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Position Summary: Safely and effectively transports patients. Selects and prioritizes transports according to policy. Effectively communicates with appropriate departments regarding transport status and demonstrates effective communication through courteous behavior and the hospital hand-off process.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Alerts caregivers immediately to any signs of patient distress or equipment malfunction.
• Follows hospital department protocols for checking in patients and verifying their identity and following specific precautions identified.
• Care of Transport Equipment and Supplies
• Considers needs of family members and visitors of patients when necessary.
• Ensures timely response to all patient and patient-related transportation requests and logs into TeamThroughput™ dispatching system immediately in accordance with established guidelines.
• Works closely with hospital staff and openly communicates and problem solves to ensure client and patient needs are met.
• Responds to transport requests with a sense of urgency, meeting time delivery goals.
• Safety
• Collects and returns wheelchairs and stretchers and various equipment to their proper locations.
• Client and Patient Relations
• Assists hospital staff when needed in moving patients.
• Collects and returns wheelchairs and stretchers and various equipment to their proper locations.
• Program Quality Standards
• Maintains patient’s chart during transport and ensures confidentiality of patient information at all
• Disinfects and cleans transport equipment before and after each patient use and as required.
• Transport patients between departments and to and from patient care areas via wheelchair, stretcher, bed and other transport equipment, or ambulation as requested.
• Maintains equipment and reports equipment needing repairs.
• Ensures proper transport of patients with specific needs, for example: those requiring oxygen tanks, cardiac cath patients, young children or elderly patients, IV’s, drainage tubes, etc.
• Ensures comfort of the patient in all cases.
• Maintains a patient/customer focus fostering a teamwork environment.
• Care of Transport Equipment and Supplies
• Adheres to standard universal and disease-specific precautions and the OSHA blood borne pathogen standard.
• Adheres to all policies, procedures and standards established by all regulatory agencies including but not limited to Federal, State, JCAHO, OSHA, and CDC.
• Follows hospital specific protocols, for example: isolation and radiation precautions.
• Maintains equipment and reports equipment needing repairs.
• Follows department protocols using dispatch system appropriately.
• Meets all performance related standards including response, active and completion times.
• Disinfects and cleans transport equipment before and after each patient use and as required.
• Ensures patient safety by following established procedures and using only approved rolling equipment.

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