Employment Type:
Part time
Shift:
Rotating Shift
Description:
POSITION PURPOSE
Transfer and transport patients safely and effectively from Patient Care Areas to and from diagnostic/ testing areas including expired patients to the morgue.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES MAY INCLUDE:
Transport stable, non-monitored patients from Patient Care Areas to and from diagnostic/ testing areas (such as CT, X-ray, Angio, Hemo) and to inpatient units for admissions. Able to effectively communicate with the patient, family, visitors, and the direct care providers. Transporters are to directly speak with the RN or the Healthcare Provider prior to a transport and when the patient returns to the unit. Transporters are to assist the patient with his/her restroom needs as necessary. Able to safely transfer patients using a transfer device such as a patient sling, slide board, or other hospital approved transfer devices. Cleans transport equipment between each patient use. Transport, locate, and redistribute equipment such as stretchers, wheelchairs, Airpals, Stryker Glides, oxygen, and other necessary equipment to perform transports. Replaces oxygen tanks as needed (less than 500 psi). 9. Provides directions to families and/or visitors 10. Maintains current BLS certification. Attends and participates in departmental meetings and continuing educational activities. Provides quality patient care by considering the age specific, development and cultural needs through competent clinical practice. Demonstrates unit/area competencies. Maintains good rapport and cooperative relationships. Approaches conflict in a constructive manner. Helps to identify problems, offer solutions, and participate in their resolution. Maintains the confidentiality of information acquired pertaining to patient, physicians, colleagues, and visitors to St. Joseph Mercy Health. Discusses patient and hospital information only among appropriate personnel in appropriately private places. Behaves in accordance with the Code of Conduct, Service Excellence Standards, and the Mission, Vision and Values of SJMH. Assumes responsibility for performance of job duties in the safest possible manner, to assure personal safety and that of coworkers, and to report all preventable hazards and unsafe practices immediately to management.
OTHER FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Performs other duties as assigned.
REQUIRED EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE AND CERTIFICATION/LICENSURE Education: High school diploma or GED recommended.
Experience: Prior Healthcare experience is not required.
Certification/Licensure: Basic cardiac life support required.
SJSEMIHospital TransporterR01970
REQUIRED SKILLS AND ABILITIES
Excellent customer service skills Able to effectively organize work assignments Must be a self-starter - transporters work without the direction of a dispatcher and have the autonomy to select his/her next transports. Interpersonal skills necessary to communicate with co-workers and a variety of Health System personnel when transporting a patient. Ability to follow written and verbal instructions. Intensive walking between 12 to 15 miles in an 8-hour shift. Ability to walk or stand for hours at a time. Ability to push wheelchair or stretcher weighing up to 700 lbs.
Trinity Health's Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
Trinity Health employs about 133,000 colleagues at dozens of hospitals and hundreds of health centers in 22 states. Because we serve diverse populations, our colleagues are trained to recognize the cultural beliefs, values, traditions, language preferences, and health practices of the communities that we serve and to apply that knowledge to produce positive health outcomes. We also recognize that each of us has a different way of thinking and perceiving our world and that these differences often lead to innovative solutions.
Trinity Health's dedication to diversity includes a unified workforce (through training and education, recruitment, retention and development), commitment and accountability, communication, community partnerships, and supplier diversity.
Trinity Health is one of the largest multi-institutional Catholic health care delivery systems in the nation, serving diverse communities that include more than 30 million people across 22 states. Trinity Health includes 94 hospitals, as well as 109 continuing care locations that include PACE programs, senior living facilities, and home care and hospice services. Its continuing care programs provide nearly 2.5 million visits annually.
Based in Livonia, Mich., and with annual operating revenues of $17.6 billion and assets of $24.7 billion, the organization returns $1.1 billion to its communities annually in the form of charity care and other community benefit programs. Trinity Health employs about 133,000 colleagues, including 7,800 employed physicians and clinicians.
Committed to those who are poor and underserved in its communities, Trinity Health is known for its focus on the country's aging population. As a single, unified ministry, the organization is the innovator of Senior Emergency Departments, the largest not-for-profit provider of home health care services - ranked by number of visits - in the nation, as well as the nation's leading provider of PACE (Program of All Inclusive Care for the Elderly) based on the number of available programs. For more information, visit www.trinity-health.org . You can also follow @TrinityHealthMI on Twitter.