Job Description

Position Highlights:

• Work/life: You will find support to help you manage your personal life while building a career.
• Employee-centric: Tuition reimbursement, loan forgiveness, comprehensive major medical, dental and vision insurance, paid time off, 401(k), health and wellness offerings, monthly employee events, and more.
• Lifestyle: Sandusky was voted “Best Coastal Small Town in America”. You will have the opportunity to enjoy living and working in this growing area along the beautiful shores of Lake Erie.

About Firelands Health:

Our goal at Firelands Health is to be the best & preferred independent healthcare employer for the Sandusky Bay region.

Firelands Health is the area’s largest and most comprehensive resource for quality medical care. We are “big enough to care for you, and small enough to care about you”. We are locally managed and governed as a not-for-profit healthcare facility, serving the counties of Erie, Ottawa, Sandusky, and Huron, covering a regional service area with over 300,000 residents. Our mission is to provide excellent healthcare, promote community wellness, and improve the lives we serve.

Our Core ACE Values: Attitude: We choose to be positive and inclusive every day. Commitment: We are committed to exceed the expectations of those we serve. Enthusiasm: We will work passionately to make a difference.

What You Will Do:

Performs Cardiac Ultrasound Testing (echocardiography)

- Interacts with and educates patients regarding echocardiography

- Performs scans; using the M-mode, 2-D (color flow), and Doppler according to established protocol

- Informs physicians of observations, as needed

- Completes documentation utilizing echocardiography worksheet

- Collaborates with RN to perform contrast ECHO study when deemed necessary

- Ensures documentation of study

- Utilizes left lateral decubitus position for exam

- Identifies suboptimal images and utilizes strategies to maximize image quality

- Maintains performance level of suboptimal exams below established benchmark

- Ensures timely completion and distribution of dictated and transcribed reports

- Supports accreditation standards and assists in maintaining ICAEL accreditation status

Preparation for Cardiac Stress Testing

- Interacts with and educates patients regarding cardiac stress test

- Reinforces and ensures patient understanding of procedure

- Attaches/disconnects electrodes; prepares set-up of stress testing equipment

- Obtains blood pressure and assists patients during testing.

- Records data on assessment sheet

Performs Holter Monitor Service

- Interacts with and educates patients

- Attaches/disconnects electrodes/monitor

- Programs Holter monitor and ensures functioning

Cardiac Event Monitor

- Applies and disconnects cardiac event monitors.

- Provides patient education related to maintenance of monitor and transmission of cardiac events.

- Manages data in software program and completes report preparation.

Associated Duties

- Assists with quality improvement efforts

- Develops and conducts education programs in areas of expertise for staff and patients.

- Performs EKG and EEG as needed

What You Will Need:

Bachelor’s Degree or a minimum of an Associate’s Degree in Cardiovascular Technology, or a minimum of 3 years’ experience in cardiopulmonary specialty procedures.

Cardiac Echo certification is required within 6 months of hire date.

BLS required.

Strong background in cardiopulmonary anatomy, physiology and pathophysiology.

Ability to identify cardiac arrhythmias and dysrhythmias.

Ability to perform the following cardiopulmonary specialty procedures:

1. Cardiac stress testing preparation
2. 12 lead EKG's
3. Holter monitor application
4. Cardiac event monitor application