Overview

Join our growing IR team at Flagstaff Medical Center!

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The Interventional Technologist functions collaboratively with the radiologist and other staff such as nurses, fellow interventional technologists, and physicians to provide support for interventional and other diagnostic procedures within Medical Imaging. The technologist provides quality care to a wide variety of patients in a safe manner. In addition to the clinical responsibilities within IR, the interventional technologist may be required to support other modalities like CT, X-Ray or surgery as needed. This individual is also responsible for administrative duties such as updating procedure manuals, protocols, quality control testing, and assisting with staff scheduling as needed.

This position's work location is on-site only.

Responsibilities

Direct Patient Care and Clinical Skills
* Works independently as a scrub or circulator maintaining sterile technique to set up room/trays for all procedures.

* Conducts necessary preprocedure preparations, reviews the patient consent, and ensure that all clinical concerns have been addressed prior to procedure.

* Validate and reconcile patient procedure and supply charges on a daily basis.

* Responsible for image acquisition, transfer and archiving of images, trouble shooting clinical and equipment challenges.

* Performs various activities to interventional exams on inpatients and outpatients.

* Explain procedure to patient, answers questions, addresses any concerns.

* Draws up medications for the procedure.

* Able to multitask and handle complex cases.

Quality and Safety
* Practices radiation safety in accordance with regulations.

* Maintains appropriate documentation for patient procedures.

* Able to identify adverse events and use critical thinking to notify medical staff

* Supports management with quality improvement initiatives.

* Comply with HIPAA requirements to maintain patient confidentiality.

Professional Development
* Attend continuing education programs, and conferences to advance skills and knowledge work toward appropriate certifications (VI, ACLS)

* Membership to professional organization related to specialty.

* Assists with maintaining control of the supply inventory to maintain appropriate par levels.

* Maintains licensure.

Compliance/Safety
* Responsible for reporting any safety-related incident in a timely fashion through the Midas/RDE tool; attends all safety-related training programs; performs work in a safe manner; monitors work environment for possible safety issues and ensures others are also performing work in a safe manner.

* Stays current and complies with state and federal regulations/statutes and company policies that impact the employee's area of responsibility.

* If required for the position, ensures all certifications and/or licenses are up-to-date and valid prior to expiration dates.

* Completes all company mandatory modules and required job-specific training in the specified time frame.

Qualifications

Education
Completion of a JRCERT approval formal program in Radiologic Technology or military equivalent- Required

High School Diploma- Required

Certification & Licensures
BLS- Required

Current Arizona Medical Radiologic Technologist (MRT)- Required

Registered Radiology Technologist-ARRT- Required

CVRT- Preferred

ARRT (VI)- Preferred

Experience
General radiology technologist 1 year in IR in hospital setting- Required* (3 years experience - Preferred)

Catherizations/Vascular minimum 2 years- Required*

Three years interventional/cardiac cath experience- Preferred*

General radiology experience with emphasis toward interventional procedures- Preferred*

Experience in hospital Trauma 1 and Trauma 2 environment - Preferred

*Experience not required for candidates hired into department training program.

Healthcare is a rapidly changing environment and technology is integrated into almost all aspects of patient care. Computers and other electronic devices are utilized across the organization and throughout each department. Colleagues must have an understanding of computers, and competence in using computers and basic software programs.