Patient Care Assistant II

Job Summary and Responsibilities

As our Patient Care Assistant youll 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. Youre 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

• High School Graduate or GED
• Graduated from an accredited school of nursing or 1 year direct patient care experience
• Basic Life Support - CPR within 14 - days

Where Youll Work

St. Lukes Health Memorial Lufkin is a 279 bed facility and member of CommonSpirit Health a national nonprofit health system. Serving East Texas St. Lukes Health-Memorial Lufkin provides more than a quarter of a million patient services annually and contributes millions of dollars in local charity care and community support. Were the areas first Joint Commission Certified Primary Stroke Center with board-certified neurologists and neurosurgeons offering full-spectrum stroke care. Nationally recognized as a HealthCare Center of Excellence St. Lukes Health-Memorial Lufkin offers compassionate comprehensive health care including off-campus rehab and outpatient facilities and addition to its large emergency department there are 32 private rooms dedicated imaging and OBGYN wound care infusion and lab services.

Required Experience:

Junior IC