Nurse Aide (Transport Escort)

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Job Detail

  • Job ID 9122
  • Offered Salary  1000
  • Experience  Less Than 1 Year
  • Industry  Management
  • Qualifications  Medical

Job Description

About NYC Health + Hospitals

NYC Health + Hospitals/Metropolitan is the community hospital of choice for residents of East Harlem, northern Manhattan, and neighboring communities. The hospital provides culturally-sensitive care in a welcoming and hospitable setting, emphasizing primary care medicine and utilizing the latest advances in medical science. Metropolitan delivers high quality health services with compassion, dignity, and respect to all, without exception. Since its founding in 1875, the hospital has been affiliated with New York Medical College, representing the oldest partnership between a hospital and a private medical school in the United States. Metropolitan is a part of the NYC Health + Hospitals, the largest municipal hospital and health care system in the country.

At NYC Health + Hospitals, our mission is to deliver high quality care health services, without exception. Every employee takes a person-centered approach that exemplifies the ICARE values (Integrity, Compassion, Accountability, Respect, and Excellence) through empathic communication and partnerships between all persons.

Job Description

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Report to lhe Patient Escort office at lhe beginning of the assigned tour.
2. Receive assignments from ltle tour dispatche designee.
3. Introduce self to patient, check identification band, explain nature of the trip, escort the patient to and from the nursing
service untl the receiving department assumes responsibility for the patient.
4. Transport the patient by wheelchair, stretcher, crib, bed and escort ambulalory patients including those with intravenous apparatus
to and from various nursing, x-ray, scheduled therapies, clinics, discharges and religious centers within the hospital.
5. Return medical equipment/apparatus used during transportatlon of patient.
6. Transport bodies, fetuses and amputated parts placing them In the morgue tray as necessary.
7. Petform duties of the NATE admitting office, when necessary.
8. Accompany the discharged patient from the units to discharge/property office and to pharmacy for medication, then to their appropriate mode of transportation.
9. Accompany all patients over the age of four years old.
10. Should not leave the assigned post at the end of their tour unless relieved or authorized
11. Maintain Activity Log sheet wilh all requests received wih the following.
a)Time Dispatched
bJ MR#
c)From Unit
d)To Unit
E)Patient wearing ID Band
F)2 Patient Identifiers
G)Receiving Unit
H)Receieved by
I)Time Received

Minimum Qualifications

Elementary school graduation or equivalent ability to effectively communicate with patients; Ability to keep simple clinical records.

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