Stress Test Tech Clinic Lead: St Luke's with Travel

Department:

05520 AMG ASLMC: ACS - Imaging Services

Status:

Full time

Benefits Eligible:

Yes

Hours Per Week:

40

Schedule Details/Additional Information:

Normal clinic hours, first shift, Monday-Friday. No call, no weekends, no holidays.

Major Responsibilities:

• Acts as a resource to employees, which includes training/orienting, providing day-to-day work direction, and giving input on performance. Assigns, monitors, and reviews progress and accuracy of work, monitors productivity, maintains appropriate staffing levels, directs efforts and provides guidance on more complex issues.
• Assists with human resource responsibilities, which may include interviewing and selection of new employees, staff development, providing performance feedback, resolution of employee concerns, and employee morale.
• Assists in interpreting department policies and procedures, and advises and updates staff on procedural changes. Identifies performance improvement opportunities within the department and facilitates change.
• Performs appropriate skin preparation and lead placement for all tests and adheres to nuclear medicine safety measures during stress testing identifies contraindications/appropriateness of ordered stress test, maintains active communication with physicians to identify and accommodate specific preferences in testing procedures and protocols; starts IV's, prepares, and administers agents intravenously under physician direction (as required based on assigned facility) and assists the physicians in medical emergencies.
• Ensures documentation is accurate and contains all necessary data elements when entering the patient information in the computer systems and equipment, obtains routine measurements, prepares information for physician interpretation, ensures electronic medical record storage when appropriate, and performs patient assessment (e.g. blood pressures) and observation prior to and during procedures/tests.
• Screens patient calls, interviews patients and follows critical test values, documents information and notifies appropriate sources, records and instructs patients on cardiac event monitoring and sets up calls for follow-up with the physician.
• Recognizes routine wave forms, artifact and serious changes in patient rhythms, including segment elevation/depression, infarct patterns and life threatening arrhythmias. Communicates with medical staff when critical test values arise.
• Assists with processing medical information, editing, billing, filing, and copying and acts as a resource to provide pertinent clinical information to other staff and physicians utilizing the electronic medical record ensuring patient safety and HIPAA guidelines are adhered to. Provides basic education on cardiac testing and ensures appropriate follow up with medical staff as needed.
• Ensures the integrity of the systems and recognizes mechanical or technical abnormalities. Performs calibration and troubleshooting procedures on equipment and communicates problems to information services or clinical engineering. Cleans and stocks equipment and supplies. Maintains crash cart and other medications and supplies.
• Performs various patient positioning and transporting duties, which require lifting and pushing/pulling, while utilizing proper technique.
• Must be able to demonstrate knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of the patients served. Must demonstrate knowledge of the principles of growth and development over the life span and possess the ability to assess data reflective of the patient's status and interpret the appropriate information needed to identify each patient's requirements relative to his/her age-specific needs, and to provide the care needed as described in the department's policies and procedures. Age-specific information is developed further in the departmental job standards.

Licensure, Registration, and/or Certification Required:

• Basic Life Support (BLS) for Healthcare Providers certification issued by the American Heart Association (AHA) needs to be obtained within 6 months unless department leader has determined it is not required.

Education Required:

• High School Graduate.

Experience Required:

• Typically requires 3 years of experience in