Summary
Job Description:
Job Title: Radiologic Technologist – Cath Lab
FULL TIME - 1ST SHIFT
The Cath lab is a procedure area that performs minimally invasive cardiac diagnostic and interventional procedures: Cath, PCI for STEMI, cardioversion, tilt table testing, and transesophageal echocardiography. A highly skilled, multidisciplinary team is available 24/7 to meet the needs of the community as a chest pain accredited facility for ACS (acute coronary syndrome or acute MI). Patients are scheduled for outpatient procedures as well as urgent and emergent. The cath lab is staffed with registered nurses and radiology technologists.
Job Description:
Provides health care services using medical imaging techniques to assist in diagnosis and treatment. Performs care requiring substantial specialized knowledge, judgment and skill. Exercises professional judgment in performance of services and maintains demeanor complementary to medical ethics. Provides appropriate patient care and recognizes patient conditions essential for successful completion of the procedure.
- Accepts patients and assesses their condition to determine proper handling and special requirements.
- Explain and prepare the patient for all cardiac catheterization procedures.
- Interviews patients and reviews available clinical data from charts to alert nurses and/or physicians to possible contradictions for procedure.
- Responsible for performing all related exams within the cardiac catheterization laboratory.
- Operates highly complex radiographic equipment within the cardiac catheterization department, selecting technical factors to insure high-quality radiographs, digital imaging using the A.L.A.R.A. (as low as reasonably achievable) standards.
- Performs various clerical duties including, but not limited to:
- Verification of patient identification using 2 identifiers, exams performed, and able to perform “Time Out” with appropriate personnel.
- Corroborates patient’s clinical history with procedure, assuring information if documented and available.
- Ensures the correct billing of patient charges for equipment and procedures.
- Demonstrate proficiency in the ability to capture the correct documentation to include procedure, supplies, room times, etc. in Sensis.
- Checks stock inventory and initiates order deficiencies to stock personnel or management.
Requirements:
- Certification (or eligible) by the American Registry of Radiologic Technologist in Radiography
- State Radiation Operator Certification
- Graduate of a Committee of Allied Health Education and Accreditation (CAHEA) program or equivalent
- BLS and ACLS certification within six months of hire
Work Experience
Education
If you would like to be part of a growing family focused on supporting clinical excellence, teamwork and innovation, we urge you to apply now! Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.
What We Do
Founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Health is a full-spectrum health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves. The Baptist Health family consists of nine hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 400 points of care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices and services, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness centers, and occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics. Baptist Health’s eight owned hospitals include more than 2,300 licensed beds in Corbin, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Richmond and New Albany, Indiana. Baptist Health also operates the 410-bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky in a joint venture with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana. Baptist Health employs more than 23,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states. Baptist Health is the first health system in the U.S. to have all of its hospitals recognized by the American Nursing Credentialing Center with either a Magnet® or Pathway to Excellence® designation for nursing excellence. Baptist Health’s employed provider network, Baptist Health Medical Group, has nearly 1,500 providers, including more than 750 physicians and more than 740 advanced practice clinicians. Baptist Health’s physician network also includes more than 2,000 independent physicians. Learn more at BaptistHealth.com.
