Patient Transport Specialist ED- PRN/ 11a-7:30p Kalamazoo

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Location

BMH Bronson Methodist Hospital

Title

Patient Transport Specialist ED- PRN / 11a-7 : 30p Kalamazoo

The ED Patient Transport Specialist provides a comprehensive array of patient-focused services. This position is responsible for lifting, standing, and pushing patients in wheelchairs and on gurneys to and from the Emergency department.

Employees providing direct patient care must demonstrate competencies specific to the population served.

High school diploma or general education degree (GED) and 6 months related customer service work experience required.

BLS certification is required within the first 90 days

Competency in putting patients on and removing from cardiac monitors.

• Must have the ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
• Proficiency in the use of EPIC, Cisco telephone, and Vocera is necessary.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and proven organization skills essential.
• Must have sound analytical skills.
• Must move quickly throughout the Emergency Department and respond to all stat requests.
• Must be friendly, positive, and professional when working with patients.
• Must adapt to situations when transporting patients of all ages including children, adolescents, adults, and geriatric.
• Must possess basic computer skills

Work that produces high levels of mental / visual fatigue, e.g. CRT work between 70 and 90 percent of the time, and work involving extremely close tolerances and considerable hand / eye coordination for sustained periods.

Job requires high levels of strength and stamina to regularly lift weights to 100 pounds and occasionally assist with heavier tasks or expend the equivalent effort in pushing, pulling, or otherwise handling material, equipment, and other objects.

• Assist patients / family and visitors in navigating throughout the campus.
• Able to navigate patients throughout the campus efficiently and safely.
• Transfer patients from one surface or location to another.
• Assist patients in walking, sitting up, and moving from one support device to another.
• Able to push and pull beds, stretchers, wheelchairs, and rental beds while occupied and unoccupied across different surfaces.
• Lift, pull, or operate heavy equipment including beds, IV poles, IV pumps, oxygen tanks, morgue carts, electric carts, and wheelchairs.
• Knowledge of unit locations and procedures areas.
• Knowledge of Bronson policies.
• Knowledge of situations when assistance is required.
• Knowledge of supply room locations
• Ability to contact nursing and support staff for information and assistance
• Ability to appropriately utilize equipment such as slider boards, oxygen tanks, computers, etc.
• Able to handle and transfer medical equipment including Foley catheters with collection bags, chest tubes, monitors, etc.
• Effectively cleans equipment after patient use
• Maintain customer service standards
• Able to explain activities to patients and families
• Verify patient identification
• Retrieve needed supplies or linens from supply rooms
• Transport visitors between campuses
• Transfer expired patients to the morgue

Shift

First Shift

Time Type

Part time

Scheduled Weekly Hours

Cost Center

1620 Environmental Services (BMH)

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