Currently I am working at the Patient Transport Department at Saint Francis Hospital, a large Catholic health care center in Hartford, Connecticut. My job was to discharge and admit patients by wheel chair.
I started my first shift on December 2019. I was supposed to be on the volunteer roster in that spring. Unfortunately, after first time I found its website and mailed my application form to the volunteer service, they said that the enrollment was closed two days before I mailed my form and I have to wait until August to apply again. Since then this event was put on the top of my calendar.
In the first three weeks, my job was to get extremely familiar with the layout of the hospital and to learn how to transport the patients. Three buildings joined with each other plus seven essential spots of elevator, it confused me all the time. During the first month, I always reached at the hospital an hour earlier before my regular shifts started. I did nothing but wondering around like a fool with a map of the entire hospital. Often times I ended up looking for the guidance from the other colleagues, or I could not find my way out of this gigantic maze.
For learning how to transport the patients, I was assigned to be a shadow of one of the colleagues, my teachers. By following and watching them closely, I need to learn how to control the wheelchair, confirm the room number with the front desk, and most important, meet with my patients and bring them a safe, comfortable, and warm service.
Main Hallway
Side Hallway
Emergency Hallway
"The job of medical professions is beyond cool science;
it is the application of science in the context of warm humanity."
