Date Of Birth: 9th December 1981
City: Zwide, Port Elizabeth
Languages: English, Xhosa,
Hobbies: Spending time with my family
Get to know more about# me: Thembisa N
What makes you a good caregiver?
‘‘I am passionate about# my job and helping people eases my soul. I love being the extra hand in a patients healing process and I believe that I am a good caregiver, because I am not just focusing on my work but I try and engage with the elderly to ease them as well.’’
Your best day at work you’ve ever had and what made it so good.
“Taking care of the elderly, I feel happy while engaging with them and helping with the healing process. I feel worried if they not corresponding with me, then I know there's something troubling them.”
In what skills area do you feel most qualified to be a caregiver?
“It is being the helping hand in getting them what they may need at the time or being the helping hand in their healing process.”
What makes you most excited about# working with seniors?
“ It was the day I took a client who recently had an operation to the dining room to have breakfast, while she was eating the spoon she was using fell on the floor, when I came to check on her found her trying to bend to pick it up, I came and helped her, she could have been injured again for she had an hip replacement operation.’’
What’s the most interesting thing about# you that we don’t know from your resume?
‘‘I work well with people, I am able to improvise. I'm interested in learning new things.’’