Patient Transporter - SRN Float Pool - Per Diem - Variable Shift

What You Will Do

• Assists with mobilizing patients using lift equipment and/or mobilization aids and other trained health care professionals to provide safe and effective patient transports throughout the facility.
• Transport equipment, supplies, specimens, and patients using the transport tracking system; ensuring that the patients are monitored and the environmental pathway is safe for travel.

Required Qualifications

• H.S. Diploma or Equivalent
• American Heart Association (AHA) Basic Life Support for Healthcare Professional (AHA BLS Healthcare) - REQUIRED
• 1 Year Hospital experience or similar experience - PREFERRED

Essential Functions

• Communicate effectively in a demanding environment.
• Demonstrate positive interpersonal skills and attitude towards patients, visitors, physicians, coworkers, supervisor, and all hospital staff.
• Communicate relevant patient information to appropriate staff.
• Recognize and address barriers to transporting and communicating with patients and their plan of care, seeking resources or options as needed.
• Communicate incomplete transports to appropriate units and staff.
• Communicate with all team members regarding day-to-day operations, barriers, and obstacles for transporting.
• Effectively provide safe and effective transports of patients utilizing correct mode of travel.
• Comply with all mobility requirements and ensure that equipment is available, stored properly, and cleaned regularly.
• Transfer and transport patients, with assistance, using complex clinical support equipment safely, maintaining the integrity of intravenous lines, suction devices, feeding tubes, etc.
• Take action in life-threatening situations and immediately notify the licensed nurse.
• Mobilize patients according to the Registered Nurse's direction, utilizing appropriate equipment or assist devices.
• Ambulate patients utilizing the appropriate equipment or assist device.
• Aid in lateral and supine patient transfers between bed, chair, gurney, and other surfaces.
• Transport patients and items correctly using the transport tracking system.
• Identify patients using two patient identifiers and follow the required patient hand-off protocol.
• Sign patients in and out of the morgue in the log book.
• Knowledge of proper body mechanics for safe transfer of patient and self.
• Working knowledge of medical terminology.

Additional Information

The stated pay scale reflects the range that Sharp reasonably expects to pay for this position. The actual pay rate and pay grade for this position will be dependent on a variety of factors, including an applicant’s years of experience, unique skills and abilities, education, alignment with similar internal candidates, marketplace factors, other requirements for the position, and employer business practices.