Patient Transporter
About The Position
The Patient Transporter moves and escorts patients between hospital units and designated departments, ensuring proper patient identification and maintaining safety, security, and confidentiality. The role also transports laboratory specimens and medical records that cannot be sent through the hospital’s tube system, and transports discharged patients to the lobby when volunteers are unavailable. The Patient Transporter assists with patient lifting and transfers and is responsible for cleaning stretchers, wheelchairs, and other transport equipment, as well as maintaining portable oxygen tank supplies in designated areas. The position uses the hospital AS400 system to record and track transports, maintains transport statistics and logs, and communicates patient delays to dispatch. The role involves interaction with patients, visitors, clinical staff, ancillary departments, and non-clinical staff. It requires spending most of the shift standing or walking, with above-average physical demands, including pushing, pulling, and some lifting. There is potential exposure to infection and disease.
Requirements
- High school education or GED required.
- Ability to relate to all types of people.
- BLS certification from the American Heart Association required within 30 days.
Nice To Haves
- 1–2 years of patient transport experience preferred.
Responsibilities
- Transport or escort patients between patient units and designated hospital departments, ensuring patients are properly identified and that their charts accompany them.
- Maintain patient safety, security, and confidentiality during transport.
- Assist with lifting and transferring patients to and from beds, stretchers, and wheelchairs.
- Enter patient transports in the hospital AS400 system; log patients in and out on nursing units, obtain nursing unit signatures as appropriate, and complete the daily transport log.
- Maintain transport-related statistical performance data and submit it to the Transport Coordinator or Lead at the end of the shift.
- Communicate patient delays promptly and accurately to dispatch and resolve delays as appropriate.
- Pick up and deliver specimens from nursing units to the Lab or another appropriate department when specimens cannot be tubed under policy.
- Pick up charts from Medical Records and deliver them to nursing units when they cannot be tubed.
- Transport discharged patients from patient units to the lobby when volunteers are unavailable.
- Maintain the cleanliness of stretchers in the ER, OR, Radiology, and transport departments, and clean transport equipment.
- Maintain an adequate supply of portable oxygen tanks in designated hospital areas.
- Participate in activities supporting the hospital’s mission and in department- or hospital-wide process and outcome improvement activities.
- Use equipment and supplies prudently, complete assigned projects within expected time frames, and perform other duties as assigned.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
High school or GED
