Rita Kugonza
Cornwall,ON
Summary
To be a Skilled Personal Support Worker assisting seniors, persons with behavioral challenges, or persons with disabilities with daily living activities in-home or within care facility. Keep house by making beds, doing laundry, washing dishes and helping in meal preparations.
Overview
1
1
year of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
PSW (student Placement)
OCAPDD/Open Hands
11 Balmoral Ave Cornwall, ON K6H 3G3
06.2024 - Current
- Maintained a safe environment for patients by following proper infection control procedures during personal care, laundry, and the house keeping tasks.
- Documented patient progress accurately and thoroughly in accordance with regulatory requirements, ensuring continuity of care between shifts or when transitioning between providers. Ensuring that all behavioral changes are documented (when they happened and what might have triggered as well as what was done to calm the client) and most especially the new ones that have never been exhibited before.
- Supported patients'' emotional well-being through active listening, counseling and empathetic communication while respecting privacy and confidentiality.
- Assisted with food preparation, dinning set up, and monitored intake to help patients achieve nutritional objectives.
- Enhanced patient comfort by assisting with daily living activities such as bathing, dressing, and grooming.
- Built strong relationships with clients to deliver emotional support and companionship.
- Maintained clients'' dignity by providing discreet assistance with personal hygiene tasks, such as toileting and incontinence care.
- Facilitated mobility assistance for patients with limited physical capabilities, utilizing proper body mechanics to prevent injuries for both parties involved.
GROCERY ASSOCIATE
WALMART SUPERCENTER
11.2023 - Current
- Viz picking, filling aisles, cleaning of work area, safety sweeps, binning over stock.
Volunteer
alzheimer’s society
09.2023 - Current
- Administration work such as photocopying, selling of tickets, File compilation for new volunteers.
PSW (student placement)
Sandfield Place
Cornwall, ON
05.2024 - 06.2024
- Doing tub baths as well as cleaning and setting the tub room for the next use.
- Bed baths.
- Set up, cleaning of dinning and helping with feeding
- Monitoring and filing of portable oxygen tanks
- Oral care, stoma care
- Recorded status and duties completed in logbooks for management.
- Positioning and repositioning of residents every two hours,
- Serving the AM, PM and HS snacks,
- Am and HS care
- Sorting of laundry between personal resident clothes and general use towels and face clothes
- Emptying of catheter bags and measuring of the urine, changing briefs
- Monitoring every hour for fall risk residents
- Charting
- Documented patient progress accurately and thoroughly in accordance with regulatory requirements, ensuring continuity of care between shifts or when transitioning between providers.
- Maintained a safe environment for patients by following proper infection control procedures during personal care tasks.
- Built strong relationships with clients to deliver emotional support and companionship.
- Maintained clients dignity by providing discreet assistance with personal hygiene tasks, such as toileting and incontinence care.
PSW (student clinical)
Glen Stor Dun Lodge
03.2024 - 04.2024
- Used to do tub baths, partial bed baths, oral care, changing of briefs, feeding, positioning and repositioning of residents, ad toileting.
Education
St James Catholic Education Centre
5 Catherine Street, Smiths Falls, ON K7A 3Z9 07.2024
Post graduate Diploma in Human Resources -
Uganda Management Institute
Skills
- Time management
- Personal Care Worker
- Fast Learner
- Problem solving & conflict management
- Flexible
- Compassionate Care
- Emotional Support
- Toileting support
- Housekeeping tasks
- Behavioral Management
- Elderly Care
- Care Plan Adherence
Certification
- First Aid Certificate
- Food Handling Certificate
- Gentle Persuasive Approach certificate
- Mental Health First Aid Certificate
- FEEDING Certificate
- WHMIS Certificate
- IPAC
- Work health and safety awareness 4steps
- PSW (to be received by 04/07/24)
Current Role
personal support worker
Languages
English
Full Professional
Timeline
PSW (student Placement)
OCAPDD/Open Hands
06.2024 - Current
PSW (student placement)
Sandfield Place
05.2024 - 06.2024
PSW (student clinical)
Glen Stor Dun Lodge
03.2024 - 04.2024
GROCERY ASSOCIATE
WALMART SUPERCENTER
11.2023 - Current
Volunteer
alzheimer’s society
09.2023 - Current
St James Catholic Education Centre
Post graduate Diploma in Human Resources -
Uganda Management Institute