Cardiovascular Technician

Description

Decypher is seeking Cardiovascular Technician candidates to support the Augusta Military Medical Center, at Fort Belvoir, Virginia.

About Decypher

Decypher is a leading integrator of professional, technology, and management solutions and services. We provide our services globally to Federal, Commercial, Local and State clients.

Our employees are our most valuable asset and play an integral role in the success of Decypher and our clients. Working at Decypher is not a job, but a career where your talent and energy is respected, and you can personally make a difference. Decypher invites you to join our professional team. Decypher is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer committed to diversifying its workforce (M/F/D/V).

Responsibilities

The primary operating hours are Monday-Friday 0700-1600.

Cardiovascular Technician On-Call Beeper Hours: Cardiovascular unit provides on-call services 365 days a year, 24 hours a day.

Contract employees are required to cover rotating calls as a member of the call team. Call periods range from 1 to 24 hours per day, weekdays, weekends, and holidays (Saturday and Sunday and Federal Holidays). When called back the contract employee is required to be onsite and ready for duty within 30 minutes from the initial time called back.

Cardiovascular Technician On-Call/Call-Back Hours: Extra hours are anticipated, due to the nature of healthcare for cardiovascular patients and requirements to provide coverage for patient care services.

Situations will arise during performance of duties that may require a contract employee to stay on site to complete tasks. If, during duty hours the Cardiovascular Technician is required to remain past the normal duty day to facilitate patient care, the hours will be billed as on-call. If, during outside duty hours, the Cardiovascular Technician is required to return to the MTF to facilitate patient care, the hours will be billed as call-back.

Required Experience and Skills

Perform duties as scrub assistant, operator of imaging equipment, circulator during the procedure.

Perform patient assessment, to include chief complaint, history of present illness and current medication, past medical history.

Obtain lab work, EKG, chest x-ray.

Provide patient teaching, initiate intravenous access, and obtain vital signs.

appropriately utilize aseptic/sterile technique and perform site prep with antiseptic solution and access site-draping.

Administer procedural sedation giving the appropriate medication, dose, route, and time. This task includes appropriate documentation, monitoring, and administration/use of reversal agents.

Appropriately prepare and administer adjunctive procedural pharmacotherapy.

Function and operate radiologic equipment to include image intensifier, x-ray tube, C-arm manipulation, panning table, positioning patient, digital subtraction angiography and fluoroscopic imaging in various magnification modes.

Set-up for venous and arterial procedures, use balloon tipped/flow directional catheters to include blood sampling, cardiac output, catheter selections for vessels and anatomic variables, indications risks and precautions for cardiac procedures performed.

Desired Education and Experience

Cardiovascular technicians shall possess a high school diploma or equivalent.

?All Cardiovascular Tech shall possess a current, active, valid, Registered Cardiovascular Invasive Specialist (RCIS) certification.

a minimum of 5 years catheterization laboratory work experience obtained after graduating from an accredited school of cardiovascular and interventional training.

All Cardiovascular Technicians shall possess a current, active, valid, Registered Cardiovascular Invasive Specialist (RCIS) certification