hospital porter (EN)
ISCO 5329 · v1.2.1
Hospital porters are professional healthcare assistants who transport people on stretchers around the hospital site, as well as and items.
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Source aliases (EN)
- general porter
- hospital stretcher carrier
- stretcher carrier
- hospital stretcher bearer
- hospital portering service provider
- hospital portering staff member
- stretcher bearer
- general hospital porter
- hospital portering
- porter
Skills and knowledge
Essential (EN) · 39
- operate specialised equipment in emergency
- respond to changing situations in health care
- provide first aid
- adapt to emergency care environment
- select hazard control
- operational tactics for emergency responses
- deal with emergency care situations
- transfer patients to and from ambulance vehicles
- disorders of vital functions
- communicate in healthcare
- transportation methods
- follow clinical guidelines
- manage major incidents
- use technical equipment for sterilisation
- conduct physical examination in emergency
- observe confidentiality
- transfer patients
- comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice
- immobilise patients for emergency intervention
- human anatomy
- comply with legislation related to health care
- listen actively
- employ specific paramedic techniques in out-of-hospital care
- adhere to organisational guidelines
- clinical science
- assess nature of injury in emergency
- interact with healthcare users
- ensure safety of healthcare users
- tolerate stress
- monitor basic patients signs
- principles of paramedic practice
- apply context specific clinical competences
- position patients undergoing interventions
- emergency cases
- apply good clinical practices
- operate an emergency communication system
- prioritise emergencies
- first aid
- accept own accountability
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