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Patient Transporter?

Anyone here work as a Patient Transporter in the hospital before (the ones that push patients from room to room) ? if so, give (ANY) info you guys have about it please, thanks!! 1. $$ 2. Job duties 3. How hard is it, fun? enjoyable? etc etc. SERIOUS ANSWERS only! thanks

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1. In our hospital they make about 10-12 bucks an hour. It can be very hard backbreaking work. You don't just push a bed. Transporting an ICU patient can include the bed, O2 cylinder, two or more poles with any number of IV pumps, a ventilator, even a balloon pump. You must do all that with minimum amount of help (usually the RN and RT). WITHOUT pulling out anything. Then you must move the patient to the CT bed - or MRI bed- or wherever you are going, then reverse the process to get them back to the unit. Sometimes it's easy - one pt. in a wheel chair. The work is varied and interesting. You would learn a lot. It is backbreaking though - not all patients are 120 pounds. (Think pushing a extra large bed with a 400 pound pt. in it - not common but not unheard of). If you generally like people - and you can stand body fluids - it's not a bad start in the medical world.