Hospital Transporter Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• High school diploma 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 proper patient identification and that the patient chart accompanies each transport.
• Maintain patient safety, security, and confidentiality during transports.
• Assist with lifting and transferring patients to and from beds, stretchers, and wheelchairs.
• Enter transport activity 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 specimens that cannot be tubed from nursing units and deliver them to the Lab or another appropriate department.
• 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 an adequate supply of portable oxygen tanks in designated hospital areas.
• Provide customer service, communicate positively with people of different cultures, values, and beliefs, acknowledge concerns, take corrective action, and escort customers when necessary.
• Participate in hospital and department process-improvement activities and annual competency assessment; maintain self-development and comply with applicable certification requirements.
• Use equipment and supplies in a fiscally prudent manner and complete assigned projects within expected time frames.
• Perform other duties as assigned.