Patient Care Assistant Med Surg

As our Patient Care Assistant youll 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. Youre 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 patients status promptly to RN
  
  

  Performs as patient care companion when needed

• High School Diploma GED or SRNA
• Basic Life Support - CPR upon hire
• 1-3 years One (1) year direct patient care experience upon hire
• Basic Life Support - CPR within 14 - days

Welcome to Flaget Memorial Hospital a 52-bed facility located in Bardstown Kentucky. Founded in 1951 by the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth Flaget Memorial Hospital is recognized as a 2023 Best Place to Work in Kentucky.

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.