Patient Care Assistant

Job Summary

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.

Responsibilities

• Provides direct patient care as delegated by RN staff
• Makes and records vital signs
• Aids 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
• Aids in the admission, transfer, and discharge process
• Performs unit housekeeping needs
• Aids as a runner/transporter
• Checks and documents refrigerator temperatures as delegated, reporting variances to appropriate personnel
• Updates assigned bed status
• Maintains a safe environment by responding to all bed alarms, call lights, telephones, and alerting the correct person
• 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

Requirements

• Required High School Graduate
• General Studies, upon hire or High School GED General Studies, upon hire
• One (1) year direct patient care experience
• Basic Life Support - CPR, upon hire