Central Transport Aide
About the role
Under general supervision and according to established procedures, transports patients, mail, medical records, laboratory specimens, equipment and patient related materials to all areas within Hospital complex. Operates service elevators and maintains transport vehicles according to procedure. Brown University Health employees are expected to successfully role model the organization's values of Compassion, Accountability, Respect, and Excellence as these values guide our everyday actions with patients, customers and one another. In addition to our values, all employees are expected to demonstrate the core Success Factors which tell us how we work together and how we get things done. The core Success Factors include: Instill Trust and Value Differences Patient and Community Focus and Collaborate.
Responsibilities
- Following established procedures, transports patients by wheelchair or stretcher to areas within hospital complex as assigned by Dispatcher or according to needs of assigned area.
- Transfers patients to and from transport vehicles with direction and/or assistance from nursing personnel.
- Regularly collects laboratory specimens, medical records, x-rays, lab reports, prescriptions and medications, not governed by special controls, and distributes them to appropriate areas; transports special or start materials as assigned.
- Moves equipment on wheels and/or other moderately heavy equipment and materials such as hospital beds, carts, cardiac monitors and supplies.
- Collects mail and interdepartmental correspondence from mailroom and other departments; and distributes them as assigned.
- Rotates with other Aides in operating service elevators used for the transportation of patients, equipment and supplies.
- Collects and returns transport vehicles to appropriate areas; prepares same for patient use by changing linen, replacing IV poles, etc.
- Maintains a written log of all assignments, recording department, items or patients transported and times of initiation and