Position Summary

INVASIVE SPECIALIST (TECHNOLOGIST) III - UNCERTIFIED

Baptist Health Brookwood Hospital

Baptist Health Brookwood Hospital is a 595-bed comprehensive healthcare facility known for providing a wide range of medical services and specialized care to the Homewood community and beyond. Our dedicated team of physicians, nurses, clinicians and medical professionals are committed to delivering quality and compassionate care.

Heart and Vascular Care

Baptist Health Brookwood Hospital provides a full scope of heart and vascular care, including cardiac imaging, cardiothoracic and vascular surgery, electrophysiology, heart failure program, interventional cardiology, and structural heart and valve services.

Position SummaryPerforms diagnostic imaging and related procedures to demonstrate anatomy for interpretation and/or intervention for cardiovascular procedures.

SHIFT: Must be open to working call

Responsibilities

Essential Functions• Serves as a role model for the department of Cardiology and supports its strategies.• Communicates and collaborates with medical staff and interdisciplinary team to effectively plan and manage the department.• Delivers appropriate care while recognizing patient conditions and ensuring successful completion of procedures and protocols. Assesses the patient’s physical condition and age specific needs.• Ensures that patient's education of procedure performed, needs, safety, and comfort are met while in their care.• Acquires patient’s clinical history and assures that the information is accurately documented. Verifies files and records forcompleteness and accuracy of the patient involved in studies. Archives and amends demographic information to appropriate storage media.• Positions patient, equipment, associated devices and manipulates technical factors to achieve high quality images for interpretation.• Assesses processed image media for technical quality, and patient identification, ensuring that all relative anatomy is demonstrated.• When applicable, applies principals of radiation protection to minimize exposure to patient, self and others.• Provides physiological and hemodynamic monitoring during diagnostic and interventional procedures.• Supports the Physician as a scrub assistant for cardiovascular procedures.• Demonstrates the knowledge of aseptic technique.• Appraises and evaluates actual and potential hemostasis of a vessel post procedure.• Locates, uses and troubleshoots complex technical equipment/instruments. Acts as a resource for its operation and training• Maintains use of customer service skills in communication with all staff, visitors and co-workers.• Maintains adequate inventory levels of supplies, equipment, resources tools and forms.• Maintains high standards of patient care, documentation, and professionalism. Understands application and technical aspects of all equipment and supplies used in all procedures.• Ensures case turnover time to be within established department standards by maintaining proper workflow and prioritizing optimize patient care• Must perform at least two of the following: Department preceptor (attend basic preceptor course), charge, actively participates in quality initiative and performance improvement initiative, measures by outcomes and shared governance • Must be able to demonstrate competencies in all the department’s current technologies in at least 2 modalities (IR, Cath, Vascular Procedures, EP, or Structural Heart. • Must be a superuser on at least two of the department’s clinical systems. Maintains reasonably regular, punctual attendance consistent with Orlando Health policies, the ADA, FMLA and other federal, state and local standards.• Maintains compliance with all Orlando Health policies and procedures.Other Related Functions• Demonstrates awareness of legal issues, patients’ rights and compliance with the standards of regulatory and accrediting agencies.• Accountable for maintaining down time productivity.• Notifies BioMed and/or equipment company as appropriate to resolve the problem and report the incident to the supervisor.• Demonstrates good judgment and decision-making skills as required or will solicit supervisory input.• Utilizes all department computer systems effectively and accurately.• Assists in developing and implementing essential policy and procedures.• Maintains a working knowledge of all-procedural changes and equipment updates.• Maintains cleanliness of work area and equipment. Maintains well stocked and organized work areas.• Works evenings, weekends, holidays and call as scheduled.

Qualifications

Education/Training• High School Diploma or GED

Licensure/Certification• Maintain current BLS and ACLS certification. PALS may be required depending on unit specific needs.• Must obtain RCES certification in 24 Months of hire

Experience• Ten (10) Years Cardiac Scrub Experience.