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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

Job Requirements

Required

+ High School Graduate General Studies, upon hire or

+ High School GED General Studies, upon hire and

+ graduated from an accredited school of nursing or 1 year direct patient care experience , upon hire

+ Basic Life Support - CPR, within 14 - days

Where You'll Work

Lakeside Hospital a collaboration between CHI St. Luke’s Health and a team of specialized physicians— focused on cardiology and interventional cardiology, sports medicine, orthopedics, including total joint replacement, and spine care—in The Woodlands community. As the only hospital in Montgomery County to offer sports medicine as a major service line, Lakeside Hospital provides inpatient and outpatient care including diagnostic imaging, including MRI, CT and nuclear medicine.

Pay Range

$17.28 - $24.41 /hour

We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.