Overview
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Education
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Tierra Rice

Grifton

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Direct Support Paraprofessional

Easterseals
04.2019 - Current
  • Under the supervision of the Program Supervisor or designee, the Direct Support Paraprofessional provides respite, personal care and personal assistance and/or habilitative services to individuals supported by the ICS program. These services exclude those that are considered re-habilitative in nature.
  • Working with individuals with developmental disabilities
  • Ability to work independently, handle multiple responsibilities and assigning priority to activities.
  • Ability to manage the goals of multiple individuals and families on a timely basis.
  • CPR/First Aid
  • NCI (as appropriate)
  • Medication Administration (as appropriate)
  • OSHA/BBP training
  • Core competencies and other trainings relevant to position as defined by local program guidelines.

Private Duty Caregiver

Private Care
02.2018 - 02.2019
  • - Assess patient condition by monitoring vital signs; recording intake and output; reviewing patient care journal; keeping family informed.
  • - Administers treatments by dispensing medications; changing bandages; administering oxygen; maintaining oxygen supply and equipment.
  • - Records patient information by making entries in the patient journal; notifying agency nursing supervisor of changing or unusual conditions.
  • - Helps patients care for themselves by introducing and teaching assisted living techniques, such as using a cane or walker, using special utensils to eat, using special techniques and equipment for personal hygiene needs.
  • - Helps family members care for the patient by introducing and teaching appropriate ways to lift, turn, and re-position the patient; putting the family in contact with resources for additional home care help; directing them to medicare reimbursement approaches for hospital beds, portable toilets, canes, walkers, lift-chairs, wheelchairs, etc.
  • - Maintains a safe, secure, and healthy patient environment by following sepses standards and procedures; changing linens, dusting, vacuuming; maintaining kitchen and bathroom facilities, handling personal laundry; maintaining security.
  • Provides nutritious meals by following prescribed dietary requirements and nutrition standards; preparing, cooking, and serving meals and snacks.
  • - Maintains continuity of patient home care by documenting and communicating actions, irregularities, and continuing needs in the patient journal for the next caregiver.
  • Updates job knowledge and maintains certified nursing assistant status by participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; fulfilling continuing education requirements.
  • Protects the home health care company by adhering to professional standards, home care policies and procedures, federal, state, and local requirements.
  • - Enhances nursing assistant and home health care company reputation by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests; exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments.

Rapid Pack Operator

Smithfield
12.2014 - 05.2018
  • Responsibilities
  • Operator is responsible for the daily operation of the Rapid Pack machines for the Hot Dog Department. 1. At all times, operate in a manner consistent with safe operating procedures.2. Responsible for the safe and adequate packaging of the product in accordance with Company Standard Operating Procedures (SOP).3. Document any operational change during production and anything out of the ordinary, in the comment section of CIM.4. Maintain Rapid Pack sealer in a clean and functional manner5. Load hot dogs into the Rapid Pack6. Change machine over to seal different size blocks.7. Change rolls of (heavy) film8. Remove packaging waste9. Watch packages as they come from sealer to insure that there are no leakers.10. Visually inspect hot dogs packages prior to and after sealer for defects and extraneous11. Monitor film usage to insure that the sealer does not run out and to record the amount used12. Monitor the machine for smooth operation without product jams13. Adhere to all Company and regulatory GMPs.14. Communicate between, co-workers, departments and supervision as required.15. Must successfully complete JTPR and consistently perform work according to SOP.16. Perform other duties as assigned depending on business need.
  • Required Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
  • 1. Knowledge of sanitary GMPs.2. Physical requirements to perform job as defined in the essential job function.3. Must be able to exercise judgment and make decisions.4. Computer literacy.

Warehouse Worker

Moen
04.2014 - 08.2014
  • Prepare and complete orders for delivery or pickup according to schedule (load, pack, wrap, label, ship)
  • Receive and process warehouse stock products (pick, unload, label, store)
  • Perform inventory controls and keep quality standards high for audits
  • Keep a clean and safe working environment and optimise space utilisation
  • Complete diary logs into inventory
  • Report any discrepancies
  • Communicate and cooperate with supervisors and coworkers
  • Operate and maintain preventively warehouse vehicles and equipment
  • Follow quality service standards and comply with procedures, rules and regulations

Cut up/Debone

Butterball, LLC
07.2012 - 02.2014
  • Responsibilities
  • Within-plant processing of cut-up parts generally involves creating creation of a bone-out product. The deboning process involves cutting meat away from the bone using traditional knives or Whizzard knives and trimming and cleaning with traditional bladed knives or scissors. The deboned parts are generally packaged as a fresh or flash frozen consumer product.

Floater

Kids Gallery Child Care
04.2010 - 02.2013
  • Responsibilities
  • Report to Director or Head Teacher upon arrival for daily assignment
  • Work as a team member to meet the needs of the children classroom and center as a whole
  • Meet the emotional, social, physical and cognitive needs of each child
  • When appropriate participate in open communication with parents
  • Maintain confidentiality
  • Report any suspect abuse to supervisor
  • Clean and arrange classroom environment in accordance to program goals and philosophy
  • Maintain a safe and healthy environment
  • Inspect and replace damaged or lost materials
  • Attend in-service and staff meetings
  • Keep all appropriate records such as attendance and time sheets.
  • Meet all applicable licensing regulations
  • Daily assignments may include coverage for other staff during breaks and planning time, clean toys and educational materials, clean common areas such as bathrooms, kitchen, break room and outdoor play areas, remove garbage, inventory supplies, organize art and supplies cabinets.

Education

GED - undefined

Lenoir community college

Certification

  • Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA)
  • February 2018
  • Bathe and dress patients
  • Serve meals and help patients eat
  • Take vital signs
  • Turn or reposition patients who are bedridden
  • Collect information about conditions and treatment plans from caregivers, nurses and doctors
  • Provide and empty bedpans
  • Lift patients into beds, wheelchairs, exam tables, etc.
  • Answer patient calls
  • Examine patients for bruises, blood in urine or other injuries/wounds
  • Clean and sanitize patient areas
  • Change bed sheets and restock rooms with necessary supplies
  • Medication Aide
  • March 2016 to March 2018
  • Certified medication aides are nurses' aides first, and must have a strong grasp of basic patient care. As the staff members with the most direct patient contact, nurses' aides are responsible for observing and reporting any change in their patients' condition. They must clearly understand the legal and ethical limits of their position, which doesn't permit them to change a patient's medications, provide injections or start intravenous drips. Medication aides must understand medical and pharmacological terminology, and manage medications for a large number of patients without making dosage errors or providing medications to the wrong patient.
  • CRC
  • Present
  • Skills Tested: Silver Level
  • In addition to the skills required for a Bronze certificate, Silver certification requires competence in the following areas:
  • Applied Mathematics
  • Solve problems that require one or two operations
  • Multiply negative numbers
  • Calculate averages, simple ratios, simple proportions, or rates using whole numbers and decimals
  • Add commonly known fractions, decimals, or percentages (e.g., 1/2, .75, 25%)
  • Add up to three fractions that share a common denominator
  • Multiply a mixed number by a whole number or decimal
  • Put the information in the right order before performing calculations
  • Locating Information
  • Find several pieces of information in one or two graphics
  • Understand how graphics are related to each other
  • Summarize information from one or two straightforward graphics
  • Identify trends shown in one or two straightforward graphics
  • Compare information and trends shown in one or two straightforward graphics
  • Reading for Information
  • Identify important details that may not be clearly stated
  • Use the reading material to figure out the meaning of words that are not defined
  • Apply instructions with several steps to a situation that is the same as the situation in the reading materials
  • Choose what to do when changing conditions call for a different action (follow directions that include "if-then" statements)
  • BLS for Healthcare Providers
  • March 2017 to March 2019
  • Importance of high-quality CPR and its impact on survival
  • Steps of the Chain of Survival and applying the BLS concepts of the Chain of Survival
  • Recognize the signs of someone needing CPR
  • Perform high-quality CPR for adults, children and infants
  • Importance of early defibrillation and use of an AED
  • Use of a barrier device to provide effective ventilations
  • Importance of teams in multi-rescuer resuscitation and performing as an effective team member during multi-rescuer CPR
  • Technique for relief of foreign-body airway obstruction (choking) in adults, children and infants
  • CPR/First Aid
  • Driver's License
  • CPR
  • First Aid

Timeline

Direct Support Paraprofessional

Easterseals
04.2019 - Current

Private Duty Caregiver

Private Care
02.2018 - 02.2019

Rapid Pack Operator

Smithfield
12.2014 - 05.2018

Warehouse Worker

Moen
04.2014 - 08.2014

Cut up/Debone

Butterball, LLC
07.2012 - 02.2014

Floater

Kids Gallery Child Care
04.2010 - 02.2013

GED - undefined

Lenoir community college

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