Tenet Healthcare - Bartlett, TN
posted 16 days ago
About the position
Saint Francis Hospital Bartlett is a 196-bed hospital dedicated to providing high quality, compassionate care to the community. As a comprehensive medical center, Saint Francis Hospital Bartlett has the expertise to deliver quality care in a variety of specialties including Emergency Services, Inpatient & Outpatient Surgical Services, Med/Surge, Ortho, Critical Care and Women's Services. The Cath Lab Tech PRN Days position involves performing direct and indirect functions in the cardiac cath lab, assisting all physicians and staff with clinical and technical aspects of cardiovascular care, and performing miscellaneous duties as assigned. This role includes scrubbing, monitoring, and circulating in all invasive procedures in the cath lab and IVR, as well as inventory control and functioning on all cardiac alerts and STEMI cases.
Responsibilities
- Assesses physical, psychosocial, and growth and development needs of the patient.
- Completes pre, intra and post procedure assessment, informing nurse/MD of any changes in patient's condition.
- Develops a plan of care for the procedure being performed, individualized to include specific patient problems, needs and scheduled procedure.
- Provides teaching and guidance to patient and/or family as well as staff members.
- Executes x-ray for desired views including abdominal aorta gram, runoff, division, storing and printing images.
- Sets priorities for care of patients based on patient's needs and resources available.
- Identifies and performs appropriately in emergency patient care solutions.
- Knowledge of set up and monitoring of IABP, assists with set-up, insertion and care of temporary and permanent pacemakers.
Requirements
- Graduate of a certificate or degree granting program or post-secondary educational program in health science (includes but not limited to cardiovascular technology, radiologic technology, respiratory therapy, surgical technology or paramedic/EMT).
- BLS certification required.
- ACLS certification within 3 months of hire.
Nice-to-haves
- 1 year experience in Cardiac Cath Lab preferred.
- RCIS certification preferred.
