About this role
Job Summary and Responsibilities
As our Patient Care Assistant, you’ll help our patients feel safer and more comfortable by assisting with their basic daily life activities. Every day, you will directly support patients with tasks such as personal hygiene, mobility, and feeding, while also assisting nursing staff with vital sign monitoring and preparing patient rooms.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. You're diligent about your tasks, observant of patients’ conditions improving or declining, and accept coaching well.
- Provides direct patient care as delegated by RN staff
- Monitors and records vital signs
Assists in providing personal hygiene and physical care needs
- Accurately measures, records, and reports intake and output
Obtains and records daily weight
- Performs blood glucose testing using blood glucose meter
Reports changes in patient’s status promptly to RN
- Performs as patient care companion when needed
Assists in the admission, transfer and discharge process
- Performs unit housekeeping needs
Acts as a runner/transporter
Job Requirements
Required
- High School Diploma, GED or SRNA
- 1-3 years One (1) year direct patient care experience
- Basic Life Support - CPR, within 14 - days
Where You’ll Work
Welcome to Saint Joseph East, a 217-bed, full-service, community hospital located in a convenient setting in Lexington, Kentucky. Saint Joseph East also includes the Women's Hospital at Saint Joseph East which is dedicated to supporting the well-being of women in Central and Eastern Kentucky and serves a 16-bed Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU).
CHI Saint Joseph Health is part of CommonSpirit Health, a non-profit, Catholic health system dedicated to advancing health for all people. With approximately 175,000 team members and 25,000 physicians and advanced practice clinicians.
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 2,200 care centers serving 24 states.