Job Description

Patient Transporter

Transports child, adolescent, adult and geriatric patients to and from all areas/departments requiring patient transport, using wheelchairs and stretchers. Brown University Health employees are expected to successfully role model the organization's values of compassion, accountability, respect, and excellence as these values guide our everyday actions with patients, customers and one another. In addition to our values, all employees are expected to demonstrate the core success factors which tell us how we work together and how we get things done. The core success factors include: instill trust and value differences, patient and community focus, and collaborate.

Responsibilities include maintaining current CPR certification, participating in departmental and/or interdepartmental quality improvement activities, utilizing SBAR hand-off report sheet when transporting patients from unit to unit, informing nursing staff of the patient leaving the nursing unit and confirming mode of transportation, obtaining the patient's chart from the nursing units for those procedures where appropriate, greeting patient, verifying patient's identification (name & date of birth) and checking patient Identiband, informing the patient of where he/she is being transported, assisting the patients into wheelchairs or onto stretchers, utilizing appropriate equipment to meet individual and age specific needs, assuring the patients are properly dressed in hospital gowns for test and/or procedures prior to leaving the nursing units, returning the patient to room following completion of procedure or examination, informing nursing personnel immediately of any change in the patient's condition, demonstrating use of hospital approved paging system, responding to pages in a timely manner, responding to outlying areas for RRT or Code Blue with a stretcher, making and delivering special order food trays for patients on the evening shift, monitoring IV pumps to ensure proper operation and informing nursing personnel if not functioning properly, handling urinary drainage bags properly while transporting patients, assuring adequate supply of oxygen during transport, replacing filled oxygen tanks to units as needed, checking wheelchairs and stretchers for maintenance issues and bringing them to the Facilities work room, cleaning transport equipment after each use with hospital-approved environmental cleaner, assisting others with a difficult transport via smooth movers where lifting help is required, assuring that the patient's side rails are raised on stretchers at all times, assuring the patient's feet are placed securely on foot pedals when in wheelchairs, transporting patients to outpatient areas (Borden-Carey, Wound Clinic, IV Therapy, etc.), delivering reports, supplies, films, specimens, etc. throughout the hospital as requested.

Minimum qualifications include current CPR certification, the ability to read, write and follow specific instruction, physical requirements to sit 1-3 hours, stand and walk 3-7 hours per day, lift 25-50 lbs with good body mechanics, twist and bend infrequently with a workload capacity of 3-5 Mets, use both hand/wrists and perform work with moderate deviation and occasional fine motor skills, far and near vision must be accurate at 20/40, accurate depth perception, discriminate among red, green and white and hear a whisper at 8 feet.

Pay range: $18.00-$25.82

EEO statement: Brown University Health is committed to providing equal employment opportunities and maintaining a work environment free from all forms of unlawful discrimination and harassment.

Location: Newport Hospital - 11 Friendship Street Newport, Rhode Island 02840

Work type: Rotating weekends and holidays, varying schedules

Work shift: Variable

Daily hours: 8 hours

Driving required: No

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