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EDUCATION
Certified Elder Care Administrator, Assisted Living Education Services, Anaheim, California, 2012
Twenty-nine years of on-the-job training by credentialed healthcare professionals, including Medical Personnel Pool, Honolulu, Hawaii and Visiting Nurses of Santa Barbara |
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Training in assisted living
for patients being discharged into my care, Rehabilitation Institute at
Santa Barbara
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| Heart Saver CPR, Medical Personnel Pool,
Honolulu,
Hawaii,
1984,
Red Cross re-certified annually |
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| AA (Honors), Honolulu
Community College, 1976 |
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PROFESSIONAL
EXPERIENCE
Special Skills:
- Companion, aide, personal assistant to clients with
cognitive deficits; planning, organizing, scheduling and monitoring of
daily activities, increasingly enhanced through computer
technology.
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- Extensive experience facilitating personal
development of clients; helping them work through their limitations to
enjoy adaptive recreation, athletics, continuing education, special
events, and other areas of community interaction.
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- Patient activity monitoring, utilizing my equipment, including motion sensors, as well as audio/video signal transmission to TVs in the home.
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- Extensive experience with health care financial assistance programs, including Medicare, Medi-Cal, In Home Supportive Services and community grants.
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- Comprehensive care planning, including staffing, problem solving and monitoring of care. Networking with the best caregivers, certified nursing assistants and home health care services available.
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General Highlights:
Assisted living and comprehensive
personal care including:
- transferring
patient from bed to wheel chair, to auto, to shower, to pool,
etc., including Hoyer lift transfers
- supported
walking, driving
and wheelchair transportation, including electric-lift equipped
vans
- personal hygiene, including assisted bathing and dressing
- range of motion, physical therapy and exercise programs for the disabled
- household duties including cooking, shopping, maintenance and property management
- research (including internet searches) on current
available therapies and programs
- accounts payable and receivable
- academic and computer skills tutoring
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- decubitus treatment and prevention
- monitoring of symptoms associated with various medical conditions
- medication management, including Coumadin
- assessing and finding solutions to problems caused
by incontinence, paralysis, dementia, etc.
- use of external and internal catheters
- gastroenteral nutrition (feeding machines)
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