Patients Medical Center (PMC)
provides inpatient and outpatient medical and surgical services to
residents of Pasadena, Deer Park, La Porte, Baytown, and Clear Lake. The
facility includes 53 medical/surgical beds, eight ICU beds and three endoscopy
rooms, and offers a range of primary and specialized services—wound care,
general surgery, gastroenterology, occupational health, heart and
vascular, women’s services, diagnostic imaging, outpatient rehab services,
and sleep disorders.

POSITION
SUMMARYAccountable for supervision of the room staff's performance, coordination
of the room's schedule, and communicating with the Cath Lab management team to
ensure efficient utilization of resources. also Performs duties of circulating,
scrub, and monitoring of invasive cardiology procedures. Demonstrates an
understanding of all invasive procedures, the equipment and supplies for each
procedure, and indications for performing each procedure. The focus of the
responsibilities below is to assure optimal quality examination and intervention
while maintaining the highest level of patient care and safety.


Qualifications

MINIMUM
QUALIFICATIONS

Education and
Licensure

Required:
Associate's Degree -OR-
Registered as a Radiologic Technologist
Radiography (RTR) , Registered Cardiovascular Invasive Specialist (RCIS), or
Cardiovascular Technologist (CVT)
CPR
certified

Minimum
Experience

Minimum five (5) year clinical experience in a
hospital setting

Minimum Knowledge, Skills, and
Abilities

Documented expertise & successful completion
of specialty training areas & skills checklist for at least two of the
following: EP, interventional, scrub assist for AAA procedures or
radiographic/digital imaging technique

POSITION
RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Exhibits strong organization skills such as:
strong interaction and time management skills, independent problem solving and
conflict resolution skills, and fiscal management skills. Ensures departmental
atmosphere is professional and patient oriented to enhance patient care

2. Responsible for managing staff and room
activities to maximize productivity. Coordinates staffing assignments within
room to ensure technical role assignments are responsive to patients’ needs and
reflective of staff member abilities. Makes suggestions for staffing and
procedural changes and collaborates with other departments in the hospital as
needed
3. Works in conjunction with schedule
coordinator, managers, supervisors, and other room leaders to facilitate
departmental productivity. Initiates actions to minimize case delays, reports
schedule information promptly to schedule coordinator and other appropriate
personnel.
4. Operates the radiographic equipment utilizing
radiation safety procedures
5. Operates physiologic recorder/database system
with expertise recognizing arrhythmias and normal/abnormal
waveforms
6.Operates manifold, power injector, and other
support equipment (VCR, ACT machines, oximeters, and transport
monitors)
7.Develops cines when necessary according to
policy
8.Able to recognize basic equipment malfunctions
and troubleshoot equipment in room. Report malfunctions to Biomed promptly if
unable to resolve
9.Exhibits a strong knowledge base of
cardiovascular diseases and is able to interpret date gathered during procedures
and recognize potential implications in patient care or
complications
10. Helps to efficiently run schedule by
maintaining a smooth and steady rate of work by working independently.
Communicate with other room staff and schedule coordinator to maximize the
productivity of the entire department. Perform other duties as assigned to
enhance patient care and efficiency
11. Anticipates physician needs by being
knowledgeable of: 1. procedures performed in the department and 2. equipment
(catheters, guide wires, etc.) necessary for procedures. Sets up sterile trays
and is able to assist physicians during procedures, utilizing septic technique.
Assists in maintaining the appropriate level of medications and supplies stocked
in the room
12. Provide support for EP, interventional and
scrub assist for AAA procedures or radiographic/digital imaging technique as
needed
13. Responsible for training and education of
new employees in the cardiac catheterization lab. Participates in departmental
educational programs by collaborating with staff educators to facilitate
orientation and acclimation of new staff members. Provides educational
opportunities and lectures for all staff
members.

Additional Responsibilities:

• Demonstrates a commitment to service, organization values and
  professionalism through appropriate conduct and demeanor at all times.
  
  • Adheres to and exhibits our core values:
• Reverence: Having a profound spirit of awe and
  respect for all creation, shaping relationships to self, to one another and to
  God and acknowledging that we hold in trust all that has been given to us.
  
• Integrity: Moral wholeness, soundness,
  uprightness, honesty and sincerity as a basis of trustworthiness.
• Compassion: Feeling with others, being one with
  others in their sorrows and joys, rooted in the sense of solidarity as members
  of the human community.
• Excellence: Outstanding achievement, merit,
  virtue; continually surpassing standards to achieve/maintain quality.
  
• Maintains confidentiality and protects sensitive data at all
  times.
• Adheres to organizational and department specific safety
  standards and guidelines. Works collaboratively and supports efforts of team members.
• Demonstrates exceptional customer service and interacts
  effectively with physicians, patients, residents, visitors, staff and the
  broader health care community.

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