.
- Consulted with supervisors to assess cases and plan strategies for enhancing care.
- Monitored client vital signs, administered medications, and tracked behaviors to keep healthcare supervisor well-informed.
- Assisted with dress guidance, grooming, meal preparation and medication reminders.
Skills
- Patient-Centered Care
- Help with ADLs (activities of daily living)
- Mobility and Transfers (wheelchair, home lift, etc)
- Care for Alzheimer's and Dementia
- Assistance with Medication
- Safety and Infection Prevention
- Incontinence care
- Assistance with Meal Preparation and Feeding
- Support on an emotional and social level
- Household Organization
- PSW skills; Mobility Support & Range of Motion Exercises, Ability to Lift Clients, Assisting with Activities of Daily Living (ADLs), medication reminders and resident record management
Certification
- Nclex Rn passed
- Palliative Care Multidiscipline – Niagara College
- Gerontology - Niagara College
- General Nursing and Midwifery (3 year - program) Nightingale College of Nursing
- Bachelor of Nursing, Guru Nanak College of Nursing
- General persuasive approach certificate
- Certified First aid and CPR provider.
- TB Negative certificate.
- Vulnerable Sector checked certificate.
- Covid vaccination certificate.
- Mask fit
- Food handling
- Lift and transfer
- WHIMS
Languages
English
Full Professional
Awards
President's Honor Roll, Niagara College (Palliative Care Nursing)
Training
- Training in Govt Hospital, Ludhiana, India
- Provide assessments, nursing diagnosis, and evidenced-based nursing care to patients and clients
- Collaborated with physicians to quickly assess patients and deliver appropriate treatment while managing rapidly changing conditions.
- Documented nursing services were provided and uploaded to comprehensive health records and billing tracking systems.
- Assisted patients in performing routine recovery and mobility exercises, providing support when getting in and out of bed and walking and stretching.
CUST
Availability: Full-time, Weekdays, Weekends
Timeline
Personal Support Worker
Everest Healthcare
03.2025 - Current
Home support worker
02.2024 - 12.2024
PSW
Oakwood Park lodge
09.2022 - 12.2024
Registered Nurse
Guru Nanak college, Dehlon
01.2019 - 01.2021
Placement
Millenium Taril Manor Niagara Falls
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