Patient Transporter - Overnights

The University of Kansas Health System•Kansas City, KS

4d•Onsite

About The Position

The Patient Transporter moves patients between locations and treatment areas, assisting patients in and out of vehicles and helicopters, lifting them on and off beds, and transporting them using wheelchairs or movable beds. The role also handles non-patient moves and related tasks that support patient care. This is a full-time overnight position at Bell Hospital, with a stated shift of 9:30 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. The transporter provides safe, efficient, patient-centered service; attends to patient comfort, privacy, and safety; communicates with nursing staff, receiving departments, and the Central Transportation and Dispatch (CTD) Dispatcher; and operates and maintains transport equipment. The role may also assist with dispatch data entry, training and orientation of new employees, and other duties as assigned.

Requirements

High school graduate or GED is listed as preferred education and experience.
Basic Cardiac Life Support (BLS or BCLS) certification from the American Heart Association is required within 60 days of hire.
Ability to perform the professional, clinical, or technical competencies of the assigned unit or department.
Ability to safely operate the patient-transport equipment specified in the posting.

Nice To Haves

High school graduate or GED.

Responsibilities

Transport patients to and from treatment areas, operating rooms, and other locations using appropriate equipment or modes of transportation.
Assist patients in and out of taxis, ambulances, cars, and helicopters, and lift or move patients on and off beds.
Demonstrate critical thinking, interpersonal, and technical skills, and provide care and service safely and efficiently.
Maintain a neat, clean, professional appearance and demonstrate professionalism at all times.
Stay productive and take initiative by seeking transport assignments, requesting the next move, checking patient readiness, and requesting another move when an assignment is delayed more than five minutes.
Keep the CTD radio on and wear an earpiece while at the hospital, including during breaks; use appropriate radio etiquette and ten-codes.
Properly identify patients and protect their privacy and confidentiality.
Notify nursing staff before leaving the floor with a patient and after returning, and sign patients in and out of each patient care area.
Attend to patient comfort and safety during transport; assist nursing personnel with positioning and immobilizing patients as required, including management of IVs and portable oxygen.
Inform receiving departments in person when patients arrive and communicate changes in status, delays, cancellations, refusals, and transportation-mode changes to appropriate staff and the CTD Dispatcher.
Assist other Central Transportation Department staff, including with transport tasks and locating equipment.
Take responsibility for patient and non-patient transport activities and related tasks that contribute to patient care; handle both types of moves with urgency.
Return stretchers, wheelchairs, beds, and other transportation equipment to proper locations after use.
Complete daily assignments efficiently, in an organized manner, and accurately.
Interact with physicians and technical staff to provide quality, safe, and efficient patient care.
Report equipment malfunctions to the Dispatcher, mark equipment appropriately, and deliver it to Biomed.
Attend annual refresher and other required training to demonstrate competency with patient transport equipment.
Answer the pager promptly and courteously.
Enter transportation data into the CTD computer when assisting the Dispatcher.
Assist the Supervisor with departmental training and new-employee orientation, and train new employees in maintaining and collecting transportation data.
Perform Patient Transporter functions and other duties as requested or assigned.
Safely operate transport equipment, including wheelchairs, stretchers/gurneys, TotaLift chairs, telemetry monitors, slide boards, Air-Pal devices, gate belts, oxygen tanks and related components, video chairs, and beds.