Patience Dube
Bulawayo ,Zimbabwe
Summary
Conscientious Care Assistant providing compassionate care and support to patients in home care and care homes settings. Improves daily life through considered assistance in daily tasks, promoting optimum wellbeing and comfort at all times.
Overview
2
2
years of professional experience
Work History
Healthcare Assistant
Maka Homecare
Harare, Zimbabwe
06 2023 - Current
- Provided personal care such as showering, dressing, oral hygiene and shaving
- Monitored health and wellbeing of patients
- Maintained optimal safety standards throughout and prioritizing riskreductions
- Administered medication, treatments and monitored patients for any sideeffects
- Ensured the accurate completion of all patient administration anddocumentation
- Assisted with feeding upon request
- Monitored patients conditions by recording vital sings and reporting to thesenior nurses
- Helped patients to around and making them comfortable
- Provided basic wound care with support from nursing team
- Provided bed baths, bed pans and mobility assistance
- Maintained a clean and safe environment
- Assisted senior nurses with admitting and discharging patients
- Carried doctors and nurses orders
- Complied with legal and safety requirements at all times
- Maintained up to date patient charts
- Achievements
- Used transferable nursing skills, reduced workload by 20%
- Receiving 90% positive feedback from service users and their families forcaring attitude, exceeding the team's goal by 60%
- Commended for completing work above expected standards
- Liaised with 10+ family members and medical support structures to ascertainresidents' care-related requirements improved social integration by 70%
- Scheduled and ran errands for shopping groceries as needed, maintained fully stocked pantry
- Prepared 4+ adequate, nutritional meals and assisting with feeding uponrequest boosted service user dignity and respect by 95%.
Primary Care Nurse
Ralstein Home For The Aged
10.2022 - 12.2022
- Performing initial patient physical consultations before physicians examines the patients
- Recording symptoms of illness and injury
- Participating in healthcare promotions, disease prevention, treatments and rehabilitation services
- Delivering travel advice to elderly patients and relevant vaccines
- Following doctors and senior nurses orders
- Supporting patients through personal care tasks such as toileting, showering and feeding, maintaining sensitivity to needs, and ensuring comfort, dignity, and safety throughout
- Providing compassionate care to elderly patients with various health conditions
- Providing palliative care to an individuals with terminal illnesses
- Assisting with pain management techniques
- Working flexible hours across night, weekend and holiday shifts
- Monitoring an individual's physical and emotional well-being, promptly reporting changes, and providing suggestions for care plan adjustments
- Delivering high-quality care to patients with disabilities, achieving care plan objectives
- Assisting in all aspects of personal care, retaining comfort and dignity.
- Supporting numerous individuals in maximizing physical, intellectual, emotional, and social capabilities through individualized care plans
- Administering medication to patients according to their individual care plan
- Leading in computer technology systems and reading electronic records
Education
Zimbabwe Redcross Society Nurse Aid Certificate Advanced First Aid Community Based Health Care Certificate Alison Online (2023) - Nursing
Zimbabwe Redcross society
Certificate - o Mental health studies
Allison
03/2024 - 03/2024
Diploma In Care Giving -
Allison
Skills
- Excellent written & verbal communication
- Interpersonal skills
- Time management
- Organization
- Patience
- Physical strength
- Care plan development
- Elderly care
- Documentation
- Emotional Intelligence
- Ability to multitask
- Computer literacy
Additional Information
- Valid passport
- valid license
- Band 7 ielts score
- Willing to do any tests required and police clearance
Accomplishments
- used transferable nursing skills to reduce work by 20%
- Receiving 90% positive feedback from service users and their families forcaring attitude, exceeding the team's goal by 60%
- commended for completing work above expected standards
Timeline
Primary Care Nurse
Ralstein Home For The Aged
10.2022 - 12.2022
Healthcare Assistant
Maka Homecare
06 2023 - Current
Zimbabwe Redcross Society Nurse Aid Certificate Advanced First Aid Community Based Health Care Certificate Alison Online (2023) - Nursing
Zimbabwe Redcross society
Certificate - o Mental health studies
Allison
03/2024 - 03/2024
Diploma In Care Giving -
Allison
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