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jogirl17

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Hi!
I just got a job offer for a hospital transport company..this will be my first EMT job. I was wondering what is a hospital transport company like compared to working for the county, or normal transport companies? What should I expect to see and do?
 
Hospital owned EMS service (911 and and transfer) or a pt transfer service?
 
They said it was a patient transport , the hospital also has a Nightingale service too...so I think its pt transfer, I need to talk to them again
 
A patient transporter is someone who moves patients within the hospital, pushing beds from one area of the hospital to another.
As opposed to a transfer company, taking patients from hospital to hospital by ambulance.
 
If its pt transport, that isn't an EMS job. You're just pushing beds and wheelchairs from one area of the hospital to another.
 
Chewy20 said:
Think its safe to say you are doing the same thing for a "transport company", and that it is also not EMS.
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You can still gain plenty of knowledge and experience working on an ALS IFT truck. Sure, most of it won't be too "emergent", but at least it is medical.
 
Underoath87 said:
You can still gain plenty of knowledge and experience working on an ALS IFT truck. Sure, most of it won't be too "emergent", but at least it is medical.
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When I worked transport, it was like 911 work. 90% BS, 10% real patients. I can say, doing ALS transport between the local ERs and the trauma center, Burn center, cardiac and stroke centers, and Peds ER, I had more sicker, or critical patients working transport than I had on 911.
 
The most sick.

Actually some of the transfers we pull out of our local Level IV are some of the supremely sickliest patients I've had. Super sick people walk through their doors and leave on our cot in a near death state...
 
I am continuously amazed at how profoundly sick patients are when I'm called to transport them from the little community hospital to the University hospital. (Honestly, I'm frankly amazed that they survive the community hospital's hamfisted treatments.)
 
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