Transporter PT - Evenings
About The Position
Under the direction of a RN, the Transporter transfers patients between patient care areas and works cooperatively with team members to ensure timely transporting, EKG and secretary services. The transporter is stationed on one of the units in Central Tower and supports the unit secretary responsibilities when not actively transporting or performing EKGs. The role involves providing health care services to various age groups, cleaning and maintaining equipment, transporting items, reporting patient condition changes, running errands, adhering to infection control policies, initiating emergency measures, maintaining medication security, answering telephones, and participating in code situations. Additionally, the transporter orients new personnel, assists team members, performs EKGs when the EKG technician is unavailable, and fulfills the role of Unit Secretary for order entry, patient record assembly, and nursing support.
Requirements
- 1 year of experience in an acute or skilled nursing environment providing direct patient care.
- BCLS or ACLS Certification
Responsibilities
- Transfers patients between patient care areas.
- Identifies patients using identity band to verify name, birth date, and admission number.
- Assists with moving patients onto/off of the gurney.
- Raises side rails of gurney to secure patients.
- Ensures patient privacy by seeing that patients are appropriately covered.
- Ensures patient charts accompany patients transferring.
- Cleans and maintains gurney after each use.
- Transports equipment and beds as requested.
- Reports any noted changes in patients condition to RN.
- Does errands within the hospital as requested.
- Adheres to all policies and procedures relating to infection control and isolation practices.
- Initiates appropriate emergency measures for cardiac/respiratory arrest.
- Maintains medication security to authorized personnel only.
- Answers the telephone promptly and courteously and relays calls/messages to the appropriate person in a timely manner.
- Participates in code situations as directed, eg Code Blue, Orange, Green, Gray, Pink, and Red.
- Orients new personnel to unit, equipment, and routines.
- Assists other team members by offering assistance to distribute the workload.
- Performs EKGs on in-patients when the EKG technician is not available.
- Refers reading of the EKG to the primary RN or Rapid Response Nurse.
- Notifies RN of the EKG and any alert regarding critical results.
- Performs role and responsibility of Unit Secretary for order entry, assembly of patient records and nursing support to obtain needed documents.
- Answers patients call lights via intercom system and alerts appropriate personnel to patient’s needs.
- Reports matters requiring nursing intervention immediately.
- Requests hospital services for patients by placing calls to appropriate areas.
- Attends to call lights and ensures appropriate notification and follow through to personnel with pagers or voice mail.
- Participates in organizing, filing and or scanning all information in the patient’s medical chart.
- Ensures that necessary forms, consults and test results are available to the physician(s) as needed.
- Assists scanning forms into patients records.
- Accepts and screens telephone calls on the main office line and routes calls appropriately.
- Acknowledges patients and family members as they come to front station.
- Acts as a resource for patients and family/visitors.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Part-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
