ER Support Technician (PRN) - Patient Transport & Care

St. Dominic Hospital; Jackson (MS); Sur place; USD 17 000 - 22 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

St. Dominic Hospital in Jackson, MS, seeks a patient transport associate to support emergency outpatients under the supervision of the charge nurse. You will move patients by wheelchair or stretcher, assist with ambulation, and provide basic care while maintaining safety and patient dignity.

You will handle labs, delivery of samples, restocking, and coordinating with nurses and physicians. The role requires lifting up to 50 pounds, standing for long periods, and complying with infection control

Responsabilités

• Transports patients using wheelchair or stretcher within the hospital and to and from vehicles.
• Assists those patients requiring help with ambulation.
• Provides general and basic patient care, such as positioning patients, lifting and turning, assisting in use of bedpan, commode, and urinal or bathroom.
• Answers and responds to call lights or uses intercom to determine patient needs, and advises nurse of needs beyond scope of position.
• Cleans and changes stretcher linen between patients and as needed during patient visit.
• Empties dirty laundry.
• Labels, bags, and delivers samples to lab per hospital protocol.
• Assists patients to dress and undress and cares for patient belongings, including bagging and labeling same.
• Restocks linen and supplies in exam rooms, fills blanket warmer, and provides general cleaning.
• Answers phone calls, calls consulting physicians as directed by physicians and other staff members, makes appointments as directed by physicians or other staff members.
• Reviews charge sheets and enters charges into AS-400.
• Provides direct observation for confused or psychiatric patients.
• Performs routine, uncomplicated treatment procedures such as splinting limbs, wound cleansing, taking vital signs, chaperones pelvic and rectal examinations.
• Sets up for suturing and procedures, dismantles procedure set appropriately.
• Immediately reports any observed changes in condition or behavior of patients and documents any care given.
• Immediately reports any unusual incidents to primary nurse, charge nurse, or nurse manager.
• Responsible for daily checking and stocking of treatment rooms and procedural carts to ensure more efficient patient treatment.
• Standard precautions are exercised with all patients and procedures.
• Patients are appropriately identified prior to any intervention per hospital protocol.
• Knowledge of institutions fire/safety/infection control programs is consistently demonstrated in practice.
• Annual mandatory training activities are completed within established time frames.
• Performs other duties as assigned or directed and within the scope of abilities.

Description du poste

St. Dominic Hospital in Jackson, MS, seeks a patient transport associate to support emergency outpatients under the supervision of the charge nurse. You will move patients by wheelchair or stretcher, assist with ambulation, and provide basic care while maintaining safety and patient dignity.

You will handle labs, delivery of samples, restocking, and coordinating with nurses and physicians. The role requires lifting up to 50 pounds, standing for long periods, and complying with infection control