Current Events > Yesterday was my first day as a patient transporter.

(+) Yeah! (+)

Yay.

how was it? you just transport patients to the hospital and their home or something?

solosnake posted...

how was it? you just transport patients to the hospital and their home or something?

Different locations within the hospital. Usually to a testing site to their room or vice versa.

Robot2600 posted...

what is the meaning behind your sig?

pretty sure its from ultros in ff6

Verdekal posted...

testing site

oh god... wasn't a great experience on a blood draw.

they didn't pull from the knuckle, but that fucker hurt when they had to pop the vein to get some blood for a vial.

other than the finding out the pre-diabetes issue. i have high white blood cell (getting scolded on tuesday since i did a poor job taking care of my body).

Robot2600 posted...

1. what do you do for a living?
2. what is the meaning behind your sig?

There isn't much to it. You need to make sure things are documented.

And yeah, my sig is Ultros, one of my favorite characters.

So basically Crazy Taxi, but set in a hospital and youre picking up and dropping passengers off in a wheelchair/gurney?

Agent_Stroud posted...

So basically Crazy Taxi, but set in a hospital and youre picking up and dropping passengers off in a wheelchair/gurney?

I wish.

Do you have to drive far sometimes?
are you driving some kinda shuttle or some other company car?

i do something similar but im a volunteer and only from their rooms to their cars.

Do you have conversations during transport?

I started as a patient transporter at my hospital 16 years ago while I finished school. Did it for a little over a year. Helps you get comfortable with dealing with different types of patients. The job itself was mind numbingly boring though.

Homeless_Waifu posted...

Do you have to drive far sometimes?
are you driving some kinda shuttle or some other company car?

I don't do between hospitals, just different locations in this one.

I do something along those lines too as a volunteer driver for the American Cancer Society, where you can sign up to drive people to/from their cancer treatment visits. I've always wanted to do something like that in my spare time for some reason and I had a good excuse now that I have a CUV instead of a coupe.

I've only been able to do it 3 times though in the last ~4 months because most appointments are during weekday work hours, and my last 2 cancelled. One forgot because she was completely delirious after treatment and somehow arranged another trip back home, and had to focus on that explanation from one of her medical assistants because I was initially a little irritated that I drove 20 miles one way for nothing. The other cancelled the night before

yunalenne10 posted...

Do you have conversations during transport?

Sometimes. Depends on the patient.