Vanessa Fraser-Blades

• Provided compassionate patient care, assisting with daily living activities and personal hygiene.
• Maintained accurate patient records, ensuring compliance with health regulations and standards.
• Trained new staff on best practices for patient care and safety protocols.
• Implemented infection control procedures, improving overall safety within the facility.
• Checked patient vitals such as temperature, blood pressure.
• Answered call lights and supported patient comfort and safety by adjusting bed rails and equipment.
• Ensured prompt response to call lights, addressing patient needs in a timely manner.
• Assisted with feeding and monitored intake to help patients achieve nutritional objectives.

Restorative aid (worked under the supervision of licensed nurses and physical/occupational therapists to help patients maintain their physical abilities.

Duties as a restorative aid:

• Assisted with rehabilitation exercises: strength training, balance, ambulation.
• Monitored and recorded patients progress.
• Prevented complications.
• Reported concerned, changes or improvements with nursing staff.
• Used gait belts, walkers, and other equipment to help patients walk or be transferred.
• Encouraged independence by helping patients do as much as they could safely do on their own.