Angiography Technologist - CommonSpirit Health

Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center is an 881-bed quaternary care academic medical center that is a joint venture between Baylor College of Medicine and CHI St. Luke’s Health. Located in the Texas Medical Center, the hospital is the home of the Texas Heart® Institute, a cardiovascular research and education institution founded in 1962 by Denton A. Cooley, MD. The hospital was the first facility in Texas and the Southwest designated a Magnet® hospital for Nursing Excellence by the American Nurses Credentialing Center, receiving the award five consecutive times. Baylor St. Luke’s also has three community emergency centers offering adult and pediatric care for the Greater Houston area. 

CHI St. Luke’s Health, now part of CommonSpirit Health formed by the alignment of Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI) and Dignity Health, has been serving our community since 1954. Operating 137 hospitals and more than 1,000 care sites across 21 states, making our services accessible to nearly 1 in 4 U.S. residents. We proudly provide a vast array of services that help us keep our community safe and healthy. 

We offer the following benefits to support you and your family:

• Health/Dental/Vision Insurance
• Free Premium Membership to Care.com with preloaded credits for children and dependent adults
• Care for Caregivers: Resilience Through Adversity is a series of sessions designed to help caregivers build their resilience and advance their mental well-being during these difficult times
• Flexible spending accounts
• Voluntary Protection: Group Accident, Critical Illness, and Identity Theft
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for you and your family
• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Tuition Assistance for career growth and development
• Matching Retirement Programs
• Wellness Programs

Operates diagnostic equipment and performs a variety of technical angiography procedures.  Provides patient orientation, procedure explanation, and pre and post diagnostic care to completion of test. Performs complete diagnostic imaging tests inclusive of positioning patient, and calibration of equipment and documentation of findings.

• Performs angiography exams on patients according to the specific departmental procedure protocols
• Prepares equipment ensuring that equipment is operational, safe and functioning according to diagnostic standards
• Problem-solves equipment failure and imaging quality and contacts service representative or CES regarding equipment problems
• Ensures that daily equipment and room maintenance are performed during/ after each procedure, and that special precautions and measures are performed to ensure infection control standards
• Completes all quality checks and Ensures that equipment logs are maintained
  Completes all clinical supply inventory, ensuring that each diagnostic room is complete with the necessary supplies required to perform the procedure
• Demonstrates competency in PACS process and Performs daily QA process
• Actively Participates with patient testing, performing routine, non-routine, urgent, and emergent patient requests
• Communicates with Patient Transportation, Nursing Units, Physician Offices, and other diagnostic areas to ensure that the patients receive their diagnostic procedures in a smooth, efficient and safe manner
• Ensures that patient orientation, patient preparation and patient teaching is provided prior, during and following the test completion
• Reviews the physician order to verify the type of diagnostic test requested and that the indication for the procedure is consistent
• Provides specific diagnostic test information to the patient ensuring that the patient is aware of the diagnostic test involvement
• Obtains patient history according to specific departmental procedural protocol
• Positions the patient for the examination according to specific departmental protocol
• Selects the specific equipment pre-sets and modifies the settings to ensure that optimal image is obtained
• Assumes responsibility for the safety, emotional and physical comfort of patients while they are in the technologists care
• Adheres to hospital guidelines on maintaining sterile fields   
• Responsible for monitoring and recording radiation dose levels  
• Performs required image post processing
• When needed, scrubs in to assist Radiologists in performance of sterile procedures during the interventional test/treatment. Anticipates Radiologist's needs during the procedure by preparing catheters, coils, guides, etc. in anticipation of their use.

Minimum Requirements

• Associate’s Degree preferred
• Registered by the American Registry of Radiologic Technologists (ARRT) (R); must maintain current
• Certified by the State of Texas - MRT
• (CPR)/BLS
• BSLMC requires employee to receive ARRT (VI) or AART (CV) within 2 year of employment