Patient Care Assistant

2 weeks ago


Little Rock, United States Catholic Health Initiatives Full time

Overview

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 Infirmary is a non-profit facility providing quality health care to patients and communities in and around Little Rock, AR. We are part of CommonSpirit Health which operates 139 hospitals and more than 1,000 care sites across 21 states, making our services accessible to nearly 1 in 4 U.S. residents.

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

with us.

Responsibilities

  • Check-in with the outgoing patient care techs at the beginning of your shift to get a report on your patients.

  • Conduct hourly rounds on patients, checking vitals, maintaining whiteboard information, and assisting with care as needed.

  • 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.

  • Assist patients with hygiene needs. This can include a full bed bath, an assisted bed bath, or retrieving towels and soap for ambulatory patients.

  • 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.

  • Change bed linens, check patients’ weight, and other tasks as assigned each day.

Qualifications

  • High school diploma or GED Required

  • 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

  • Successful completion of a PCT Training Course, offered quarterly at CHI St Vincent

  • Verifiable Certified Patient Care Tech, CPCT, issued by American Allied Health

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

While you’re busy impacting the healthcare industry, we’ll take care of you with benefits that include health/dental/vision, FSA, matching retirement plans, paid vacation, adoption assistance, and more

Pay Range

$15.49 - $21.30 /hour

We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.



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