Electrophysiology Techs - Orlando Health
Orlando Health · United States
Position Summary
Orlando Health is hiring EP Techs across the system! The Electrophysiology Technologist performs diagnostic imaging and related procedures to demonstrate anatomy for interpretation and/or intervention for cardiovascular procedures. Apply today and let us personally match you with the position that matches your goals, values, and needs.
With over 10 hospitals to choose from between the west and east coast of Florida and a variety of schedules to fit your needs, allow us to personally match you to the location and team that best aligns with your experience, values, and goals. We also have a multiple institutes and practices for any interest or speciality you may be interested in. 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
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. Learn more about Orlando Health.
Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities
- Works under the supervision of a preceptor and/or charge personnel.
- Delivers appropriate patient care and demonstrates competency while assessing patient conditions, age specific needs while ensuring successful completion of procedures and protocols.
- Ensure the patient’s understanding of procedure performed, provides patient and family education while ensuring the patient’s needs, safety and comfort are met while in the EP Lab.
- Demonstrates knowledge and use of Bloom stimulator and physician EP protocols.
- Acquires patient’s clinical history and assures that the information is accurately documented. Verifies report and records for completeness and accuracy of the patient involved in the study. Archives and amends demographic information to appropriate storage media.
- Positions patient, equipment, associated devices and manipulates technical factors to achieve high quality images and signals for interpretation.
- Assesses processed images for technical quality and patient identification, ensuring that all relative anatomy is demonstrated.
- Applies principals of radiation safety and protection to minimize exposure to the patient, self, and others.
- Provides physiological and hemodynamic monitoring during diagnostic and interventional procedures.
- Supports the physician as a scrub assistant for Electrophysiology Studies, Ablations, and Cardiac Implant procedures.
- Demonstrates knowledge of aseptic and sterile technique.
- Documents patient care as related to a procedural area in a knowledgeable, skillful, and consistent manner meeting all required and regulatory standards. Communicates any changes as necessary. This includes but not limited to: patient assessment, education, medication administration, treatments and patient safety.
- Demonstrates competency to evaluate and obtain hemostasis of a vessel post procedure.
- Maintains use of customer service skills in communication with all staff, visitors, patients, and co-workers.
- Performs all duties as necessary to assure patient satisfaction.
- Ensures case turnover time to be within established department standards by maintaining proper workflow and prioritizing patient care.
- 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
- Electrophysiology Tech I demonstrates awareness of department process improvement activities, legal issues, patients rights and compliance with the standards of regulatory and accrediting agencies.
- Demonstrates good judgment and decision making skills as required or will solicit preceptor or supervisory input.
- Practices efficient use of supplies and maintains a clean, safe, well stocked, and organized work area.
- Attends a minimum of two staff development in-services, as well as department meetings, and assumes the responsibility for professional development and continuing education to achieve and/or maintain licensure and/or certification.
- Participates in the process to ensure that all OSHA, JCAHO, FDA regulations are adhered to within the department.
- Performs all other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
Education/Training
A graduate of an accredited school of:
• Radiological Technology (RT), or
• Cardiovascular Technology (CVT).
Licensure/Certification
Maintain current BLS certification.
The following licensure or certification is required depending on the corresponding education above:
• CVT – None required
• RT-- Valid Florida state license renewed every two years required. Valid American registry of Radiologic Technologists (ARRT) certification. Renewed yearly.
Experience
The Electrophysiology Tech I is the entry level position for technical personnel in the EP Lab.
Key Responsibilities
- Works under the supervision of a preceptor and/or charge personnel.
- Delivers appropriate patient care and demonstrates competency while assessing patient conditions, age specific needs while ensuring successful completion of procedures and protocols.
- Ensure the patient’s understanding of procedure performed, provides patient and family education while ensuring the patient’s needs, safety and comfort are met while in the EP Lab.
- Demonstrates knowledge and use of Bloom stimulator and physician EP protocols.
- Acquires patient’s clinical history and assures that the information is accurately documented. Verifies report and records for completeness and accuracy of the patient involved in the study. Archives and amends demographic information to appropriate storage media.
- Positions patient, equipment, associated devices and manipulates technical factors to achieve high quality images and signals for interpretation.
- Assesses processed images for technical quality and patient identification, ensuring that all relative anatomy is demonstrated.
- Applies principals of radiation safety and protection to minimize exposure to the patient, self, and others.
- Provides physiological and hemodynamic monitoring during diagnostic and interventional procedures.
- Supports the physician as a scrub assistant for Electrophysiology Studies, Ablations, and Cardiac Implant procedures.
- Demonstrates knowledge of aseptic and sterile technique.
- Documents patient care as related to a procedural area in a knowledgeable, skillful, and consistent manner meeting all required and regulatory standards. Communicates any changes as necessary. This includes but not limited to: patient assessment, education, medication administration, treatments and patient safety.
- Demonstrates competency to evaluate and obtain hemostasis of a vessel post procedure.
- Maintains use of customer service skills in communication with all staff, visitors, patients, and co-workers.
- Performs all duties as necessary to assure patient satisfaction.
- Ensures case turnover time to be within established department standards by maintaining proper workflow and prioritizing patient care.
- 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
- Electrophysiology Tech I demonstrates awareness of department process improvement activities, legal issues, patients rights and compliance with the standards of regulatory and accrediting agencies.
- Demonstrates good judgment and decision making skills as required or will solicit preceptor or supervisory input.
- Practices efficient use of supplies and maintains a clean, safe, well stocked, and organized work area.
- Attends a minimum of two staff development in-services, as well as department meetings, and assumes the responsibility for professional development and continuing education to achieve and/or maintain licensure and/or certification.
- Participates in the process to ensure that all OSHA, JCAHO, FDA regulations are adhered to within the department.
- Performs all other duties as assigned.
Education/Training
A graduate of an accredited school of:
• Radiological Technology (RT), or
• Cardiovascular Technology (CVT).
Licensure/Certification
Maintain current BLS certification.
The following licensure or certification is required depending on the corresponding education above:
• CVT – None required
• RT-- Valid Florida state license renewed every two years required. Valid American registry of Radiologic Technologists (ARRT) certification. Renewed yearly.
Experience
The Electrophysiology Tech I is the entry level position for technical personnel in the EP Lab.
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