What are the responsibilities and job description for the TRANSPORTATION ASST PRN position at Moffitt Cancer Center Careers?
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Summary
Position Highlights:
The transportation assistant will provide quality customer service and transport patients throughout the Cancer Center in a safe, timely, and efficient manner.
The Ideal Candidate:
- Will have experience in patient transport or other patient care role.
- Has working knowledge of lifting techniques with the physical ability necessary for frequent lifting and pushing of light to heavy objects and periods of long standing and walking.
Responsibilities:
- Transports patients in a safe manner and seek assistance when needed or required utilizing appropriate body mechanics at all times.
- Transports deceased patients to the morgue.
- Transports specimens from clinics to the lab department
- Informs nurse when taking patient off unit/returning patient to the unit. Informs nursing staff of all pertinent information and observed changes in patient's condition during or after transport.
- Responds to code blues and RRTs in the outpatient/inpatient areas and provides patient transport as needed.
- Assists in the discharge of the patients from the inpatient/outpatient units by escorting patients via wheelchair to the exit area and assisting the patient into the vehicle as needed.
- Manages inventory of equipment throughout the hospital; assuring equipment is stored in designated areas during the shift.
- Assists with the maintenance of equipment and deliver equipment needing repair to the appropriate department as requested.
- Follows infection control policies related but not limited to standard and isolation precautions.
- Thoroughly cleans wheelchairs and stretchers between patients with a disinfectant spray and setup linen.
- Communicates in a professional manner to medical staff, patients, families and coworkers.
Credentials and Qualifications:
- High school diploma or equivalent required.
- Current BLS required.