Patient Care Assistant Jobs

Join Cleveland Clinic’s Main Campus, where research and surgery are advanced, technology is leading-edge, patient care is world-class, and caregivers are family. The G111 Leukemia unit cares for patients undergoing therapy for leukemia and other immunologic cancers. Specially trained nurses provide chemotherapy followed by intensive intravenous therapies, including IV antibiotics, antivirals, antifungals, blood products, and electrolyte replacements. The Patient Care Nurse Assistant works part-time on the day shift, from 7:00 a.m. to 7:30 p.m., providing or assisting with patient care under the supervision of an RN. Care may include taking vital signs and weights, helping patients with personal care and activities of daily living, patient transfers and transport, pulse oximetry, point-of-care testing, dressing changes, applying external monitoring devices, and removing urinary Foley catheters. The assistant reports abnormal findings or changes in patients’ physical, mental, or emotional conditions to an RN and helps keep patient rooms clean and orderly. The role requires full-body motion to move and lift patients, manual finger dexterity and good eye-hand coordination, and extensive standing and walking. It is classified as medium work, involving exertion of 20 to 50 pounds occasionally, 10 to 25 pounds frequently, and up to 10 pounds constantly. Standard precautions and personal protective equipment are used as required.