Patient Care Assistant Orthopedics

Saint Joseph Hospital - Lexington; Lexington (KY); On-site; USD 40,116,000 - 57,859,000; Full time

Job summary

Saint Joseph Hospital - Lexington seeks a Patient Care Assistant to support patients with daily living activities, helping them feel safe and comfortable. You will assist with personal hygiene, mobility, feeding, and prepare rooms while aiding nursing staff with vitals and basic care tasks.

You are dependable, observant, and coachable, able to document intake/output, monitor weight, and perform routine glucose checks as part of patient care in a 433-bed facility with a long-standing history in

Qualifications

• High School Diploma, GED or SRNA required.
• CPR certification required on hire.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Empathy

Vital signs monitoring

Attention to detail

Education

High School Diploma, GED or SRNA

Tools

Blood glucose meter

Vital signs monitor

Job description

Job Summary and Responsibilities

As our Patient Care Assistant, 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.

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.

• 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.

Job Requirements

Required

• High School Diploma, GED or SRNA
• Basic Life Support - CPR, upon hire

Where You'll Work

Welcome to Saint Joseph Hospital, a 433-bed hospital founded in 1877 by the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth as the first hospital in Lexington, Kentucky. Led by Sister Euphrasia Stafford, the mission to provide compassionate care to the underserved is still carried out today. Saint Joseph Hospital holds over two dozen national ranks and recognitions and is recognized as a 2024 Best Place to Work in Kentucky.

Saint Joseph is part of CommonSpirit Health, a non-profit, Catholic health system dedicated to advancing health for all people. With approximately 175,000 team members and 25,000 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 2,200 care centers serving 24 states.