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SPECIAL NEEDS CAREGIVER
Professional Summary

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.

Skills
  • Experience with special-needs children and adults
  • Special needs instruction, understanding, and communication
  • Memory care and protective supervision
  • Geriatric care of a parent
  • Myotonic Muscular Dystrophy specialized knowledge
  • Mandated reporter/APS reporting
  • Conservatorship process
Work History
Special Needs Caregiver, 09/2008 to Current
IHSS – Chula Vista, CA
  • Full time parent to a non-verbal autistic child who now has seizures.
  • Seizure protocol experience since 2017 including rescue medication.
  • Helped with home management tasks such as preparing meals, grocery shopping, and cleaning.
  • Increased level of independence by providing daily undertakings that promote self-management by assisting consumers in their daily personal tasks including bathing and dressing.
  • Arranged transportation and accompanied patients to doctors' offices or errands.
  • Body language reader, AWOL risks, sensory seeking, combative behaviors, basket holds, protective supervision.
Caregiver for Senior With Parkinson's Disease, 04/2019 to 09/2019
Madi Sondouzi Trust – Solana Beach, CA
  • Devoted special emphasis to punctuality and worked to maintain outstanding attendance record, consistently arriving to work ready to start immediately.
  • Consulted with patient's daughter to assess and enhance care.
  • Turned and positioned client at night to prevent bedsores and maintain comfort levels.
  • Exhaustive psychological tactics for daytime care including sticking to a daytime schedule and feeding, minimal redirection for evening care and getting client to restroom and back into hospital bed.
  • Provided safe mobility support to help patients move around personal spaces.
  • Kept eye on client vital signs, administered medications and tracked behaviors to keep supervisor well-informed.
  • Helped client care for themselves by providing proper and safe use of her walker, even though memory caused her to not remember.
  • Worked evenings to start out with, and had a bed alarm when the patient would put her feet down.
  • Client was 87 years old and advanced stages of Parkinson's.
Caregiver for Parent With Dementia, 06/2010 to 04/2013
IHSS – Chula Vista , CA
  • Promoted good oral and personal hygiene by aiding with shaving, bathing and teeth brushing.
  • Cared for my elderly parent with conditions such as congestive heart/respiratory failure, COPD, Dementia and muscular dystrophy who was a fall risk.
  • Medication management in home and with pharmacy, organizing medications in to daily pill boxes.
  • Assistance with personal transportation to doctors appointments or coordinating a driver service.
  • Physical therapy assistance in home and out of home.
  • Advocacy with social services such as food stamps, Medi-Cal, Social Security and Section 8.
  • Monitored my mothers behaviors and blood pressure and alert Primary care doctor of potentially dangerously low BP levels while on certain medications.
  • Basic maintenance of electric wheel chair and oxygen concentrator.
Education
Liberal Arts : AA in Behavioral And Social Sciences, Expected in 05/2020
Miracosta College - Oceanside, CA
  • Registered Nursing starting 1/2021
  • ADN program application is being applied for in 8/2020
  • Degree received for Social and Behavioral Sciences 12/2019
  • Coursework in pharmacology, Gerontology and Psychology
  • Cumulative GPA 3.65 & Presidents List Fall Term 2019 for 3.8 Term GPA
  • Honor Society & Phi Theta Kappa - Alpha Chi Lambda Chapter Miracosta College
Past Work Summary
  • 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.
Availability

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.

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Resume Overview

Companies Worked For:

  • IHSS
  • Madi Sondouzi Trust

School Attended

  • Miracosta College

Job Titles Held:

  • Special Needs Caregiver
  • Caregiver for Senior With Parkinson's Disease
  • Caregiver for Parent With Dementia

Degrees

  • Liberal Arts : AA in Behavioral And Social Sciences , Expected in 05/2020

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