Cardiac Cath Lab: Supervisor - Full Time, DAYS

Albany Medical Center; City of Albany (NY); On-site; USD 86,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

Albany Medical Center is seeking a Supervisor for its Adult Cardiac Cath Lab. The role involves overseeing staff, ensuring procedural compliance, and maintaining high standards of patient care. Candidates must have relevant licensure and significant experience in the cardiovascular field.

Qualifications

• Minimum of an associate degree or equivalent.
• Must possess licensure as RN, RT, or LPN.
• At least 4 years of cardiac experience required.

Responsibilities

• Oversees staff hiring and provides orientations.
• Manages scheduling, timecards, and performance reviews.
• Coordinates patient care and procedural safety.

Skills

Communication

Problem-solving

Teamwork

Responsibility

Education

Associate degree or Cardiovascular training program

Registered Nurse or Radiologic Technologist licensure

Job description

Department/Unit:

Adult Cardiac Cath Lab

Work Shift:

Day (United States of America)

Salary Range:

$86,650.99 - $134,309.04 The Supervisor is part of the selection process which reviews, research, attends VAT, works closely with vendor, becomes super user, assists with planning for deployment to staff, learns troubleshooting and assists with evaluations and launches.

The Supervisor interviews all new hires in the CVT, MIT and Structural Heart CVT roles, provides orientation materials and assigns preceptors, grants staff access to security and IT systems, maintains scheduling and timecards, conducts promotional and annual performance reviews, completes corrective actions, management of on call schedules and compliance.

Creation/modification of daily staffing assignments as needed, participates in daily huddle, manages kronos and signing off of timecards, attends bed meeting and other managerial meetings, daily rounding, performs APRs, maintains the hemo systems and acts as superuser, maintains Cath/EP PACS database, primary troubleshooter for all x-ray equipment and hemo system.

Acts as Charge role, CVT and MIT as needed.

Education:

• Minimum of an associate degree or graduate of an approved Cardiovascular training program or graduate from an accredited Allied Health Program. Possession of licensure/certification as a practical or registered nurse, Radiologic Technologist, or cardiovascular technologist and at least 4 years of work experience in a hospital or clinical setting is required.

Licensure, Certification & Registration:

• Must hold current New York State registration or possess a limited permit to practice in the State of New York as an RN,RT, or LPN or possess certification as a Registered Cardiovascular Invasive Specialist (RCIS).
• Current BLS Certification required.
• ACLS and PALS Certification preferred.

Experience:

• Minimum of 4 years in the cardiovascular specialty.
• Expert in normal vs. abnormal anatomy, physiology, radiation safety, interventional supplies, and equipment operation.
• Expert knowledge of the perfusion and hemodynamics of the heart.
• Serves as an expert, and independently performs and interprets all electrocardiograms.
• Serves as an expert for all diagnostic and PCI procedures performed in the department.
• Serves as an expert for the equipment being utilized intra-procedure.

Skills, Knowledge & Abilities:

• Able to communicate effectively at all levels within the organization and with external customers and agencies.
• Demonstrates responsibility and accountability for decisions.
• Identifies problems, gathers data, establishes facts, and draws valid conclusions.
• Ability to improve job performance through continuing education.
• Able to anticipate and prepare for the necessary treatment if adverse events occur intra procedure.
• Able to anticipate and prepare necessary equipment for emergency procedures.
• Provides oversight to Invasive Cardiovascular Technologists levels I, II and III, Medical Imaging Technologists levels I,II,III, and IV, is able to precept new hires.
• Is the primary educator for all roles of the Technologists in the Cardiac Cath and EP lab.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities, including but not limited to:

Mission, Core Values and Service Excellence

• Contributes to the creation of a compassionate and caring environment for patients, families and colleagues through displays of kindness and active listening.
• Recognizes and appreciates that each employee’s work is valuable and contributes to the success of the Mission.
• Demonstrates excellence in daily work.
• Actively participates in performance and quality improvement activities and works toward enhancing customer/patient satisfaction.
• Exhibits positive service excellence skills to patients, visitors and coworkers by greeting others in a friendly manner, keeping customers/patients/colleagues informed about progress, delays and changes.
• Demonstrates effective teamwork by interacting in a positive manner with colleagues and creating a collaborative work environment.
• Initiates open communication, conveys positive intent, offers assistance.
• Contributes to a safe and secure environment for patients, visitors, colleagues by following established procedures and protocols, which address the needs of a diverse patient population and workforce.
• Demonstrates stewardship by thoughtful and responsible use of resources including maintaining a clean and hospitable environment, starting work on time, displaying a consciousness regarding costs, supplies and department finances.
• Demonstrates respect for individual differences of each person by acknowledging the essence of each person, appreciating and responding to unique, spiritual, personal and cultural backgrounds of patients, families and colleagues.

Strategic and Operational Planning

• Provides patient care according to the age and special characteristics of patients in assigned areas. This department serves patients from pediatrics up to geriatrics.
• Reviews the patient’s medical records and lab results to ensure procedural safety requirements are met.
• Provides information to patients and families related to the details and process of the procedure. Prepares the procedural site via clipping/hair removal and application of antimicrobial agents. Prepares the environment of care through set up of a sterile field.
• Actively participates in Time Out and Universal Protocol procedures.
• Ensures the availability and proper function of emergency equipment and resuscitation devices. Demonstrates the skills of procedural scrubbing, donning, and doffing gown and gloves, and maintenance of the sterile field.
• Demonstrates safe passage of instruments and supplies to and from the Interventional Cardiologist during the procedure Independently manipulates catheters and/or wires through the cardiovascular space under radiologic visualization at the direction of the Interventional Cardiologist.
• Independently removes arterial and venous catheters and sheaths, at the direction of the Interventional Cardiologist Independently applies procedure site dressings and/or manual pressure for hemostasis management utilizing clean and sterile techniques at the direction of the Interventional Cardiologist.
• Cleans and prepares instruments for terminal sterilization.
• Assists in the cleaning and preparation of procedural rooms and equipment between procedures, restocking supplies when necessary.
• Monitors fluoroscopy exposures during the procedure Analyzes heart rhythm and pressure waveforms, reporting significant changes in patient condition to the team.
• Independently performs 12 lead EKG, including download.
• Retrieves radiologic images captured during the procedure.
• Documents all care provided in the patient’s medical record.

Quality Improvement

• Supports a system that encourages the identification and analysis of errors and near misses in the context of a safety culture.
• Is aware of and compliant with all hospital and regulatory agency safety goals and objectives as well as limitations of certification.
• Works collaboratively with the patient care team to identify process improvement opportunities to ensure efficient use of resources.
• Demonstrates accountability for self-development and evidence-based knowledge in the specialty. Participates in unit-based committees and shared governance, collaborating to meet established objectives.
• Participates and takes the lead on the development, monitoring, and reporting of one quality initiative per year.

Educational Leadership

• Develops CVT,MIT/Scrub role comprehensive training program for new hires with/without experience and RN’s that wish to learn to scrub, monitor, or circulate.
• Will create training materials for staff education and posting.
• Will work closely with cardiovascular technicians III’s and MIT IV’s in training of all employees.
• Will participate on the education committee to help with educating other staff in the department about Cardiac Cath procedures.

Hospital-wide Leadership

• Works with management team to develop and employ at least one cost savings initiative per year.
• Is involved in at least one hospital wide committee and brings information obtained back to the team for dissemination.

Patient Safety

• Maintains patient confidentiality in accordance with HIPAA regulations Ensures all documentation is complete for each patient’s chart in accordance with regulatory compliance.
• Incorporates safe patient handling into the positioning and transfer of patients.
• Verifies correct labeling of procedural solutions, medication, and specimens with the RN or other licensed healthcare provider.
• For applicable cases, performs procedural count with an RN circulator, and ensures accuracy in accordance with law, policy, procedure, and regulation.
• Manages alarms for which the Tech is responsible.

Organizational Requirements:

• Maintain strict adherence to the Albany Medical Center Confidentiality policy.
• Incorporate Albany Medical Center Behavioral Standards and Guiding Principles into daily activities.
• Comply with all Albany Medical Center Policies.
• Comply with behavioral expectations of the department.
• Maintain courteous and effective interactions with colleagues.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the job description, performance expectations, and competency assessment.
• Demonstrate a commitment toward meeting and exceeding the needs of our customers and consistently adheres to Customer Service standards.
• Participate in departmental and/or interdepartmental quality improvement activities.
• Participate in and successfully completes Mandatory Education.
• Perform all other duties as needed or directed to meet the needs of the department.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• Assigns job duties to others while performing similar or related tasks. More than 80% of time spent on own tasks.
• Immediate supervision over a small group of assigned employees that perform similar tasks. More than 20% of time is spent assigning, reviewing, or checking staff work.
• Supervises a small group of employees while assigning, checking, and maintaining workflow. Makes recommendations as to employment and evaluation of others.
• Assists other supervisors in an advisory capacity
• Instructs and/or trains other employees. May assign, check, and evaluate performance during training period.
• Supervises large groups in complex tasks, while providing discipline and enforcement of policies/procedures.
• Manages through others with full responsibility for quality of work, financial considerations, and personnel decisions.
• Manages operations via other supervisors or leaders who report to him/her. Full responsibility for all personnel and financial decisions.

Key Relationships:

1. Adult and Pediatric Interventional Cardiologists, Anesthesiologists, Certified Nurse Anesthetists

2. NP/PA team, Fellows

3. Cath/EP Lab NMs

4. Cath/EP Lab team-CVTs,MITs/RNs

5. Cath/EP Lab Outpatient Team-RN’s/PCA’s/PSA’s

Physical Requirements & Environment: Required

• The position requires a high degree of mental and visual concentration.
• Nature of work requires lifting or moving heavy weight (over 75 pounds).
• Flow of work and character of duties require high manual coordination.
• Duties require above average range of motion.
• Performance of duties allows for variation in positioning and tasks.
• Assignments require constant repetitive motion.

Working Conditions

• Working conditions include minimal exposure to elements such as odor, noise, dust, chemicals, temperature extremes or airborne pathogens.

Exposure to Hazardous Materials

• Performance of duties generally does not involve exposure to hazardous materials.

Patient Care Conditions

• Position entails exposure to blood and body fluids, standard precautions must be used.
• Assignments include transporting, transfer and positioning of patients.
• Incumbent must be continuously prepared to prevent a patient fall.

Sensory Requirements

• Performance of duties requires the ability to discern and identify colors
• Performance of duties requires the ability to discern sharp from dull and hot from cold
• Performance of duties requires the ability to hear soft and loud noises

Patient Care/Patient Contact Designation

• Position has a direct impact upon health outcomes of the patient.

Thank you for your interest in Albany Medical Center!

Albany Medical is an equal opportunity employer.

This role may require access to information considered sensitive to Albany Medical Center, its patients, affiliates, and partners, including but not limited to HIPAA Protected Health Information and other information regulated by Federal and New York State statutes. Workforce members are expected to ensure that:

Access to information is based on a “need to know” and is the minimum necessary to properly perform assigned duties. Use or disclosure shall not exceed the minimum amount of information needed to accomplish an intended purpose. Reasonable efforts, consistent with Albany Med Center policies and standards, shall be made to ensure that information is adequately protected from unauthorized access and modification.