Transporter - EVENING SHIFT - Patient Transport

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.

Patient and Community Focus and Collaborate

Participates in departmental and/or interdepartmental quality improvement activities.Utilizes SBAR hand-off report sheet when transporting patients from unit to unit.Informs nursing staff of the patient leaving the nursing unit and confirms mode of transportation.Obtains the patient’s chart from the nursing units for those procedures where appropriate.Assists the patients into wheelchairs or onto stretchers, utilizing appropriate equipment to meet individual and age specific needs- Child - Transports with assistance, utilizing crib- Adolescent, adult, geriatricAssures the patients are properly dressed in hospital gowns for test and/or procedures prior to leaving the nursing units.Informs nursing personnel immediately of any change in the patient’s condition.Demonstrates use of hospital approved paging system. Makes and delivers special order food trays for patients on the evening shift.Monitors IV pumps to ensure proper operation and informs nursing personnel if not functioning properly.Handles urinary drainage bags properly while transporting patients.Replaces filled oxygen tanks to units as needed.Checks wheelchairs and stretchers for maintenance issues and brings them to the Facilities work room. Cleans transport equipment after each use with hospital-approved environmental cleaner.Assists others with a difficult transport via smooth movers where lifting help is required.Assures that the patient’s side rails are raised on stretchers at all times.Transports patients to Outpatient areas (Borden-Carey, Wound Clinic, IV Therapy, etc.).Delivers reports, supplies, films, specimens, etc. throughout the hospital as requested.

Must be able to use both hand/wrists and perform work with moderate deviation and occasional fine motor skills. Brown University Health is committed to providing equal employment opportunities and maintaining a work environment free from all forms of unlawful discrimination and harassment.

Newport Hospital - 11 Friendship Street Newport, Rhode Island 02840 Work Type:

1:00pm-9:30pm, rotating weekends and holidays Work Shift:

Evening Daily Hours: