Job Description

Transports patients from their rooms to the ancillary departments.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

Transports patients to the appropriate department using the appropriate equipment to ensure the safety of the patient

Has an understanding of the medical condition of the patient being transported in order to ensure the safety of the patient

Operation of equipment is performed in a safe and smooth manner so that the patient is not disturbed

Use of personal protective equipment is utilized as instructed

Equipment is maintained in proper working condition

Repairs are reported to the supervisor and the equipment is tagged and removed from service.

Displays a professional demeanor at all times. Uniform will be in compliance with the department policy and is clean/pressed for daily use. Patient/public and customer contact is professional and all requests are handled with a sense of urgency.

Assignments are completed quickly and accurately without having to be prompted

Maintains confidentiality of patient and hospital information. As patients are transported from one area to another, patient information is keep form public view

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Attends all required safety training programs and can describe his/her responsibilities related to general safety, department/service safety, specific job related hazards, and national patient safety goals.

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Ensures positive customer relations interactions

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Manages difficult or emotional customer situations

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Responds promptly to customer needs

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Solicits customer feedback to improve service

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Responds to requests for service and assistance

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Meets commitments

Key Accountabilities

Transports patients to the appropriate department using the appropriate equipment to ensure the safety of the patient

Has an understanding of the medical condition of the patient being transported in order to ensure the safety of the patient

Operation of equipment is performed in a safe and smooth manner so that the patient is not disturbed

Use of personal protective equipment is utilized as instructed

Equipment is maintained in proper working condition

Repairs are reported to the supervisor and the equipment is tagged and removed from service.

Assignments are completed quickly and accurately without having to be prompted

Maintains confidentiality of patient and hospital information. As patients are transported from one area to another, patient information is keep form public view

10.

Must be able to work with all age groups from infant to the elderly. Must have good communication skills

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Complies with having an Annual TB Skin test performed

12.

Completes BLS training and maintains certification as required

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Attends Customer Service Training and In Services as required

Minimum Education, Experience, Training, and Licensures/Certifications/Registrations Required

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BLS required

Working Conditions

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Exposed to low levels of noise.

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May be exposed to blood and body fluids.

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Requires wearing gloves and body protection as needed.

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Requires standing and walking more than 75% of the time

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Requires sitting less than 35% of the time.

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Requires carrying up to 25 lbs. more than 35% but less than 75% of the time.

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Requires lifting and pulling objects (i.e. patients) weighing up to 200 lbs., with assistance, more than 35% but less than 75% of the time.

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Requires pushing objects weighing up to 200 lbs. more than 75% of the time.

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Requires bending and twisting more than 35% but less than 75% of the time.

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Requires reaching more than 35% but less than 75% of the time.

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Requires fingering and grasping objects more than 35% but less than 75% of the time.

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Requires talking more than 35% but less than 75% of the time.

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Requires hearing and seeing more than 75`% of the time.

IS Requirements

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EPIC

About Baptist Health System KY & IN

Founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Health is a full-spectrum health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves. The Baptist Health family consists of nine hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 400 points of care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices and services, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness centers, and occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics.

Baptist Health’s eight owned hospitals include more than 2,300 licensed beds in Corbin, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Richmond and New Albany, Indiana. Baptist Health also operates the 410-bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky in a joint venture with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana. Baptist Health employs more than 23,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states.

Baptist Health is the first health system in the U.S. to have all of its hospitals recognized by the American Nursing Credentialing Center with either a Magnet® or Pathway to Excellence® designation for nursing excellence.

Baptist Health’s employed provider network, Baptist Health Medical Group, has nearly 1,500 providers, including more than 750 physicians and more than 740 advanced practice clinicians. Baptist Health’s physician network also includes more than 2,000 independent physicians.

Learn more at BaptistHealth.com.

Industry

Healthcare & Social Services

Company Size

5,001-10,000 employees

Headquarters

Louisville, 40223

Year Founded

1924

Website

baptisthealth.com

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