Special Procedures Tech Cardiac Cath Lab
Employment Bonus Eligible for Qualified Candidates
Competitive Wages and Benefits
Baptist Health Louisville is hiring Special Procedure Technologists to work in our Cardiac Cath Lab. The Cath Labhas six rooms all staffed by nurses and special procedures radiologic technologists.
The Special Procedures Technologist operates all radiographic equipment in Cath Lab at a technical level under the direction of a cardiologist, performs scrub assist role during invasive procedure, records information, and evaluates patient’s response to procedures.
Various procedures completed in the interventional lab include balloon angioplasty, coronary stenting, chronic total occlusions, mechanical pulmonary thrombectomy, PFO and ASD closures, MitraClip, TAVR, and the advance practice of radial catheterizations (95%). The EP lab specializes in device implants, catheter ablation, pulmonary vein ablation, and additional EP procedures.
The cath lab is supported by a team of pre and post procedures nurses to facilitate prep, recovery, and throughput.
A year of experience in Cath Lab, emergency department, critical care or open-heart recovery is desired; however, we will train new grad technologists.
Flexible scheduling for shifts that consist of 8 or 10 hours
Interventional: call 7 shifts per month, every fourth weekend with competitive call rate
EP: no call, no weekends, no holidays, rotating late shifts
Requirements:
Graduate of an accredited Radiology program with an active Kentucky license.
Active KBMIRT and ARRT certification required.
1 Year of experience in special procedures preferred.
BCLS certification required within 90 days of hire
ACLS certification required within 6 months of hire
Advanced certification preferred. (RCIS or RTRCI)
Work Experience
Education
Founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Health is a full-spectrum health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves. The Baptist Health family consists of nine hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 400 points of care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices and services, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness centers, and occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics.
Baptist Health’s eight owned hospitals include more than 2,300 licensed beds in Corbin, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Richmond and New Albany, Indiana. Baptist Health also operates the 410-bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky in a joint venture with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana. Baptist Health employs more than 23,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states.
Baptist Health is the first health system in the U.S. to have all of its hospitals recognized by the American Nursing Credentialing Center with either a Magnet® or Pathway to Excellence® designation for nursing excellence.
Baptist Health’s employed provider network, Baptist Health Medical Group, has nearly 1,500 providers, including more than 750 physicians and more than 740 advanced practice clinicians. Baptist Health’s physician network also includes more than 2,000 independent physicians.
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