Patient Care Assistant Pre Op Post Op
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Job Location:
Lexington, KY - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
19 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Where Youll 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 Womens 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 175000 team members and 25000 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 2200 care centers serving 24 states.
Job Summary and Responsibilities
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.
Job Requirements
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
- Phlebotomy and EKG experience required
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About Company
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