Sentence examples for patient transporter from inspiring English sources
Few people realize that "patient transporter" is a distinct job category.
As administrators in major hospitals around the country know well, a dawdling patient transporter can set off a chain reaction of delays throughout the institution.
Administrators realized that having a patient transporter standing by with a stretcher outfitted with lifesaving equipment, rather than having to order one from the dispatcher, could mean a gain of critical moments.
Employed for 41 years and began as a patient transporter while attending NYU for his Masters Degree in Business Administration.
Of all the cogs in that process (reports! scans! diagnoses! lab results! consults! chains of command! available beds!), one of the most essential and least respected is the patient transporter, whose qualifications typically include a high school diploma, a pleasant disposition and a clean record.
At Long Island College Hospital, some 35 patient transporters work under the command of the logistics department.
Most (83%) of the injury burden was incurred by inpatient nurses, nurses' aides and radiology technicians, while injury rates were highest for nurses' aides (8.8/100 full-time equivalent, FTEs) and smaller workgroups including emergency medical technicians (10.3/100 FTEs), patient transporters (4.3/100 FTEs), operating room technicians (3.1/100 FTEs), and morgue technicians (2.2/100 FTEs).
Peripheral blood natural killer (NK) cells from patients with transporter associated with antigen processing (TAP) deficiency are hyporesponsive.
Our data expand the previous report showing that ABCG2 protein and mRNA were higher in HCC [ 10] and that in hepatoblastoma patients the transporter was up-regulated following chemotherapy [ 13].
In schizophrenia patients glutamate transporters, excitatory amino acid transporters 1 and 2 (Eand1 and EAAT2), were found to be less glycosylated in the prefrontal cortex12 and genes involved in N-glycan biosynthesis showed altered expression13.
