Patient Transporter - Day Shift
On-siteIndianapolis, Indiana, United States
Job Summary
Transport patients to and from points of service, including admissions, discharges, ancillary areas, and other service locations within the healthcare facility. Safely handle patients and equipment during transport via bed, stretcher, or wheelchair while monitoring and reporting changes in patient condition. Collaborate with nursing staff and other healthcare professionals to coordinate transfers and adhere to all safety protocols, including infection control policies. Ensure timely transport to minimize care delays. Requires training in patient oxygen equipment, lifting and transfers, and infection control; ability to work standing, walk extensively, lift up to 50 lbs, and perform repetitive motions. Full-time day shift from 7:00am to 3:30pm with every other weekend and holiday rotation.
Required Qualifications
- 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
- 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
- Ability to follow oxygen transport policy and procedures, including attaching and monitoring of oxygen tank levels during transport
- Ability to frequently work in a standing position and do large amounts of walking
- Ability to lift up to 50 lbs. and be able to stoop, bend and twist while handling these weights
- Ability to use repetitive motions such as grasping, fine manipulating, medium dexterity, forearm/wrist rotation movement area used daily
- Ability to perform the basic patient lifting through in-service for proper technique
- Eligibility for shift pay differentials
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