Certified Nursing Assistant resume example
A CNA on a long-term care unit, with resident load, charting quality and a falls reduction — the state certification stated with the state.
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Aaliyah Johnson
aaliyah@example.com | (313) 555-0138 | Detroit, MI
Summary
Certified Nursing Assistant on a 40-bed long-term care unit, caring for 12 residents a shift on days. Michigan-certified, with BLS current.
Experience
Certified Nursing Assistant
Jan 2024 – Present
Maple Grove Care Center, Detroit, MI
Cared for 12 residents a shift with bathing, feeding and mobility support, with no pressure injuries on the unit for 14 months.
Charted vital signs for 24 residents twice a shift in PointClickCare with no late entries on quarterly audits.
Reduced day-shift resident falls from five a month to one by adding a bed-alarm check to every round.
Education
Nurse Aide Training Program
Sep 2023 – Dec 2023
Detroit Health Careers Institute, Detroit, MI
Skills
Certifications: CNA (Michigan), BLS
Care: Activities of daily living, Vital signs, Infection control, Dementia care
Systems: PointClickCare
Why it is written this way
The certification is stated with the state
CNA certification is issued by a state, and a facility checks its own state's registry. “CNA (Michigan)” answers that; “Certified Nursing Assistant” alone does not.
Resident load gives the shift its size
Twelve residents a shift on a 40-bed unit tells a director of nursing what you are used to. It is the CNA equivalent of a nurse's patient ratio.
A short career still gets numbers
Under two years in, there is still a falls count, an audit result and an injury rate to point to. Care work is measured; say how.
Shapes to fill in
Each blank is yours to complete. These are the same scaffolds the builder offers for this occupation — none of them says anything until you fill it in, which is what keeps them useful rather than a lie somebody else wrote.
Improved quality or reliability
- Cut ___ defects from ___ to ___ by ___
- Raised ___ from ___ to ___ over ___
- Eliminated ___, ending ___ that had cost ___
- Introduced ___, cutting ___ incidents by ___%
Led people or a programme
- Led ___ people through ___, delivering ___
- Hired and trained ___, of whom ___
- Coordinated ___ across ___ teams to ___
- Mentored ___, ___ of whom ___
Changed how work is done
- Redesigned ___, cutting ___ from ___ to ___
- Standardised ___ across ___, removing ___
- Documented ___, cutting ___ time for ___ by ___
- Replaced ___ with ___, saving ___ each ___
Also called
Birth Attendant · Certified Medication Aide (CMA) · Certified Nurse Aide (CNA) · Certified Nurses Aide (CNA) · Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) · Certified Nursing Attendant (CNA) · Certified Residential Medication Aide (CRMA) · Clinical Assistant · Competency Evaluated Nurse Aide (CENA) · First Aid Attendant
From the O*NET occupation database. Worth checking which of these a posting uses, because that is the wording its keyword search will be built on.
What a parser reads from this resume
This is the actual plain-text output for the document above — the same text an applicant tracking system extracts, and the same text this app hands you when you download the .txt. Nothing is lost between the page and the parser, which is the whole argument for a single column of real text.
Aaliyah Johnson aaliyah@example.com | (313) 555-0138 | Detroit, MI SUMMARY Certified Nursing Assistant on a 40-bed long-term care unit, caring for 12 residents a shift on days. Michigan-certified, with BLS current. EXPERIENCE Certified Nursing Assistant | Jan 2024 - Present Maple Grove Care Center, Detroit, MI - Cared for 12 residents a shift with bathing, feeding and mobility support, with no pressure injuries on the unit for 14 months. - Charted vital signs for 24 residents twice a shift in PointClickCare with no late entries on quarterly audits. - Reduced day-shift resident falls from five a month to one by adding a bed-alarm check to every round. EDUCATION Nurse Aide Training Program | Sep 2023 - Dec 2023 Detroit Health Careers Institute, Detroit, MI SKILLS Certifications: CNA (Michigan), BLS Care: Activities of daily living, Vital signs, Infection control, Dementia care Systems: PointClickCare
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