Special Needs Caregiver Resume Example

I am an enthusiastic student eager to contribute to team success through hard work, attention to detail and excellent organizational skills. I have a clear understanding of care giving and am learning nursing duties. I am motivated to learn, grow and excel in an eventual registered nursing profession(BSN). Having experience caring 24/7 for a child that has been combative and aggressive since 2006, multiple classes in psychology, and psychiatric care, makes an ideal candidate to work in the psychiatric unit of the VA. In addition, I have had family members belonging to the U.S. Air Force and Royal Canadian Air Force, who have since passed.

• I am a parent to a 15 year old 6'2" boy that has been combative and aggressive since he was 2 years old. I have had many visits with experts in primary care, neurology and psychiatry who have all had a different opinion of what my child needs. In 2017, my son started to have seizures, meaning his first seizure he has was in the back seat of my car and lasted 10 minutes. He has had two very large seizures since 2017, one that lasted 5 minutes and another lasting 1.5 minutes, which is incredible progress. He is now stable and now has the best behaviors than he has ever displayed.
• I have also cared diligently for an aging parent who had declining health and was not proactive in her health management. My mom lost her battle with muscular dystrophy and congestive heart failure on April 15, 2013. My early intervention in her health care helped her live to 2013, she was 63 years old.
• I have cared for a woman with advanced stage Parkinson's. Although I believe I built good rapport with this 87 year old client, she did not know who I was and regularly got angry, would yell profanities and tell me to go home. She would speak to me in Farsi and then English. The goal was to find the right medication for her to get her to sleep through the night without the added expense of a private pay night caregiver. This goal was met.

I am in Anatomy and Physiology: M 1:30 - 2:45pm W 1:30-6:00pm T/Th 7:00am-11:00am

6/14/2020-8/4/2020 - I will be in an 8 week summer term of Microbiology: M/T/W/TH from 12:30pm-5:00pm

8/2020 I am applying for the ADN program with MiraCosta College. This nursing program does not start until January 19, 2021. There is no guarantee I will be accepted to their program, but this is my goal.