Patient Transporter
About The Position
The Patient Transporter moves patients to and from designated locations within the hospital and transports laboratory specimens that cannot be sent through the tube system. The role also includes transporting charts that cannot be tubed, assisting with patient transfers, cleaning transport equipment, and maintaining portable oxygen tank supplies in designated hospital areas. Patient safety, identification, security, and confidentiality must be maintained during transports. The position is based in Nyack, New York, in the Patient Transportation department. The scheduled evening shift is 2:30 PM to 11 PM, with an eight-hour daily schedule and 40 hours per pay period. The work schedule includes alternate weekends, a rotating schedule, weekends, and holidays.
Requirements
- High school diploma or GED required.
- Ability to relate to people of all types and ages.
- BLS certification from the American Heart Association required within 30 days.
- Ability to spend most of the shift standing or walking.
- Above-average physical demands, including pushing, pulling, some lifting, and patient lifting and transfers.
- Potential exposure to infection and disease.
Nice To Haves
- 1–2 years of patient transport experience preferred.
Responsibilities
- Transport and escort patients between patient units and designated hospital departments, confirming patient identification and accompanying the patient chart.
- 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/Lead at the end of the shift.
- Communicate patient delays promptly and accurately to dispatch and resolve delays with dispatch as appropriate.
- Pick up specimens from nursing units and deliver them to the Lab or another appropriate department when they cannot be tubed, in accordance with policy.
- Pick up charts from Medical Records that cannot be tubed and deliver them to nursing units.
- Transport discharged patients from patient units to the lobby when volunteers are unavailable.
- Clean stretchers in the ER, OR, Radiology, and transport departments, and clean transport equipment.
- Maintain adequate supplies of portable oxygen tanks in designated hospital areas.
- Support the hospital's mission and participate in department- or hospital-wide activities to improve processes or outcomes.
- Provide positive customer interactions, communicate respectfully with people of different cultures, values, and beliefs, address customer concerns, and escort customers when necessary.
- Use equipment and supplies in a fiscally prudent manner; complete assignments within expected time frames.
- Maintain self-development and knowledge, comply with applicable certification requirements, and participate in annual competency assessment.
- 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
