Emergency Room Transporter
Detroit, Michigan, United States
Responsibilities:• Transports patients via wheelchair, stretcher or bed to designated sites as requested,including patients with oxygen tanks, intravenous pumps, drips, monitors,and other equipment. • Assists patients with entering and exiting vehicles, including transfer from or to wheelchairs or stretchers. • Delivers equipment and specimens, to requesting staff or department. Assists staff with removal of deceased bodies from units and transports to morgue. • Greets and provides information and direction to patients and visitors. • Demonstrates safe work practices and attitudes, follows safety rules to prevent unsafe conditions and behaviors and participates in organizational and department safety programs. Improve patient safety in the delivery of health care by understanding and applying the patient safety goal for SJPHS/Ascension of no preventable deaths or injuries. • Ensures the patients are properly gowned and covered when transporting. Assures patient safety during transportation and properly handles IV's, oxygen tanks, catheters, chest tubes, etc. Assists with moving and holding patients during procedures as needed. • Maintains a clean environment for patients and staff. Assists with stocking linen, cleaning carts as directed. Assures all transport equipment is in working order. Completes any and all other responsibilities. • Properly identifies the patient for transportation by checking the identification band against the patient request. Observes the patient for any difficulties or discomforts they may have and reports this to the proper persons. Utilizes patient handoff appropriately.