Patient Care Assistant I 3A Gastro Med Surg PRN Nights
- Full-time
Where Youll Work
As a Patient Care Assistant at CHI Saint Joseph Health youll help our patients feel safer and more comfortable by assisting with their basic daily life activities.
Your success in this role comes from your genuine desire to help patients feel better whether that means giving them fresh bed linens or checking their vitals. Youre diligent about your tasks observant of patients conditions improving or declining and accept coaching well.
Key Responsibilities Include :
- Check-in with the outgoing patient care assistant at the beginning of your shift to get a report on your patients.
- Conduct hourly rounds checking vitals maintaining whiteboard information and assisting with care as needed.
- Assist patients with ambulating as necessary. This may mean helping them reach a recliner in their room walk to the bathroom or down the hall. Assist released patients in getting safely to their vehicles outside.
- Assist patients with hygiene needs. This can include a full bed bath an assisted bed bath or retrieving towels and soap for ambulatory patients.
- Assist the bedside nurse as needed such as : holding the patient or providing the nurse with supplies and cleaning up after.
- Help the bedside nurse with any wound checks or dressing changes.
- Change bed linens check patients weight other tasks as assigned each day.
About Us :
Welcome to Saint Joseph Hospital a 433-bed hospital founded in 1877 by the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth as the first Hospital in Lexington Kentucky. Led by Sister Euphrasia Stafford the mission to provide compassionate care to the poor and underserved is still carried out today. Saint Joseph Hospital holds over two dozen national ranks and recognitions and is recognized as a 2024 Best Place to Work in Kentucky .
Whether you are an experienced healthcare professional or working toward that we invite you to experience Hello Humankindness with us! CHI Saint Joseph Health provides you with the same level of care you provide for others. Learn more about Saint Joseph Hospital and its awards and recognitions here : Saint Joseph Hospital . Our commitment to serve the common good is delivered through the dedicated work of thousands of physicians advanced practice clinicians nurses and staff; through clinical excellence delivered across a system of 140 hospitals and more than 2200 care centers serving 24 states.
Job Summary and Responsibilities
Performs a variety of routine tasks to support the delivery of safe effective cost-efficient patient care as delegated by the RN. They provide assistance in transporting transferring and lifting. They perform cleaning Functions in patient care unit as delegated and perform selected diagnostic tests.
ESSENTIAL KEY JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
The job summary and responsibilities listed above are designed to indicate the general nature of the work performed within this job. They are not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all job responsibilities required of employees assigned to this job. Employees may be required to perform other duties as assigned.
Job Requirements
Required Education :
Required Licensure and Certifications :
Required Minimum Knowledge Skills Abilities and Training :
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Employment Type : Unclear
Experience : years
Vacancy : 1
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