hospital porter
Hospital porters are professional healthcare assistants who transport people on stretchers around the hospital site, as well as and items.
Also called: general porter, hospital stretcher carrier, stretcher carrier, hospital stretcher bearer, hospital portering service provider, hospital portering staff member, stretcher bearer, general hospital porter
- 39
- essential skills
- 7
- optional skills
- 8
- related roles
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- ISCO-08 group
Where you can go from here
8 rolesOccupations sharing the most essential skills with this one. The number is a count, not an opinion.
- paramedic in emergency responsesWhat changes?37 skills in common
- emergency ambulance driverWhat changes?15 skills in common
- nurse responsible for general careWhat changes?14 skills in common
- orthoptist14 skills in common
- physiotherapist14 skills in common
- speech and language therapist14 skills in common
- audiologist13 skills in common
- biomedical scientist13 skills in common
Essential skills
39- accept own accountability
- adapt to emergency care environment
- adhere to organisational guidelines
- apply context specific clinical competences
- apply good clinical practices
- assess nature of injury in emergency
- clinical science
- communicate in healthcare
- comply with legislation related to health care
- comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice
- conduct physical examination in emergency
- deal with emergency care situations
- disorders of vital functions
- emergency cases
- employ specific paramedic techniques in out-of-hospital care
- ensure safety of healthcare users
- first aid
- follow clinical guidelines
- human anatomy
- immobilise patients for emergency intervention
- interact with healthcare users
- listen actively
- manage major incidents
- monitor basic patients signs
- observe confidentiality
- operate an emergency communication system
- operate specialised equipment in emergency
- operational tactics for emergency responses
- position patients undergoing interventions
- principles of paramedic practice
- prioritise emergencies
- provide first aid
- respond to changing situations in health care
- select hazard control
- tolerate stress
- transfer patients
- transfer patients to and from ambulance vehicles
- transportation methods
- use technical equipment for sterilisation
Definition and skills from ESCO, published by the European Commission. Source concept
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