Patient Transporter - Evening Shift

IU Health; Indianapolis (IN); On-site; USD 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

IU Health Methodist Hospital seeks a Patient Transporter to move patients and items safely within the facility. You will identify patients with two identifiers, ensure safe handoffs with care teams, and assist with transfers between beds, stretchers, or wheelchairs.

Responsibilities include transporting deceased patients to morgue storage, logging times, handling morgue paperwork, and maintaining PPE, cleanliness, and patient confidentiality throughout shifts.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Training in oxygen equipment and monitoring levels.
• Ability to follow oxygen transport policy and procedures.
• Ability to lift up to 50 lbs and perform transfers.
• Willingness to rotate weekends and holidays as required.

Responsibilities

• Transport patients and items safely within the hospital.
• Identify patient using two identifiers and ensure proper handoff with care teams.
• Move patients from bed to stretcher or wheelchair.
• Transport deceased patients and complete morgue paperwork and cold storage logging.
• Use PPE for entering all room types and maintain patient safety and confidentiality.

Skills

Standing and walking

Lift up to 50 lbs

Dexterity & repetitive motions

Infection control

Care-team communication

Oxygen equipment monitoring

Education

High school diploma

Job description

Overview

Position Details:

Status: Full-Time, 40 hours per week.

Schedule: Rotating weekends and holidays required.

Shift Hours: 1:30 PM - 10:00 PM

Location: IU Health Methodist Hospital

Position Summary:

Use transport application to transport patients and items safely from origin to destination within the hospital. Must properly identify patient for transport by using two identifiers. Transporters must have safe handoff of patient with caregivers at origin and destination. Must communicate and work closely with care teams when moving patients. Disconnects and reconnects oxygen from wall in patient room. Patient transporters must monitor oxygen levels on the oxygen tank to ensure patient safety. Safely moves patients from bed to stretcher or wheelchair.

Responsible for transporting deceased patients and death paperwork from patient room to the morgue where they will secure the patient in controlled cold temperature storage. Will log patient into the morgue inventory and document time patient was placed in cold storage. Responsible for proper storage of beds, stretchers, wheelchairs, and items. Properly identify bed types for delivery to units. Properly uses personal protective equipment (PPE) to enter all room types to include isolation rooms. Safely disposes of soiled and used linen. Uses chemicals to properly sanitize patient transport equipment before and after each use. Maintains patient safety and confidentiality.

Position Requirements:

• High school graduate or an equivalent combination of education experience from which comparable job knowledge can be acquired; to include graduates from an approved IU Health transition-to-work program.
• Requires training in all assigned competencies such as but not limited to patient oxygen equipment and monitoring of levels and amounts, patient lifting and transfers, and infection control policies.
• Requires the ability to follow oxygen transport policy and procedures, including attaching and monitoring of oxygen tank levels during transport.
• Must have the ability to frequently work in a standing position and do large amounts of walking.
• Must have the ability to lift up to 50 lbs. and be able to stoop, bend and twist while handling these weights.
• Must have the ability to use repetitive motions such as grasping, fine manipulating, medium dexterity, forearm/wrist rotation movement area used daily.
• Must have the ability to perform the basic patient lifting through in-service for proper technique.
• No experience required.