Resource Patient Care Assistant FT Days

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.

As a Resource Patient Care Assistant at CHI Saint Joseph Hospital, you’ll have a unique opporutnity in helping 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, flexible with sudden changes, observant of patients’ conditions improving or declining, and you’re eager to learn.  We count on our Resource Patient Care Assistants to be flexible where needs arise knowing that you'll be gaining a vast range of experience in various clinical units.

Key Responsibilities:

• Check-in with the outgoing patient care assistant at the beginning of your shift to get a report on your patients.
• Conduct hourly rounds on approximately eight 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 bedside nurse as needed, such as: holding the patient, assiting with wound checks or dressing changes, providing the nurse with supplies, and cleaning up after.
• Change bed linens, check patients’ weight, other tasks as assigned each day.

Required Education:

• High School Diploma/GED

Required Licensure and Certifications:

• BLS

Required Minimum Knowledge, Skills, Abilities and Training:

• One (1) year direct patient care experience.