Job Description
Location: Chicago, IL
Hospital: RUSH University Medical Center
Department: Patient Transport Services
Work Type: Part Time (Total FTE between 0.5 and 0.89)
Shift: Shift 2
Work Schedule: 8 Hr (2:00:00 PM - 11:30:00 PM)
Summary:
Transporting patients and patient-related items throughout the hospital complex. Exemplifies the Rush mission, vision and values and acts in accordance with Rush policies and procedures.
Responsibilities:
• To maintain self in appearance and attitude in a professional manner.
• To function under pressure when interacting with patients, co-workers, etc. under difficult situations without been offended.
• To follow all hospital and departmental policies and procedures.
• Train new Transport Specialists on all aspects of the jobs; e.g. how to use and accept job assignments from Patient Tracking via telephone (refer to Patient Tracking Guidelines), how to record their job assignments, body mechanics, how to properly use various pieces of equipment (i.e. beds, stretchers / wheel- chairs, I-meds, oxygen, etc.), how to transport patients up and down inclines as well as getting on and off the elevators, procedures on the units/departments, monitoring work assignments, etc.
• Assist in evaluating new wheelchairs and stretchers to be purchased to transport patients.
• Transport patients, hospital records, and other materials throughout the institution.
• Physically move patients on and off transport equipment. Assist the patient care units/departments staff with transferring patients to and from beds to HTS wheelchairs/stretchers.
• Check the gauge of the Oxygen Tank (02) to make sure it is full, when transporting patients on oxygen to their exams. Provides back-up assistance for the Doorman to transport outpatients, to and from the Professional Building.
• Escort discharged patients with their belongings to the Credit Office when requested by the units to pick up their personal items from the vault.
• Transport deceased patients on the cadaver cart to the morgue.
• Accompany the undertaker and/or police personnel upon request to the morgue to release deceased patients.
• Per Medical Records, transport deceased patients to the receiving dock (deceased patients are never to be left unattended) to be picked up by the Police personnel.
• Transport the deceased patients to the Viewing Room.
• Respond to Dr. Code pages with crash carts and remain until completed.
• Make up stretchers with clean linen as needed. Strip stretchers of soiled linen and place soiled linen in proper laundry pickup stations.
• Deliver wheelchairs and stretchers to the units/departments when requested.
• Transport blood product requisitions to various areas when the tube station is out of service.
• Transport blood bank pickup slips (when tube station is out of service) from the units, to Blood Center and return blood to patient care nursing unit's staff.
• Transport patient's belongings as directed.
• Deliver wheelchairs/stretchers that are in need of repair and/or cleaning to the storage areas
• HTS wheelchairs/stretchers are not to be left unattended in hallways, on the units, by Elevators, etc.; unattended wheelchairs/stretchers are placed in the designated storage areas, when not used to transport patients
• Alert the Security Department when unusual occurrences are observed.
• Attend meetings when requested.
• Perform related duties assigned.
Other information:
Required Job Qualifications:
• Ability to follow verbal and written instructions.
• Respond to a Dr. Code Blue/Delivering Blood Gases (Main- House, Professional Building, Academic Facility and Johnston R. Bowman, which is about two (2) blocks).
Physical Demands:
• Ability to lift 50 pounds and have excellent patient contact/customer skills.
• Physically able to constantly push stretcher and/or wheelchair patients; on foot majority of the work day.
• Must be able to walk at a fast pace and sometimes run, in a life and death situation, which are as follows:
• Transporting Emergency Room patients via stretchers.
• Transporting patients via stretcher to and from JRB
• Transporting patients via wheelchair/stretcher up and down inclines.
• Using the stairs depending on the emergency request.
• Pushing a large emergency crash cart (approximately 200 lbs.) from the Pharmacy Department to the emergency site.
Rush is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics.
Position Transport Specialist
Location US:IL:Chicago
Req ID 7429
