Purpose of Job
- Cardiology technician assists Cardiologists scheduling appointments, reviewing patient files, monitoring testing and assists in diagnosis of cardio and/or vascular diseases.
Job Requirements
- Education
  - High School Diploma or General Educational Development (G.E.D.) required.
  - Participates in mandatory in-services and continuing education programs as mandated by policies and procedures, external agencies, or as directed by supervisor or manager.
- Experience
  - Previous experience with electrocardiogram (EKG) and cardiac stress testing required.
- License/Certifications
  - Current American Heart Association Basic Life Support (BLS) strongly preferred at time of hire, required within 3 months of hire.
- Skills/Knowledge/Abilities
  - Requires the ability to read, write, speak and understand the English language well enough to communicate at a level normally acquired through a high school education.
  - Requires the ability to recognize cardiac arrhythmia's normally acquired through on the job training and/or courses in EKG interpretation.
Physical Requirements
- Weight Demands
  - Medium Work - Exerting up to 50 pounds of force.
- Physical Activity
  - Occasionally Performed (1%-33%):
    - Climbing
    - Crawling
    - Kneeling
    - Sitting
  - Frequently Performed (34%-66%):
    - Balancing
    - Carrying
    - Crouching
    - Distinguish colors
    - Keyboarding/typing
    - Lifting
    - Pulling/Pushing
    - Repetitive Motions
    - Standing
    - Stooping/bending
    - Twisting
    - Walking
  - Constantly Performed (67%-100%):
    - Fingering/Touching
    - Grasping
    - Hearing
    - Reaching
    - Seeing/Visual
    - Speaking/talking
- Job Hazards
  - Not Related:
    - Explosives (pressurized gas)
    - Electrical Shock/Static
    - Radiation Alpha, Beta and Gamma (particles such as X-ray, Cat Scan, Gamma Knife, etc)
    - Radiation Non-Ionizing (Ultraviolet, visible light, infrared and microwaves that causes injuries to tissue or thermal or photochemical means)
  - Rare (1-33%):
    - Chemical agents (Toxic, Corrosive, Flammable, Latex)
    - Mechanical moving parts/vibrations
  - Occasionally (34%-66%):
    - Biological agents (primary air born and blood born viruses) (Jobs with Patient contact) (BBF)
    - Physical hazards (noise, temperature, lighting, wet floors, outdoors, sharps) (more than ordinary office environment)
    - Equipment/Machinery/Tools
Essential Job Functions
- Essential Functions I
  - Provides appropriate care specific to the age of the customer/patient, to ensure understanding and comfort level of treatment, as outlined in the Age Specific Criteria.
    - Demonstrates ability to identify opportunities for and give individualized customer service/patient care according to customer/patient needs.
  - Schedule patients for stress tests and assists physician's pr mid-level practitioners with performance of the stress tests (including nuclear stress tests).
    - Receives call from emergency room and coordinates chest pain patients for early morning stress tests.
    - Assists coordination of add-on patients to the Heart Station or Nuclear Department.
    - Communicates add-on patients with the mid-level practitioners or physicians for the procedure.
  - Prepares patient for a stress test.
    - Checks patient wristband for two identifiers (full name, medical history number, and/or date of birth).
    - Educate patient regarding lead placement, how to walk on a treadmill, what to expect from the increased heart rate, and the importance of exciting off the treadmill quickly for the echo sonographer.
    - Prior to the stress test, obtain accurate patient history, have appropriate indications for the procedure and obtain BP's for physicians or mid-level practitioners.
    - Monitor patients' heart rate after stress test to ensure it is within a normal range.
    - Log each patient in to Cerner and charge for the procedure.
  - Work professionally with all members of the cardiac team.
    - Works well with Emergency Room, Nuclear, Echo staff and Registered Nurses when coordinating stress echos.
  - Collaborates in the maintenance of proper inventory.
    - Works with Bio-med for all first respond maintenance for EKG carts or treadmill needs.
    - Shares the responsibility of ordering supplies for the department.
  - Demonstrates ability to access environment of care policies on computer.
    - Can speak to code red. How to rescue patients and evacuate the department.
    - Can speak to code triage. What is responsibility with a code triage?
    - Is knowledgeable of the hazardous materials in the area and can identify the chemical diamond.
    - Demonstrates competency in accessing all hospital policies.
  - Competent in putting on and taking off Holter Monitors and Event Monitors.
    - Knows who makes the appointment for the Holter Monitor or Event Monitors.
    - Give instructions to the patient for the Holter Monitor and Event Monitors.
    - Appropriately charges for putting on and taking off the monitors.
- Essential Functions II
  - Participates in mandatory in-services and/or CE programs as mandated by policies and procedures/external agencies and as directed by management.
  - Follows and understands the mission, vision, core values, Employee Standards of Behavior and company policies/procedures.
  - Other duties as assigned.