Endoscopy

Purpose :

Volunteers help the staff in the Endoscopy Department in various ways : transporting patients, answering phone calls, stocking supplies, etc.

Responsibilities :

• Greet patients, show them where to go.
• Assist in transporting patients in wheelchairs when necessary.
• Take post-op charts back to nurses? station and hang in rack.
• Keep visitors lounge looking neat, straighten up magazines, etc.
• Take specimens down to lab when asked.
• Assemble paper work for charts.
• Empty shredding bin when full.
• Answer phones and transfer calls as needed.
• Get charts ready for the next day.
• Assist with cleaning and prepping rooms for the next patient.
• Fold patient gowns placing them on the bed.