Nursing Care Technician/UKHC

U K Healthcare Ltd; Lexington (KY); On-site; USD 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

U K Healthcare Ltd seeks a patient care assistant to work one-on-one with a Registered Nurse, performing delegated tasks and direct patient care such as vital signs, phlebotomy, documentation, ADLs, and supply handling. The role includes responding to call lights and assisting with admissions, transfers, and discharges.

The physical demands include lifting 50–100 pounds daily and enduring long periods of standing, walking, and sitting.

Qualifications

• Provide direct patient care under RN supervision, including vital signs, phlebotomy, and documentation.
• Assist with ADLs, stock supplies, respond to call lights, and support admissions, transfers, and discharges.
• Lift 50–100 lb daily; stand, walk, and sit for long periods; exposure to communicable diseases.

Responsibilities

• Provide prompt, compassionate, patient-centered care in a collaborative team environment.
• Use nursing process within a comprehensive patient-centered plan of care to improve outcomes and satisfaction.
• Adhere to University policies and procedures and applicable regulations while ensuring safety.

Job description

This position works one-on-one with a Registered Nurse (RN) to complete delegated tasks and provide direct patient care such as: obtain vital signs, phlebotomy, documentation, assist with ADL's (activities of daily living), order and stock supplies, respond to patient call lights, unit orientation, and patient admission, transfer, and discharge. Positions may also involve moving patients from bed to wheelchair or stretcher, or stretcher to treatment/surgical tables. Handling of specimens and delivery to labs and preparation of patients for surgical procedures may also be required.

The primary responsibilities for this position consist of providing prompt, compassionate, and patient centered care in a collaborative, team-oriented work environment. This dynamic environment supports collaborative efforts among the nursing staff and the teams of physicians to increase communication, follow through, and enhance patient outcomes and satisfaction. This includes utilization of the nursing process in conjunction with a comprehensive patient-centered plan of care, ensuring patient satisfaction and adhering to University policies and procedures as well as federal, state and local regulations.

In addition, the essential functions for this position include the ability to lift, carry, push, and pull 50-100 pounds on a daily basis, as well as stand, walk, and sit for long periods of time. The conditions of work may involve exposure to communicable diseases and injury from intractable patients or sharp instruments.