Patient Care Assistant II
Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
Houston, Texas
- Eligibility
- RNNurse Assistant
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Posted Sep 12
The work and the unit
- Specialty
- Nurse Assistant
Pay and benefits
- medical
- prescription drug
- dental
- vision plans
- life insurance
- paid time off
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- tuition reimbursement
- retirement plan benefit(s) including 401(k), 403(b), and other defined benefits offerings
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What's around it?
Living costs about the same as the US average
- Median rent
- $1,361/mo
- Household income
- $64,813/yr, all local households, not nurse pay
From Census ACS 2024.
About this role
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
Sourced from Baylor St Luke's Medical Center’s careers page.
How this role fits you
About the employer
You would be joining Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center in Houston’s Texas Medical Center (77030). The facts on hand do not yet spell out unit culture, ratios, pay ranges, or residency details, so your first practical questions are about commute…
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