Patient Transporter - Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center - Per Diem - Variable Shift
About The Position
Patient Transport assists with mobilizing patients using lift equipment, mobilization aids, and other trained health care professionals to provide safe and effective transports throughout the facility. Patient Transporters transport equipment, supplies, specimens, and patients using the transport tracking system, ensuring patients are monitored and the environmental pathway is safe for travel. This position is per diem with variable shifts and is covered by a Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) with SEIU-UHW. Employees are required to join the union within 31 days of hire and remain a member, such as a dues-paying member, fee-paying member, or religious-exception contributor, for the duration of the collective bargaining agreement.
Requirements
- High school diploma or equivalent.
- American Heart Association Basic Life Support for Healthcare Professionals (AHA BLS Healthcare) certification is required.
- Knowledge of proper body mechanics for safe patient and self-transfer.
- Working knowledge of medical terminology.
Nice To Haves
- One year of hospital experience or similar experience.
Responsibilities
- Communicate effectively in a demanding environment and maintain positive interpersonal skills with patients, visitors, physicians, coworkers, supervisors, and hospital staff.
- Communicate relevant patient information to appropriate staff, identify barriers to transporting or communicating with patients, seek resources or options, and report incomplete transports to appropriate units and staff.
- Communicate with team members about day-to-day operations and transportation barriers or obstacles.
- Provide safe and effective patient transports using the correct mode of travel.
- Comply with mobility requirements and ensure equipment is available, properly stored, and regularly cleaned.
- Safely transfer and transport patients, with assistance, while managing complex clinical support equipment and maintaining the integrity of intravenous lines, suction devices, feeding tubes, and similar equipment.
- Take action in life-threatening situations and immediately notify the licensed nurse.
- Use lift and mobilization equipment or aids appropriately and serve as a role model for their use.
- Under the direction of the Registered Nurse, ambulate patients using appropriate equipment or assistive devices.
- Assist with lateral and supine patient transfers between beds, chairs, and gurneys.
- Use the transport tracking system to track and progress jobs, accept jobs with limited rejections, manage delays and cancellations, and use mini tasks and task assistance when available.
- Identify patients using two patient identifiers and follow the required patient hand-off protocol.
- Maintain the log book for signing patients in and out of the morgue.
- Transport equipment, supplies, specimens, and patients while monitoring patients and ensuring a safe travel pathway.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Part-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
High school or GED
