Angela Turner-Rutledge
Nashville
Summary
Certified Nursing Assistant with 29 +years experience in a skilled setting. Patient-focused and empathetic caregiver with extensive knowledge of geriatric needs. Maintains good knowledge and understanding of development factors specific to adult and geriatric residents.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
CNA
Claiborne & Hughes/Mulberry
Franklin
02.2024 - Current
- Assisted residents with daily living activities and personal care needs.
- Monitored vital signs and reported changes to healthcare team members.
- Maintained cleanliness and safety in resident living areas and common spaces.
- Provided emotional support and companionship to residents during daily interactions.
- Participated in training new staff on caregiving procedures and protocols.
- Provided assistance with activities of daily living, including bathing, dressing and grooming.
Private Duty
CNT
Nashville
09.2021 - 03.2024
- Assist with tolieting
- Assist with change of clothes if necessary
- Do homework
- Outdoor and indoor activities
- Encourage self care
- Prepare food
- Provide comfortable environment for rest and to lesson anxiety
Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA)
Gallatin Center For Rehabilitation and Healing
Gallatin
09.2021 - 03.2023
- Assist or perform adls
- Provide companionship
- Report changes in residence
- Charts I $ O's
Factory Worker
Express Employment Professionals
Gallatin
08.2020 - 09.2021
- Light packing
Private Duty In-Home Care
CNT
Nashville
06.2020 - 09.2021
- Bathed PT
- Kept PT clean and dry kept comfortable
- Took vitals
- Recorded output
- Reported changes in condition
CNT
Gallatin Center For Rehabilitation and Healing
Gallatin
08.2019 - 04.2020
- Assist with feeding, bathing, eating, and toileting
- Take vital signs
- Measure and record intake and output
- Provide companionship
- Light housekeeping
- Report change in status
CNT
Creekside Health and Healing
Madison
06.2019 - 10.2019
- Assist with activities of daily living
- Provide companionship
- Light housekeeping
- Take vital signs
- Record outputs and intakes
- Report changes in status
CNT
Private Duty Case in Home
Antioch
10.2017 - 05.2019
- Performed ADLs , kept comfortable repositioned, took vitals, kept immediate area cleaned
Certified Nursing Assistant
Grace Health Care
Nashville
08.2017 - 10.2017
- Monitored vital signs, such as blood pressure and pulse.
- Responded appropriately to the physical, emotional and developmental needs of patients.
- Assisted patients with bathing, oral hygiene, grooming, feeding and elimination.
- Helped patients move in and out of beds, baths, wheelchairs and automobiles.
- Maintained a clean, healthy and safe environment.
- Answered patient calls for care and feeding.
Certified Nursing Assistant
Creekside Health and Rehabilitation Center
Nashville
01.2015 - 08.2017
- Maintained accurate records of patient care, condition, progress and concerns.
- Monitored vital signs, such as blood pressure and pulse.
- Assisted patients with bathing, oral hygiene, grooming, feeding and elimination.
- Helped patients move in and out of beds, baths, wheelchairs and automobiles.
- Maintained a clean, healthy and safe environment.
- Followed safe lifting techniques and individual resident lifting instructions.
- Answered patient calls for care and feeding.
- Assisted nurses with wound care for pressure ulcers, bed sores, and surgical site wounds.
- Reported any unusual circumstances in the patients' condition or environment.
Certified Nursing Assistant
Grace Health Care
Nashville
01.2013 - 10.2015
- Maintained accurate records of patient care, condition, progress and concerns.
- Monitored vital signs, such as blood pressure and pulse.
- Assisted patients with bathing, oral hygiene, grooming, feeding and elimination.
- Helped patients move in and out of beds, baths, wheelchairs and automobiles.
- Followed safe lifting techniques and individual resident lifting instructions.
- Answered patient calls for care and feeding.
- Reported any unusual circumstances in the patients' condition or environment.
- Provided a comforting and soothing environment.
- Member in good standing with Nurse Aide Registry.
Certified Nursing Assistant/Restorative Aide
Madison Healthcare
Madison
06.2007 - 11.2011
- Member in good standing with Nurse Aide Registry.
- Took advantage of opportunities for continuing education, quality assurance and performance improvement activities.
- Answered call lights and aided in patient comfort and safety by adjusting beds, lights, bed rails, pillows, patients' clothing and bedside tables/equipment.
- Helped residents programming goals and increase their independence.
- Provided a comforting and soothing environment.
- Collects patient specimens and data, including vital signs, input/output and other delegated measurements.
- Reported any unusual circumstances in the patients' condition or environment.
- Documents objective data and routine aspects of patient care.
- Supported diagnostic procedures, assisted with technical nursing treatments and entered information in patient records and charts.
- Assisted nurses with wound care for pressure ulcers, bed sores, and surgical site wounds.
Certified Nursing Assistant
Kindred Hospital
Nashville
03.2007 - 06.2007
- Member in good standing with Nurse Aide Registry.
- Answered call lights and aided in patient comfort and safety by adjusting beds, lights, bed rails, pillows, patients' clothing and bedside tables/equipment.
- Collects patient specimens and data, including vital signs, input/output and other delegated measurements.
- Reported any unusual circumstances in the patients' condition or environment.
- Supported diagnostic procedures, assisted with technical nursing treatments and entered information in patient records and charts.
- Assisted nurses with wound care for pressure ulcers, bed sores, and surgical site wounds.
- Cared for clients with diagnoses such as respiratory failure, diabetes, Parkinson's disease, and muscular dystrophy.
- Followed safe lifting techniques and individual resident lifting instructions.
- Maintained a clean, healthy and safe environment.
- Assisted patients with bathing, oral hygiene, grooming, feeding and elimination.
Education
High School Diploma -
Hunters Lane High School
Nashville, TNBelmont University
Nashville, TNSkills
- Alzheimer's Care
- Hospital Experience
- Laboratory Experience
- Medical records
- Vital Signs
- Venipuncture
- Customer service
- ICU experience
- Meal Preparation
- Caregiving
- Patient Care
- Senior Care
- Quality assurance
- Home Health
- Dementia Care
- Hospice Care
- Infection Control
- Training
- Memory Care
- Specimen collection / processing
- Cna Certified
- Problem resolution
- Phlebotomy
- Patient observation
- CPR
- Home Care
- Nursing
- Vital signs
- Laboratory experience
- CNA
- Dementia and Alzheimer's knowledge
- CPR/First Aid certified
- Patient-focused care
- Adaptable
- Companionship and emotional support
- Hospice and palliative care experience
- Compassionate
- Preceptor
- Professional bedside manner
- Patient/family focused
- Problem resolution capability
Certification
- State Tested Nursing Assistant, 06/95 to 06/25
- Certified Home Health Aide
- Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA)
- CPR Certification
Authorized To Work
US for any employer
Personal Information
Willing To Relocate: Anywhere
Timeline
CNA
Claiborne & Hughes/Mulberry
02.2024 - Current
Private Duty
CNT
09.2021 - 03.2024
Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA)
Gallatin Center For Rehabilitation and Healing
09.2021 - 03.2023
Factory Worker
Express Employment Professionals
08.2020 - 09.2021
Private Duty In-Home Care
CNT
06.2020 - 09.2021
CNT
Gallatin Center For Rehabilitation and Healing
08.2019 - 04.2020
CNT
Creekside Health and Healing
06.2019 - 10.2019
CNT
Private Duty Case in Home
10.2017 - 05.2019
Certified Nursing Assistant
Grace Health Care
08.2017 - 10.2017
Certified Nursing Assistant
Creekside Health and Rehabilitation Center
01.2015 - 08.2017
Certified Nursing Assistant
Grace Health Care
01.2013 - 10.2015
Certified Nursing Assistant/Restorative Aide
Madison Healthcare
06.2007 - 11.2011
Certified Nursing Assistant
Kindred Hospital
03.2007 - 06.2007
High School Diploma -
Hunters Lane High School
Belmont University