Suggestion: Porter / Healthcare Assistant role

[stflyer7]

Something that could come under Hospital Services as an additional feature (doesnt seem like its there already) is porters. Not sure what the correct reference would be internationally but in Ireland and the UK they are responsible for transporting Patients and also transporting Tests / Results / Samples.

Having a centralised porter's department / role under the admin department would leave nurses free to care for patients and more importantly remove the bottleneck of having the transport of patients limited to the nurses in the receiving department.

For example there can be 10 free nurses in Internal Medicine but everyone is busy in ICU. If the patient needs transport to ICU they need to wait for an ICU nurse to become free and get them. That isn't realistic or efficient.

[Dr VDS Imperator]

I totally agree ! It wouldn't be cumpulsory so that maybe in small hospitals nurses couldt still perform it, but it would be a real advantage in big hospitals with multiples departements ! Il really like the way we can have anaesthetists being available for all surgeries, and porters should work the same, belonging to an administrative departement and wating for any patient needing to be transported to an exam or an other departement !

[jasonycin]

Technically, you can do this just by assigning them that specific role already. But it would be awesome if the devs could expand upon this so that if there's no need in their own department they can assist somewhere else as a second priority (like the new anesthesiologist in the ICU.)

[Adam]

Originally posted by steo101:

Something that could come under Hospital Services as an additional feature (doesnt seem like its there already) is porters. Not sure what the correct reference would be internationally but in Ireland and the UK they are responsible for transporting Patients and also transporting Tests / Results / Samples.

Having a centralised porter's department / role under the admin department would leave nurses free to care for patients and more importantly remove the bottleneck of having the transport of patients limited to the nurses in the receiving department.

For example there can be 10 free nurses in Internal Medicine but everyone is busy in ICU. If the patient needs transport to ICU they need to wait for an ICU nurse to become free and get them. That isn't realistic or efficient.

Totally agree! Would be a game changer! especially with the departments they're adding now like pathology, admin services etc. Fingers crossed this is something that they will see and implement!

[srotideuk]

Everything but drug administration is the UK version, think the US call them Orderlies?

[Esidara]

I would like to have a porter/orderly department for conveying patients, and to take samples to the med labs so my med lab staff aren't doing it.

[EndlessSauron]

This should be possible now since they have added the Administration department, which will allow janitors to work in the gift shop, I see no reason they or a modder can't add the job to janitors that tell them their only job is patient transport, and maybe lab collection/transport?

[jasonycin]

Originally posted by Endless:

This should be possible now since they have added the Administration department, which will allow janitors to work in the gift shop, I see no reason they or a modder can't add the job to janitors that tell them their only job is patient transport, and maybe lab collection/transport?

If only I knew how to code -_-. Oh, the possibilities!

[MWRGaming]

you could also add hospitalized test transport to the porters if possible instead of having to traverse the whole hospital collecting one test have a push-able cart transport tests and when the cart is empty they return like a stretcher