Description

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Description:

Our Vision

As a mission-driven innovative health organization, we will become the national leader in improving the health of our communities and each person we serve. We will be the most trusted health partner for life.

Schedule: Monday - Friday

On-Call required, rotating among team

About the Job

In this role, the Cardiac Cath Tech will perform a wide variety of specialized technical work in all aspects of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory. Work involves operating a complex range of physiological hemodynamic monitoring and recording equipment. The tech will also operate radiographic equipment

including PACS. The tech will be involved with the diagnosing and treating cardiac and peripheral vascular disease. The Cardiac Tech provides technical support to the patients, physicians and nursing staff. The Cardiac Tech is also involved in the teaching and instructing of other technicians, including professional and non-professional personnel, in all aspects of procedure room techniques. The Cardiac Tech also assists with tasks which support the unit in order to maintain a safe, clean and orderly work environment.

What you'll do

• Function in multiple roles during the day as required.
• ROOM CIRCULATOR - Patient interaction, monitoring vital signs, and setup equipment and operate such as IABP, power injector, temporary pacemaker, biopsy, Rotoblator, thrombolysis procedures (Angiojet), ultrasound, IVUS, ACT, CoOx, peripheral interventions including carotid stenting, and cardiac interventions.
• Properly handle, store, maintain and handoff sterile interventions.
• Properly handle, store, maintain and handoff sterile equipment and supplies.
• SCRUB – Maintain sterile procedure, infection control; observe all fluid patency of catheters, balloons and manifolds, assists according to physician's direction.
• MONITOR - Functions in the control room operating the X-Ray equipment and hemodynamic monitoring equipment, reporting EKG, blood pressure, heart rate, pulse ox changes, recording hemodynamic pressures and pertinent patient and procedural information into the hemodynamic system, assist with X-Ray equipment and transfer images to digital archive.
  Demonstrates knowledge of and calculates valvular areas on the hemodynamic monitoring system.

Here is what you will need

Required:

• Associates Degree
• 1-2 years of previous job-related experience
• Specific Degree(s): RT(R)
• *Scheduled for on-call duties and must respond within 30 minutes of notification*

Preferred:

• Bachelor's Degree
• 3-5 years of previous job-related experience

Licensure/Certifications:

Required:

• CPR (Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation)
• Registered Technologist (ARRT)

Perks & Benefit

• Benefits from Day One (Medical and Dental)
• Competitive Shift Differentials
• Career Development
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Participation in the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program
• 403(b) with Employer Match
• On Site Fitness Center (Gottlieb Memorial Hospital & LUMC)
• Referral Rewards
• Perks Program

Our Promise to You

Joining Loyola Medicine is being a part of an organization that treats the human spirit in our patients and fellow colleagues. We are a part of a community which believes in giving back to those we serve.

• We serve together in the spirit of the Gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities
• We live and breathe our guiding behaviors: we support each other in serving, we communicate openly, honestly, respectfully, and directly, we are fully present, we are all accountable, we trust and assume goodness in intentions, and we are continuous learners

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

Trinity Health is a family of 115,000 colleagues and nearly 26,000 physicians and clinicians across 25 states. Because we serve diverse populations, our colleagues are trained to recognize the cultural beliefs, values, traditions, language preferences, and health practices of the communities that we serve and to apply that knowledge to produce positive health outcomes. We also recognize that each of us has a different way of thinking and perceiving our world and that these differences often lead to innovative solutions.

Our dedication to diversity includes a unified workforce (through training and education, recruitment, retention, and development), commitment and accountability, communication, community partnerships, and supplier diversity.