Travel Interventional Radiology Tech - Days

Lamb Staffing; Monroe (NC); On-site; USD 55,000 - 83,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

No Weekends

13-week travel assignment required

Job summary

Lambstaffing seeks an Interventional Radiology Tech for a travel assignment at a Monroe, NC hospital. You'll support Cath Lab and IR Lab teams with EPIC/Encompass and MERGE workflows, patient prep, and documentation. Candidates must have at least 1 year in Cath Lab, ARRT or RCIS, BLS/ACLS, and prior travel experience (13-week assignment).

Shift 0800 start, no weekends, on-call as needed. Love of vascular procedures, radial access, and teamwork preferred; hospital environment offers clinical

Qualifications

• 1 year Cath Lab Tech experience required.
• Prior travel experience: at least one 13-week assignment.
• Must have BLS and ACLS; ARRT or RCIS certification.

Responsibilities

• Support Cath Lab and IR Lab as assigned.
• Assist with patient prep, sterile technique, and documentation in EPIC/Encompass.
• On-call as required by department.

Skills

EPIC/Encompass experience

MERGE experience

Radial access experience

Tools

EPIC/Encompass

MERGE

Job description

Interventional Radiology Tech

About Facility:

• 600 Hospital Drive, Monroe, North Carolina 28112
• 174 licensed beds
• Not a Trauma Designation
• Not a Teaching Hospital
• Chest pain center: No, but part of Lee Garvey Chest Pain Network
• Stroke Center
• Radius rule: Traveler's permanent address must be 50 miles outside of home unit

Unit Information:

• Beds: 7 bays prep/recovery, 1 Cath Lab, 1 IR Lab
• Experience: At least 1 year of Cath Lab Tech experience
• Prior travel experience required. - at least (1) 13-week assignment required
• Flow of Department: Typically, 2-3 Cath's in am, if Cath's are not scheduled in the afternoon, Cath Lab will be used for Procedural/IR overflow cases

Patient Types/Common Diagnoses:

• Cardiac, Device placement, Vascular needs
• Pacemaker and Defibrillator insertion/manipulation
• Ports, PICCS, Arteriograms, Nephrostomy tubes, UAE (if needed), Hickman
• Heavy Vascular: any lower extremity angiogram, occasional upper/fistulagram, interventional cases, PE, DVT, thrombolytics, venograms, fistula creation
• Cath Lab: right and left heart Cath with intervention, pericardiocentesis, etc. - mostly radial but some femoral

Required License, National Certification, Certs (BLS, ACLS, etc.), or other position specific requirements such as Driver's License and/or Insurance:

• Cath Lab Tech: BLS, ACLS, ARRT or RCIS
• IR Tech: BLS, ARRT-R

Skills required:

Cath Lab Tech:

• EPIC/Encompass experience and MERGE is required - hard stop please decline travelers without this
• Comfortability with scrubbing and recording in the above cases - if there are 1-2 that the traveler is not competent in, please pass along to manager for approval
• Will not be required to circulate - RN will circulate

IR Tech:

• EPIC experience required, arteriograms with intervention

Support within the Department:

• Cath Lab leadership
• Small team (approx. 20 on Staff)
• Nursing Supervisor
• Charge RN
• RNs; RTRs and RCIS trained staff

Technology/Equipment:

• EMR: EPIC/Encompass - required
• MERGE - required
• IV Pump: Alaris
• Med dispensing: Omnicell
• Monitors: Philips
• Unit specific equipment: Merge Hemo; Siemens Xray; Balloon pumps (occasionally will see)
• IR Tech: Siemens equipment

Floating:

• No
• IR Tech: may float to the cath lab room

Orientation (facility and unit):

• NEO (typically 1 day)
• ARL's - assigned and will have 30-45 days to complete
• 2 days departmental

Scheduling:

• No Weekends
• On-call dependent on current department needs
• Holiday Expectations: will be closed on Major Holidays - Thanksgiving, Christmas and NYD
• RTO: Manager approval
• Shift times: Mon-Fri; will start 0800 and will f Active state license in good standing; minimum 1 year of recent experience in the specialty; BLS required for clinical roles; references upon request