Cath Lab Tech - Baptist Health Shelby Hospital

Position Summary

Baptist Health Shelby Hospital is looking for dynamic Cath Lab Techs to join our team! The Cath Lab Tech performs diagnostic imaging and related procedures to demonstrate anatomy for interpretation and/or intervention for cardiovascular procedures.

With benefits that begin day 1, we look forward to the opportunity to support you at any stage of life, including:

• Student loan repayment
• Tuition reimbursement
• Family care support, including backup elder care, backup child care, and pet care
• And more! Learn about the benefits we offer here

Baptist Health is a not-for-profit, faith-based 1,700-bed health system with five hospitals, multiple outpatient centers and physician offices — including Alabama’s largest primary care network with 70 primary care clinics located across four counties. A team of approximately 2,600 employed and affiliated physicians and more than 7,000 team members are dedicated to providing quality and compassionate care for the communities they serve.

Baptist Health is now part of Orlando Health, bringing in a new day in healthcare! Orlando Health is a private, not-for-profit healthcare organization that has been passionate about delivering expert care to diverse communities for over a century. With physicians in more than 100 specialties, award-winning hospitals, stand-alone emergency departments, urgent care locations and more, the healthcare system attracts patients from across the state, region and nation.

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Responsibilities

Responsibilities Include, But Not Limited To:

• Works under the supervision of a preceptor and/ or charge person while in their orientation period.
• 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.
• Ensuresthat 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 for completeness and accuracy of the patient involved in studies. Archives and amends demographic information to appropriate storage media.
• Positions patient, equipment, associated devices, and manipulatestechnical factorsto achieve high quality imagesfor 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.
• Ensures case turnover time to be within established department standards by maintaining proper workflow and prioritizing optimize patient care.
• Maintains high standards of patient care, documentation, and professionalism.
• 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.

Qualifications

Education/Training• High school diploma or GED• Two (2) Years Cardiac Cath Lab Cardiac Experience

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

Experience• Two (2) years of Cardiac Cath Lab experience