Patient Transporter - Nights

Job description

Overview Provides safe, efficient transport of patients, equipment, and miscellaneous supplies. Communicates effectively with other departments to assess their transport needs. Responsibilities: Patient Responsibilities: - Provides transportation services for patients, including, but not limited to, children from premature to young adult, adults, geriatric, bariatric, and critical care patients of all ages. Transportation works with nursing to ambulate patients into and out of beds/chairs and to/from wheelchairs/stretchers utilizing a variety of lifting techniques and electro- mechanical lifting equipment to assist with lifting, moving, holding and transferring patients. During patient moves, Transporters care for the non-clinical needs of their patient and respond/activate emergency protocols in the event of a cardiac arrest during transport, including initiating CPR. - Responds and provides non-clinical assistance to emergency staff during emergent situations such as Code Whites, Code Blues, Stroke alerts, mass transfusions, and ED traumas. Assists with non-clinical functions including stat patient movements to diagnostic imaging/emergent procedures, stat retrieval of blood produ...