Location: all cities,UT, USA
Job Description:
This position is responsible for transporting of patients, focusing on quality, safety, and customer service, while providing care and compassion to patients, families, visitors and staff.
Job Essentials
* Transports inpatients in a safe and efficient manner.
* Uses appropriate and approved transport pathways to ensure confidentiality. Uses appropriate method of travel and equipment as directed.
* Uses Safe Patient Handling equipment as indicated
* Uses isolation precautions and/or standard precautions appropriately.
* Places soiled linen in designated areas.
* Dresses carts and wheelchairs with linen per procedure.
* Cleans transport equipment before and after every single patient and returns to appropriate storage areas.
* Responds to Code Disaster, Code Green, Code Pink, Code Red, and Code Yellow when required. Knows location of fire extinguishers and fire pull boxes.
* Always notifies patient nurse when taking or returning patient to/from room and notifies test site staff when patient arrives for test.
* Utilizes written Patient Handoff Form and ensures that handoff form is filled out prior to initiating transport and signs and turns in form immediately after completion of transport.
* Writes test location on whiteboard in patient room when leaving with patient.
* Notifies patient nurse or test site staff of any problems that occurred during transport concerning patient condition or safety.
* Responds to pager or other communication device such as Vocera badges in a timely and effective manner.
* Communicates openly with operators and with other staff members.
* Informs test sites and operators of any delays and clears transports when completed.
* Communicates with test sites if transport will be delayed.
Minimum Qualifications
* BLS Certification for Healthcare Providers.
* Must be at least 18 years of age if working in Radiology areas (per Intermountain' s Employment of Minors Policy).
Preferred Qualifications
* Previous experience working in a hospital environment.
Physical Requirements:
Carrying, Hearing/Listening, Lifting, Pushing/Pulling, Seeing, Speaking, Walking, Standing.
Location:
Intermountain Health McKay-Dee Hospital
Work City:
Ogden
Work State:
Utah
Scheduled Weekly Hours:
0
The hourly range for this position is listed below. Actual hourly rate dependent upon experience.
$16.56 - $21.53
We care about your well-being - mind, body, and spirit - which is why we provide our caregivers a generous benefits package that covers a wide range of programs to foster a sustainable culture of wellness that encompasses living healthy, happy, secure, connected, and engaged.
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