Patient Transporter jobs in Amarillo, TX

Overview

Join our team as a weekend shift, full-time, Patient Transport Services Lead in Amarillo, TX.

Fulfilling your purpose begins here: 

People First, Always. Here’s how we take care of our people: 

• Medical, vision, dental health insurance, health savings account / flexible spending, competitive pay, paid time off, 401k retirement plan with company match, employee assistance program and more. 

Your team is bigger than your department: 

• BSA Hospital is a 445-bed hospital serving the Amarillo area for over 120 years and continues to be Amarillo’s preferred healthcare provider. At BSA, the focus is to provide quality healthcare in Christian love, service and dignity.
• We believe healthcare is a team sport and every player has something to contribute. We show compassion, celebrate differences and treat one another with respect. 

Responsibilities

• Demonstrates effective communication skills, appropriate to a professional atmosphere
• Uses IPOD And Epic systems efficiently
• Demonstrates the use of transporting a patient with oxygen from the wall unit to portable
• Maintains protocol for the use of oxygen by doctor’s orders
• Demonstrates safe handling of oxygen tank
• Demonstrates proper height & placement of in-dwelling tubes and/or equipment attached to patients (including, but not limited to, cranial drains, Foley bags, IV’s etc.)
• Communicates the patient’s location to staff through proper documentation
• Signs patients in and out of the unit
• Is sensitive to patient safety by visually observing patient and listening to patient during transport
• Confirm patient identification by variety of methods
• Assist patients using proper body mechanics with various modes of transport
• Ensures patient and transporter safety by assessing the situation
• Correctly assist patients with telemetry equipment and monitors, following proper departmental procedures
• Is able to unhook and hook patients to telemetry and monitors
• Communicates with telemetry department by phone
• Follows proper MRI policy and procedures when transporting patients to MRI department
• Completes proper documentation (ticket to ride) and has nurse to complete proper documentation (ticket to ride)
• Ensures that MRI patients do not have IV or telemetry before leaving the unit to transport to MRI
• Properly operates the patient beds, wheelchairs and stretchers
• Able to safely transport and move patients from bed, stretcher or wheelchair to bed, stretcher or wheelchair
• Aids and assists hospital staff with patient safety during procedures, images and transport as needed
• Responsible for supervision of daily operation of the transport team
• Assist in training and scheduling training for new team member
• Responsible for answering department cell phone
• Responsible for assigning lunches to staff
• Responsible for adding, canceling, or updating transport jobs in EPIC

Qualifications

• Maintain CPR-basic life support certification, upon hire or within the first 3 months from DOH, renews as required
• Safe Patient Handling within 5 months from DOH, renews yearly
• High school or GED-Required 

• Some college  Preferred.

• Epic knowledge Preferred.