Shelby Halter
Shillington
Summary
Compassionate caregiver with extensive experience in patient advocacy and staff mentorship. Proven ability to implement personalized care plans and coordinate efforts among team members, ensuring high standards of resident care and satisfaction.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Personal Care Associate
Country Meadows Retirement Communities
Wyomissing, PA
08.2025 - Current
- Assisted residents with daily living activities, promoting independence and comfort.
- Maintained cleanliness and organization in resident rooms and common areas.
- Recorded and monitored residents' vital signs and reported changes to nursing staff.
- Collaborated with team members to implement personalized care plans for residents.
Memory Care Unit Coordinator
Country Meadows Retirement Communities
Wyomissing, PA
08.2023 - 08.2025
- Job title includes daily PCA assignment.
- Assess resident care and offers tips/advice to coworkers to ensure a successful care plan is in place.
- Complete and update charting tasks for current and new residents for all shifts.
- Ensure all coworkers are completing their assigned residents tasks and charting before end of shift.
- Documents any significant refusal and puts plans into place for success.
- Monitor rooms for cleanliness.
- Track care need supplies and stock.
- Assist manager with completing/updating new admissions, annuals, and significant changes.
- Communicates changes with PCAs.
- Track DMEs and audit RASPs
- Label clothing and personal items.
- Communicate needs, concerns and general issues or updates with residents families/POAs
- Monitors dining experience, room inspections. Coordinate monthly meetings and frequent huddles with PCAs, nursing and management.
- Completes GDS (Global Deterioration Scale) assessments.
Restorative Care Coordinator
Country Meadows Retirement Communities
Wyomissing, PA
03.2021 - 08.2023
- Position entailed developing a leadership role with restorative care in Country Meadows restorative care unit by working directly with residents and coworkers to maximize each residents optimal functional level.
- Job duties included working closely with therapy providers, PCAS, nursing and fitness to ensure consistent follow through with recommendations and overall achievement of resident wellness goals.
- Creating a daily program as well as specific plans for residents via ongoing dialogue and relationship building, then developing course of action to enable success.
- Provides education to residents, families and staff on restorative care.
- Educating staff and residents on use of assistive devices and ambulatory equipment.
- Participates in wellness meetings as well as therapy meetings. Proactively addresses safety concerns.
- Role also included helping keep assignment sheets and tasks in electronic charting by system up to date.
Medication Assistant
Country Meadows Retirement Communities
Wyomissing, PA
12.2017 - 03.2021
- Engage with residents, getting to know them personally while administering medications and treatments, observing their day-to-day behavior and outlook and ensuring their comfort and overall positive well-being.
- Provide social and emotional support, while encouraging residents’ independence.
- Manage the medication cart for complete, up-to-date supplies and quality control.
- Administered medications accurately according to established protocols and resident care plans.
- Monitored residents for side effects and reported changes in condition to nursing staff promptly.
- Assisted in training new medication assistants on best practices and safety procedures.
- Collaborated with interdisciplinary teams to enhance resident care and medication management processes.
- Implemented process improvements that increased efficiency of medication distribution within the community.
- Maintained accurate documentation of medication administration, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards.
Medication Technician
Columbia Cottage Assisted Living
Wyomissing, PA
02.2015 - 12.2017
- Engage with residents, getting to know them personally while administering medications and treatments, observing their day-to-day behavior and outlook and ensuring their comfort and overall positive well-being.
- Provide social and emotional support, while encouraging residents’ independence.
- Manage the medication cart for complete, up-to-date supplies and quality control.
- Administer medications to residents ensuring compliance with safety protocols.
- Monitor resident health and report changes to nursing staff promptly.
- Maintain accurate documentation of medication administration records.
- Assist in training new staff on medication management procedures.
- Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to enhance resident care plans.
- Implement process improvements for medication storage and handling efficiency.
Education
High School Diploma -
Wyomissing Area Junior/Senior High School
Wyomissing, PANo Degree - Practical Nursing
Pennsylvania State University, Berks
Wyomissing, PA12-2026
Skills
- Compassionate caregiving
- Bathing assistance
- Housekeeping tasks
- Grooming assistance
- Dementia care
- Emotional support
- End-of-life care
- Alzheimer's care
- Glucose monitoring
- Insulin injection administration
- Documentation
- Patient education
- Patient advocacy
- Medical terminology understanding
- Case management
- Organizational skills
- Training and mentoring
- Staff management
Certification
BLS Certification
Medication Administration
Timeline
Personal Care Associate
Country Meadows Retirement Communities
08.2025 - Current
Memory Care Unit Coordinator
Country Meadows Retirement Communities
08.2023 - 08.2025
Restorative Care Coordinator
Country Meadows Retirement Communities
03.2021 - 08.2023
Medication Assistant
Country Meadows Retirement Communities
12.2017 - 03.2021
Medication Technician
Columbia Cottage Assisted Living
02.2015 - 12.2017
High School Diploma -
Wyomissing Area Junior/Senior High School
No Degree - Practical Nursing
Pennsylvania State University, Berks