Period: 04 Nov 2022 - 09 Nov 2024

[Verified Contract] – Placement through Anglo

‍Country: Singapore

‍Title: Live-in Caregiver

Setting: In-Home

• Cared for a wheelchair-bound 70-year-old man with degenerative disease. The elderly weighed 62kg.
• PEG Tube feeding.
• Suctioning (tracheal).  
• Cough assist machine.
• Assisted with oxygen therapy.
• Ventilator.
• Administered suppository (bullet).
• Assisted in Activities of Daily Living including showering (once every 2 days), sponging, changing diapers (including at night), dressing, transferring from bed to wheelchair and vice-versa, turning & positioning (including at night).
• Shared a room with the elderly. Woke up 2 times at night to suction the elderly.
• Assisted with walking exercises with walking frame.
• Prepared and served medications.
• Performed housework and cooking.
• Finished contract and returned home.

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Period: 2016 to 2019

‍Country: Taiwan

‍Title: Live-in Caregiver

Setting: In-Home

• Cared for a 72-year-old lady with stroke. The elderly weighed 80kg.
• Used a walking frame and Yayuk’s assistance. Used a wheelchair when going outside.
• Assisted in Activities of Daily Living including showering, toileting, dressing, feeding, walking and getting into and out of bed.
• Woke up 2 to 3 times at night to assist with toileting.
• Accompanied for day rehabilitation 3 times a week. Assisted with the pedal exerciser, walking with the parallel bar, pulling of resistance cable, pushing of light weights with her legs.
• Prepared and served medications.
• Accompanied for medical appointments with her employer.
• Performed housework.

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Other

Period: 2009 - 2012

‍Country: Taiwan

‍Title: Domestic Helper

Setting: In-Home

• Domestic Worker. Family of 5 including children aged 3 and 5. Performed housework, cooking and washing car.

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Period: 08 Sep 2003 – 20 May 2005

‍Country: Singapore

‍Title: Domestic Helper

Setting: In-Home

• Domestic Worker.  Family of 5 including children, aged 3, 5 and 6. Performed housework, cooking and washing car.

Period: Feb 2021 to May 2023

‍Country: Philippines

‍Title: Live-in Caregiver

Setting: In-Home

• Cared for a wheelchair-bound 80-year-old lady with diabetes. The elderly weighed 50 to 60kg.
• Gave injections and monitored blood glucose levels.
• Monitored her blood pressure.
• Administered suppository (bullet) and performed manual evacuation.
• Assisted in Activities of Daily Living including showering, changing diapers (including at night), dressing, feeding (sometimes), transferring from bed to wheelchair and vice-versa, turning & positioning (including at night).
• Shared a room with the elderly. Woke up 2 to 3 times at night to assist the elderly to check and change diapers and turn and position.
• Brought the elderly out to get some sun.
• Assisted in ROM exercises.
• Massaged her before she slept.
• Prepared and served medications.
• Accompanied for medical appointments with her children.
• Performed housework and cooking.

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Period: Jan 2012 to Jan 2014

‍Country: Philippines

‍Title: Live-in Caregiver

Setting: In-Home

• Cared for an 82-year-old lady with asthma, shortness of breath and pneumonia.
• Assisted in walking. Used a wheelchair when going outside.
• Assisted with Inhaler
• Nebulizer.
• Assisted in Activities of Daily Living including showering, toileting, dressing, walking, getting into and out of bed.
• Slept in an adjacent room. She would call for Cherrily using a call bell. Woke up 2 - 3 times at night to assist when she had shortness of breath. Assisted her to sit upright and give her inhaler, If it was not enough, Cherrilyn would give her nebulizer. Sometimes assisted her to go to the toilet.
• Brought the elderly out to get some sun.
• Sometimes the elderly would forget where she had put her things and would ask Cherrilyn for help to find.
• Prepared and served medications.
• Accompanied for medical appointments.
• Cleaned her room and did her laundry.

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Certification and Training

• TESDA National Certificate II in Caregiving
• Emergency First Aid Training
• Basic Nursing Skills (Tracheostomy Care, Suctioning, PEG/NGT Care and Feeding, CBG/HGT Injection, Colostomy Care, Catherisation and Oxygenation, Dementia Care Awareness and End of Life Care)

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Other

Period: 2008 to 2012

‍Country: Philippines

‍Title: Day Care Worker

Setting: Department of Social Welfare and Development

• Taught and monitored children ages 3-6 in the Barangay while parents are at work.
• Engaged children in activities like singing, dancing, coloring and identifying objects, shapes, numbers and letters.

Period: 25 Feb 2022 to 21 Oct 2024

‍Country: Singapore

‍Title: Live-in Caregiver

Setting: In-Home

• Cared for a wheelchair-bound 71-year-old man with stroke, diabetes, pneumonia and heart problem. The elderly weighed 70kg.
• Assisted to walk without walking stick for the first year with another helper, but elderly preferred to use wheelchair even at home.
• NGT feeding (since Nov 2023)
• Suctioning(oral) (since Nov 2023)
• Monitored blood glucose levels.
• Administered suppository (bullet) and performed manual evacuation.
• When the elderly was able to walk, Riana assisted with showering, dressing, toileting with commode (pass motion), changing diapers, walking and getting into and out of bed.
• When the elderly became wheelchair-bound, Riana assisted with showering, dressing, toileting with commode (sometimes like once a month when he could not pass motion), changing diapers (she was instructed by the employer to do it together with the other helper, however, when the other helper goes marketing, she would change diaper alone), feeding, transferring from bed to wheelchair and vice-versa and turning & positioning.
• Riana was instructed to do the showering of the elderly together with the elderly’s wife.
• Shared a room with the elderly. Woke up 2-3 times at night to assist the elderly to change diapers and cover him with blanket.
• During the first year, she would bring the elderly to go outside to walk and exercise.
• When the elderly started wheelchair-bound, she would bring the elderly to do physiotherapy at nearby clinic.
• Prepared and served medications.
• Accompanied for medical appointments with the elderly’s wife once every 3 or 6 months.
• Performed housework, grocery shopping (sometimes) and cooking (sometimes).
• In January 2024, the family hired an Indian helper. The elderly’s wife has instructed Riana that she would need to change diapers, dressing, and transfer bed to wheelchair together with the Indian helper. However, when Riana asked the Indian helper for help, sometimes the Indian helper would ignore her and not talk to her. Hence, Riana found it hard to work with the Indian helper and decided not to continue.

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Period: 26 Sep 2017 to 05 Jul 2019

‍Country: Singapore

‍Title: Live-in Caregiver

Setting: In-Home

• Cared for an 89-year-old lady with Parkinsons disease, dementia, diabetes, and leg operation. The elderly weighed 60kg.
• Assisted in walking with a walking frame in the first year. The elderly refused to let Riana to hold on her and had a fall during showering, The elderly was hospitalised and undergone a leg operation. After that the elderly became wheelchair-bound.
• Administered suppository (bullet) and performed manual evacuation.
• Assisted in Activities of Daily Living including showering, sponging, toileting, changing diapers (including at night), dressing, feeding, walking, getting into and out of bed, transferring from bed to wheelchair and vice-versa, turning & positioning (including at night).
• Shared a room with the elderly. Woke up 2 to 3 times at night to assist the elderly to change diapers and turning and positioning.
• She would bring elderly to go outside with the elderly’s daughter.
• When the elderly started wheelchair-bound, she would bring the elderly to do physiotherapy at nearby clinic.
• Due to dementia,
  • The elderly would forget if she had eaten and ask to eat again. Riana would reassure elderly that she has eaten already.
  • The elderly would want to shower in the middle of the night. Riana would explain to her that it is night time.
  • The elderly would shout in the middle of the night, Riana would coax her to go back to sleep.
  • The elderly would have mood swings and spit at her. Riana would speak to her nicely to calm her down and tell her cannot be like this.
• Prepared and served medications.
• Accompanied for medical appointments with the elderly’s children.
• Performed housework and cooking.
• Elderly was sent to nursing home, the family did not require her anymore hence she finished contract and went back to Indonesia.