Kaitlyn M.

Objective Compassionate, resourceful, and reliable patient care specialist, possessing over 15 years of professional and personal experience in home, nursing facility, and assisted living settings, seeking to provide the highest quality care to elderly and disabled clients. Skills • Provide thorough and careful assistance with daily living needs including bathing, grooming, and dressing. • Purchase, prepare, and serve food for patients, following special prescribed diets. • Administer prescribed oral medications under written direction of physician or as directed by home care nurse. • Maintain records of patient care, condition, progress, and problems in order to report and discuss observations with a supervisor or case manager. Check and chart patients' pulse, temperature, and respiration. • Massage patients and apply preparations and treatments as necessary, being attentive to patient’s hygiene, proper positioning, and injury prevention. • Assist patients into and out of bed, automobile, or wheelchair, to lavatory, and up and down stairs. • Accompany ambulatory patients outside home, to medical appointments and social engagement, serving as guide, companion, and aide. • Provide social support and companionship to clients, many whom are completely housebound and often do not receive many visitors. Entertain patients; read aloud; and play board, card, and other stimulatory games. • Perform light housekeeping including laundry, dishwashing, and general household

My philosophy is that because our parents gave us the best years of their lives, we owe them a loving and supportive environment now. I cared for my grandmother and mother, which naturally flowed into a career of a caregiving profession. I am very compassionate, kind, and understanding with many years of caring for dementia and Alzheimer's elders. I do all ADLs, housekeeping, am a great cook, have a dependable car, and will always treat your loved one as my own. I am available now. Will consider live in and 24 hour shifts.