Patient Transporter - Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center - Per Diem - Variable Shift

Chula Vista Medical Center; Chula Vista (CA); On-site; USD 39,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

Sharp HealthCare in California is seeking a Patient Transporter to assist in mobilizing patients using lift equipment and supporting hospital staff in a fast-paced setting.

You will transport equipment, supplies, specimens, and patients, monitor safety, and maintain clear communication with the care team under RN supervision.

Qualifications

• H.S. Diploma or Equivalent.
• AHA Basic Life Support for Healthcare Professional (AHA BLS Healthcare) is REQUIRED.

Responsibilities

• Communicate effectively with patients and hospital staff in a demanding environment.
• Safely transport patients using appropriate equipment and maintain mobility safety.
• Transfer and mobilize patients with assist devices under RN supervision.
• Maintain transport logs and ensure patient identifiers are correct.

Skills

Communication

Teamwork

Safety

Medical terminology

Education

High School Diploma or Equivalent

AHA BLS Healthcare Provider Certification

Job description

Hours:

Shift Start Time: Variable

Shift End Time: Variable

AWS Hours Requirement: 8/40 - 8 Hour Shift

Weekend Requirements: Every Other

On-Call Required: No

Hourly Pay Range (Minimum - Midpoint - Maximum): $28.390 - $31.380 - $34.620

This position is covered by a Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) with SEIU-UHW. As part of the terms of employment, employees in this role are required to join the union within 31 days of hire and remain a member (e.g. dues paying, fee paying, religious exception contributor) for the duration of the collective bargaining agreement.

What You Will Do

Patient Transport assists with mobilizing patients using lift equipment and/or mobilization aids and other trained health care professional to provide safe and effective patient transports throughout the facility. Patient Transporters transport equipment, supplies, specimens, and patients using the transport tracking system; ensuring that the patients are monitored and the environmental pathway is safe for travel.

Required Qualifications

• H.S. Diploma or Equivalent
• AHA Basic Life Support for Healthcare Professional (AHA BLS Healthcare) - American Heart Association -REQUIRED

Preferred Qualifications

• 1 Year Hospital experience or similar experience.

Essential Functions

• Communication and teamwork
  * Practice effective communication in a demanding environment.
  * Demonstrates positive interpersonal skills and attitude towards patients, visitors, physicians, coworkers, supervisor, and all hospital staff.
  * Communicates relevant patient information to appropriate staff.
  * Recognizes barriers to transporting and communicating with patients and their plan of care and seeks resources or options.
  * Communicates incomplete transports to appropriate units and staff.
  * Communicates with all team members in regards to day-to-day operations; barriers and/or obstacles for transporting.
• Safety
  * Effectively provides safe and effective transports of patients utilizing correct mode of travel.
  * Complies with all mobility requirements and ensures that equipment is available, stored properly, and cleaned regularly.
  * Demonstrates the ability to transfer and transport patients, with assistance, with complex clinical support equipment safely, maintains the integrity of intravenous lines, suction devices, feeding tubes, etc.
  * Takes action in life threatening situations and immediately notifies the licensed nurse.
• Patient mobilization
  * Role models and utilizes appropriate use of lift and mobilization equipment and/or aids.
  * Under the direction of the Registered Nurse, ambulates patient utilizing the appropriate equipment or assist device.
  * Assist with lateral and supine patient transfers from bed to chair, chair to bed, bed to gurney, gurney to bed, bed to bed, etc.
• Transport
  Patients and Items:
  * Correctly utilizes the transport tracking system for transporting patients and items:
  * Tracking and progressing jobs
  * Accepting jobs - limited job rejections
  * Delay and cancellation of jobs
  * Uses mini tasks and task assistance when available
  * Correctly identifies patients by using two patient identifiers.
  * Transports patient with required patient hand-off protocol.
  * Maintains the log book for signing patients in and out of the morgue.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Knowledge of proper body mechanics for safe transfer of patient and self.
• Working knowledge of medical terminology.

Sharp HealthCare is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, status as a protected veteran, among other things, or status as a qualified individual with disability or any other protected class

H.S. Diploma or Equivalent; AHA Basic Life Support for Healthcare Professional (AHA BLS Healthcare) - American Heart Association