Sergio Fraides
Menifee
Summary
Dedicated Lift Technician at Scripps Health San Diego, skilled in patient safety and mobility assistance. Enhanced transport efficiency through effective teamwork and streamlined inventory management. Proficient in medical documentation and infection control, ensuring high standards of care. Trained new staff in best practices, fostering a collaborative environment for optimal patient outcomes.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
Work History
Lift Technician
Scripps Health San Diego
09.2003 - 07.2020
- Transported patients to testing and treatment units, operating rooms and other areas using moveable beds, wheelchairs, and stretchers.
- Maintained cleanliness of transport equipment to minimize infection risk for patients and staff.
- Ensured patient safety by properly positioning patients on stretchers, wheelchairs, and other transport equipment.
- Maintained strong professional relationships with colleagues across various departments, promoting teamwork for efficient patient care delivery.
- Collaborated with CNAs, nurses, and physicians to maintain stability during transport and facilitate event-free transport.
- Assisted with lifting and handling patients using appropriate patient safety equipment such as lift swings, stand-up lifts and overhead lifts.
- Improved efficiency in transporting patients by quickly navigating through the hospital''s various departments and floors.
- Completed detailed patient transport logs, ensuring accurate documentation for hospital records.
- Streamlined inventory management for transport equipment, ensuring availability and maintenance.
- Training new transport staff, sharing best practices and safety guidelines.
- Body Mechanic training.
- Maintained strict hygiene standards in transport equipment, contributing to infection control.
- Lifted or assisted others to lift patients to move them on or off beds, surgical tables or stretchers.
- Helped other staff with patient transfers by moving patients between departments.
- Kept patient information and records secure by using private hospital databases and withholding information from outside sources.
Education
No Degree - Mathematics
Mount San Jacinto College
Menifee, CA03-2016
GED -
San Diego City College
San Diego, CA03-2007
Skills
- Patient communication
- Patient safety
- Professionalism and ethics
- Transportation procedures
- Patient escorting
- Infection control
- Mobility assistance
- Equipment disinfection
- Medical documentation
- Equipment transportation
- Staff coordination
- Scheduling coordination
- Medical terminology
- Wheelchair assistance
- Wheelchair transport
- Mortuary collaboration
- Visitor assistance
- Patient-transport equipment
- Emergency response
- Heavy lifting
- Medical supply stocking
- Emergency protocols
- Sterilizing equipment use
- Medical equipment setup MRI,CT
- Teamwork
- Basic life support
- Teletracking and Epic system
Languages
Spanish
Native or Bilingual
Timeline
Lift Technician
Scripps Health San Diego
09.2003 - 07.2020
No Degree - Mathematics
Mount San Jacinto College
GED -
San Diego City College
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