Job Specification of a Patient Escort
1. Prepare a job specification concerning the position of a patient escort (1 page max). Place special emphasis in behavioral skill (competencies) needed to perform that job.
The typical procedure is for the nurse to call for a patient escort; the escort gets a wheelchair and goes to the patient’s room, assists the patient into the wheelchair, picks up the patient’s belongings, wheels the patient down the hospital’s front door or to his or her car in the parking lot, and returns to the work station.
Job specification of patient escort:
Knowledge: High school graduate required.
Skills, Experience and Personal qualities:
Minimal training of orderly moving patients required.
Have enough patients to assist the patients.
Good interpersonal and communication skills,
Must be able to push, lift and carry, heavy objects, patients for extended periods. Experience of volunteer is a plus.
2. Job advertising
Patient Escort
Sector: Healthcare
Facility: City Hospital
Location: the heart of Midwestern city
About City Hospital:
City Hospital is one of the five major hospitals in the area and has recently built a small addition for treating well-known patients such as professional football players, top company executives and singing stars.
Job description:
Under the direction of human resource department this position transports patients from their hospital room to the front door of the hospital using beds or wheelchairs. And after the nurse call, the escort gets a wheelchair and goes to the patient’s room, assists the patient into the wheelchair, picks up the patient’s belongings, wheels the patient down the hospital’s front door or to his or her car in the parking lot, and returns to the work station.
Job specification:
EDUCATION: High school diploma or equivalent.
EXPERIENCE: Minimal training of orderly moving patients required.
SKILLS: Good interpersonal and communication skills. Must be able to push, lift and carry, heavy objects,
The typical procedure is for the nurse to call for a patient escort; the escort gets a wheelchair and goes to the patient’s room, assists the patient into the wheelchair, picks up the patient’s belongings, wheels the patient down the hospital’s front door or to his or her car in the parking lot, and returns to the work station.
Job specification of patient escort:
Knowledge: High school graduate required.
Skills, Experience and Personal qualities:
Minimal training of orderly moving patients required.
Have enough patients to assist the patients.
Good interpersonal and communication skills,
Must be able to push, lift and carry, heavy objects, patients for extended periods. Experience of volunteer is a plus.
2. Job advertising
Patient Escort
Sector: Healthcare
Facility: City Hospital
Location: the heart of Midwestern city
About City Hospital:
City Hospital is one of the five major hospitals in the area and has recently built a small addition for treating well-known patients such as professional football players, top company executives and singing stars.
Job description:
Under the direction of human resource department this position transports patients from their hospital room to the front door of the hospital using beds or wheelchairs. And after the nurse call, the escort gets a wheelchair and goes to the patient’s room, assists the patient into the wheelchair, picks up the patient’s belongings, wheels the patient down the hospital’s front door or to his or her car in the parking lot, and returns to the work station.
Job specification:
EDUCATION: High school diploma or equivalent.
EXPERIENCE: Minimal training of orderly moving patients required.
SKILLS: Good interpersonal and communication skills. Must be able to push, lift and carry, heavy objects,