Patient Transporter Job at Sharp Healthcare, San Diego, CA

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  • Sharp Healthcare
  • San Diego, CA

Job Description

Required Qualifications

  • H.S. Diploma or Equivalent
  • AHA Basic Life Support for Healthcare Professional (AHA BLS Healthcare) - American Heart Association - REQUIRED

Preferred Qualifications

  • 1 Year Hospital experience or similar experience.

Essential Functions

  • Communication and teamwork
    • Practice effective communication in a demanding environment.
    • Demonstrates positive interpersonal skills and attitude towards patients, visitors, physicians, coworkers, supervisor, and all hospital staff.
    • Communicates relevant patient information to appropriate staff.
    • Recognizes barriers to transporting and communicating with patients and their plan of care and seeks resources or options.
    • Communicates incomplete transports to appropriate units and staff.
    • Communicates with all team members in regards to day-to-day operations; barriers and/or obstacles for transporting.
  • Safety
    • Effectively provides safe and effective transports of patients utilizing correct mode of travel.
    • Complies with all mobility requirements and ensures that equipment is available, stored properly, and cleaned regularly.
    • Demonstrates the ability to transfer and transport patients, with assistance, with complex clinical support equipment safely, maintains the integrity of intravenous lines, suction devices, feeding tubes, etc.
    • Takes action in life threatening situations and immediately notifies the licensed nurse.
  • Patient mobilization
    • Role models and utilizes appropriate use of lift and mobilization equipment and/or aids.
    • Under the direction of the Registered Nurse, ambulates patient utilizing the appropriate equipment or assist device.
    • Assist with lateral and supine patient transfers from bed to chair, chair to bed, bed to gurney, gurney to bed, bed to bed, etc.
  • Transport Patients and Items:
    • Correctly utilizes the transport tracking system for transporting patients and items:
    • Tracking and progressing jobs
    • Accepting jobs - limited job rejections
    • Delay and cancellation of jobs
    • Uses mini tasks and task assistance when available
    • Correctly identifies patients by using two patient identifiers.
    • Transports patient with required patient hand-off protocol.
    • Maintains the log book for signing patients in and out of the morgue.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

  • Knowledge of proper body mechanics for safe transfer of patient and self.
  • Working knowledge of medical terminology.

Sharp HealthCare is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, status as a protected veteran, among other things, or status as a qualified individual with disability or any other protected class.

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