Performance Standard: Mobility

Physical abilities sufficient to move from room to room and maneuver in small spaces.

Examples:

• Assist all patients, according to individual needs and abilities, in moving, turning, and transferring from transportation devices to x-ray tables.
• Be able to push, pull and lift 50 pounds.
• Push a stretcher and/or wheelchair without injury to self, patient, or others.
• Push a mobile x-ray machine from one location to another, including turning corners, getting on and off an elevator, and manipulating it in a patient's room over carpeting.