PATIENT TRANSPORTER
Company: Dartmouth Health
Location: Lebanon
Posted on: October 25, 2024
Job Description:
Overview** $5,000 Sign on/Retention bonus **Days, evenings and
night shifts available.We have an exciting opportunity for you to
join our Supply Chain team and grow your career in Patient
Transportation with our new career ladder, Patient Transporter 1,
2, 3 and 4. On-the-job training in the role allows you to advance
through the career ladder to obtain increased responsibility and
compensation.We have fulltime on the day, evening, or night shift.
Full-time new hires are eligible for the sign-on bonus.Please
indicate on your application which shift you are looking for.Our
team is excited about welcoming you to Supply Chain and helping you
advance your career through training and competency based skills
assessments.Start this exciting journey by applying online or
reaching out to us!Watch our video below to learn more about the
Patient Transporter role:Responsibilities
- Provides safe, efficient transport of patients, equipment, and
miscellaneous supplies.
- Communicates effectively with other departments to assess their
transport needs.Patient Responsibilities:
- Provides transportation services for patients, including, but
not limited to, children from premature to young adult, adults,
geriatric, bariatric, and critical care patients of all ages.
Transportation works with nursing to ambulate patients into and out
of beds/chairs and to/from wheelchairs/stretchers utilizing a
variety of lifting techniques and electro-mechanical lifting
equipment to assist with lifting, moving, holding and transferring
patients.
- During patient moves, Transporters care for the non-clinical
needs of their patient and respond/activate emergency protocols in
the event of a cardiac arrest during transport, including
initiating CPR. Responds and provides non-clinical assistance to
emergency staff during emergent situations such as Code Whites,
Code Blues, Stroke alerts, mass transfusions, and ED traumas.
Assists with non-clinical functions including stat patient
movements to diagnostic imaging/emergent procedures, stat retrieval
of blood products, and emergency equipment as directed by the
nursing staff.
- Coordinates the verification and transfer of deceased patients
to the on-site mortuary and to local Funeral Homes.Equipment
Responsibilities:
- Provides transportation of patient care equipment including but
not limited to, carts (Respiratory Isolation, Dialysis, Traction),
Cardiac Chairs, Restraint Boxes, Arctic Sun, Vanderlifts, and Sit
to Stands; a variety of pumps (Sigma, Wound Vacs, Epidural, PCAs,
Patrol, Thermal); and Sequential Compression devices.
Transportation also provides Diagnostic/procedural instrumentation
on a routine and/or emergent (Stat) basis.
- Transports and/or assembles beds and bed-related equipment,
various orthopedic equipment, as well as drop off and pickup of
clean or soiled surgical instrumentation.
- Maintains, cleans, and prepares emergency equipment, including,
but not limited to, Code Blue Carts, Code White stretchers, Arctic
Suns, Hover Jacks, AirPals, Airway boxes for emergency intubations,
and off-hour AED battery replacements. Maintenance includes
swapping and inventorying monthly outdates on Code Carts, Airway
Boxes, and other emergency equipment, as well as inventory of said
equipment after emergency uses. Disinfects transport equipment
prior to patient transport and at the completion of the assignment
and follows infection control guidelines and safety protocols when
transporting patients and patient equipment.
- Follows proper safety protocol when assigned to pick up
patients from the Helipad. Transports, cleans, tags, and returns IV
poles, monitors, wheelchairs, stretchers, pumps, scales, lifts, and
other patient equipment to the designated storage area.
- Provides transportation of medical supplies, including various
fluids used for Hemo and Peritoneal Dialysis.
- Observes and reports to leader when equipment or wheelchair and
stretcher fleet require maintenance or replacement.
- Works with Procurement to identify new equipment
requirements.
- Delivers most medical supply items found in the hospital during
the evenings and overnight.Emerging Strategies:
- Returns pages/phone calls in a timely manner.
- Receives assignments via pagers and handheld technology from
dispatchers or supervisors and enters pick-ups and completions of
assignments in the bed system via departmental systems as
trained.
- May perform departmental dispatch duties, including emergency
response, patient transport and movement of equipment as required.
Works with internal web team to assist in the design, maintenance,
and population of the internal Supply Chain website with useful,
timely information and links.
- Presents a professional demeanor at all times while carrying
out transport duties.
- Performs audits, reports results and participates in developing
solutions (i.e., Clutter Taskforce) and implementation activities
to ensure compliance with FDA, Joint Commission, Department of
Health policies and procedures.
- Participates in the implementation of the Pandemic and
Infectious disease operational plan for Supply Chain.
- May coordinate with manufacturers, vendors, and regional
hospitals or partners to ensure availability of equipment,
supplies, and PPE on off-shifts or in the absence of the
leader.
- May participate on the Recalls, Alerts, Substitutions, and
Hazards (RASH) Committee.Qualifications--- High school graduate or
the equivalent (i.e., GED) preferred.--- Must be able to maintain
the required competencies for this position.--- Good communication
skills required--- Basic computer skills requiredRequired
Licensure/Certifications--- Hands only CPR--- Safe patient handling
competencies must be completed within 90 days of employment
- Area of Interest:Service;
- FTE/Hours per pay period:1.00 - 1.00 - 40 hrs/week;
- Shift:Day;
- Job ID:26672;Dartmouth Health is an Affirmative Action and
Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive
consideration for employment without regard to race, color,
religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national
origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated
against on the basis of disability.Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical
Center and Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics comply with applicable
Federal civil rights laws and do not discriminate on the basis of
race, color, national origin, age, disability, or sex. We do not
exclude or treat people differently because of race, color,
national origin, age, disability, or sex.
Keywords: Dartmouth Health, New England , PATIENT TRANSPORTER, Other , Lebanon, Northeast
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