Job Description
Position: Cardiovascular Technician
Description:
Decypher is seeking a Cardiovascular Technician to support Walter Reed National Army Medical Center.
Key Responsibilities: - Perform duties as scrub assistant, operator of imaging equipment, circulator during procedures.
- Conduct patient assessment including chief complaint, history, medications, past medical history.
- Obtain lab work (lab tests, EKG, chest x-ray).
- Provide patient teaching, initiate intravenous access, and obtain vital signs.
- Utilize aseptic/sterile technique, prepare sites and drapes for procedures.
- Administer procedural sedation and monitor appropriately, including reversal agents when necessary.
- Prepare and administer procedural pharmacotherapy.
- Perform point-of-care testing and operator/user quality assurance testing.
- Provide post-recovery patient monitoring, assessment, and documentation.
- Provide emergency procedure services including ACLS, resuscitation meds, and maintain emergency equipment.
- Operate physiological monitoring equipment and interpret data (rhythms, ischemia, infarction, pressure waveforms).
- Set up and calibrate pressure transducer, interpret pressure waveforms.
- Operate radiologic equipment (image intensifier, x-ray, C-arm, digital subtraction angiography, fluoroscopy).
- Manage digital archiving stations, review images, and assure quality control.
- Setup for venous and arterial procedures, select and use catheters, balloons, stents, etc.
- Identify coronary anatomy, interpret various angiographic views, estimate lesion sizes.
- Operate contrast pressure injectors; differentiate types of contrast media, recognize/treat reactions.
- Setup/use intravascular/cardiac ultrasound, fractional flow reserve.
- Use foreign body retrieval devices, intra-aortic balloon pump, coil embolization, pacemakers.
- Initiate hemostasis via various techniques and devices.
- Prepare and clean procedure rooms, restock, and manage equipment inventory.
- Assist patient transportation (including IABPs and air evacuation).
- Orient new staff and students.
- Serve on the \"On-call team\" for urgent and elective procedures (including 24/7 STEMI and IR coverage).
- Complete regular checklists for unit readiness, supplies, inventory, and emergency preparedness.
- Maintain unit cleanliness, manage lead aprons and dosimeter tracking.
- Additional duties as assigned.
Requirements: Education: - High school diploma or equivalent required.
- Associate, baccalaureate, or master’s degree from an accredited school of cardiovascular and interventional training in a US state or territory.
- Education verification required prior to employment.
Certifications: - Registered Cardiovascular Invasive Specialist (RCIS), active and valid.
- Basic Life Support (BLS) certification.
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) certification.
- Proof of certification required before start and at renewal.
Experience: - Minimum 5 years of post-graduation catheterization laboratory experience.
- Proficiency with diagnostic/interventional devices (sheaths, guidewires, catheters, stents, etc.).
- Proficient in left/right heart catheterizations, ventriculograms, angioplasty, PCI, stent placement, intravascular ultrasound, FFR, valve measurements, percutaneous procedures.
- Ability to learn new procedures as assigned (drain placements, angiograms/angioplasty, nephrostomy, port placement/removal, paracentesis, thoracentesis, venaseal, biopsy).
- Licensure: Active RCIS certification required.
- No board certification required.
- Must read, write, understand, and speak English clearly.
Benefits: Benefits: - Career advancement and skill development opportunities.
- Work as part of a professional, respected, and mission-focused team.
- Equal opportunity/affirmative action employer (M/F/D/V); diverse workforce.
- Participate in unit training and competency program.
- Make a difference in patient care and support national medical objectives.
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