Patient Care Assistant I

CHI; Hot Springs (AR); On-site; USD 10,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dedicated team as a Patient Care Assistant at a leading healthcare facility in Hot Springs. In this rewarding role, you'll support patients in their daily activities, ensuring their comfort and safety. Your compassionate nature will shine as you assist with vital checks, hygiene needs, and mobility. This faith-based, non-profit organization is recognized for its commitment to quality care and social justice, making it a fulfilling place to work. If you're eager to learn and grow in a supportive environment, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED required.
• CPR certification from American Heart Association within 30 days of hire.

Responsibilities

• Conduct hourly rounds on patients and check vitals.
• Assist patients with hygiene needs and ambulating.
• Help nurses with tube insertions and other tasks.

Skills

Patient Care

Communication Skills

Observational Skills

Basic Life Support (BLS)

Education

High school diploma or GED

Certified Nursing Assistant/EMT

Completion of Fundamentals of Nursing

CPR Certification

Job description

Overview

Patient Care Assistant

As our Patient Care Assistant at CHI St Vincent, you’ll 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. You’re diligent about your tasks, observant of patients’ conditions improving or declining, and accept coaching well. You know we’re all continuously trying to become better care providers, and you’re eager to learn.

CHI St Vincent Hot Springs is a 280 bed faith-based, non-profit, Magnet Accredited facility providing quality health care to patients and communities from all over the State of Arkansas. As the only level II trauma center in the southwest part of the state, CHI St Vincent Hot Springs is the regional referral center for cardiology, trauma, neuro, ortho, oncology and critical care/pulmonary. We have also been voted as one of Arkansas Best Places to Work by Arkansas Business since 2019. We have earned top patient safety ratings from Leapfrog and was recently named as one of the Nation’s 50 Top Cardiovascular Hospitals in Fortune and PINC AI.

If you are committed to social justice, health equity, and prepared to deliver care in new, innovative ways, you belong with us.

Responsibilities

1. Check-in with the outgoing patient care techs at the beginning of your shift to get a report on your patients.
2. Conduct hourly rounds on patients, checking vitals, maintaining whiteboard information, and assisting with care as needed.
3. 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.
4. Assist patients with hygiene needs. This can include a full bed bath, an assisted bed bath, or retrieving towels and soap for ambulatory patients.
5. Help the nurse with tube insertions such as an NG tube, rectal tube, or catheter. You may be holding a cup of water, holding the patient or providing the nurse with supplies as needed, and cleaning up after.
6. Change bed linens, check patients’ weight, and other tasks as assigned each day.

Qualifications

1. High school diploma or GED Required
2. One of the following criteria must be met:

• Certified Nursing Assistant/EMT, or
• Completion of “Fundamentals of Nursing” in an accredited RN or LPN Nursing Program, or
• Minimum of 6 months of direct patient care in an acute care environment within the last 24 months, or
• Verifiable Certified Patient Care Tech, CPCT, issued by American Allied Health

CPR Certification from the American Heart Association required within 30 days of hire