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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

1. Provides direct patient care as delegated by RN staff

2. Monitors and records vital signs

3. Assists in providing personal hygiene and physical care needs

4. Accurately measures, records, and reports intake and output

5. Obtains and records daily weight

6. Performs blood glucose testing using blood glucose meter

7. Reports changes in patient’s status promptly to RN

8. Performs as patient care companion when needed

9. Assists in the admission, transfer and discharge process

10. Performs unit housekeeping needs

11. Acts as a runner/transporter

12. Checks and documents refrigerator temperatures as delegated, reporting variances to appropriate personnel

13. Updates assigned bed status

14. Maintains a safe environment by responding to all bed alarms, call lights, telephones and alerting the correct person

15. Keeps patient environment clean, Performs comfort rounds, keeps hallways clear of obstruction, no food or drink at the workstation, reports safety issues and broken equipment appropriately, and adheres to patient safety precautions

16. Communicates with patient’s family, physicians, and unit personnel and peers in an accurate, courteous, and professional manner

17. Acts as receptionist for the unit; has limited use of the hospital information systems according to hospital policy dependent on the need of the unit. This can include, but not limited to: consulting in EPIC, navigate through EPIC, discharge patients, put milestones into tele tracking, maintain paper charts and checking on MD orders

18. Removes saline locks

19. Order floor stock and puts it away

20. Perform 12 lead EKGs where unit allows

21. Other duties as assigned by manager

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.

Qualifications

**Required Education** :

+ High School Diploma, GED or SRNA

**Required Licensure and Certifications** :

+ BLS via the American Heart Association

**Required Minimum Knowledge, Skills, Abilities and Training** :

+ One (1) year direct patient care experience

Overview

As a Patient Care Assistant at CHI Saint Joseph Health you’ll 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. You’re 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 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ioujd4fnJcY) .

Whether you are an experienced healthcare professional or working toward that, we invite you to experience Hello Humankindness (https://www.chisaintjosephhealth.org/library/landing/humankindness) with us! Learn more about Saint Joseph Hospital and its awards and recognitions here: Saint Joseph Hospital (https://www.chisaintjosephhealth.org/saint-joseph-hospital)

Pay Range

$15.92 - $22.79 /hour

We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.