Cardiac Diagnostics Lab Supervisor (Echo)

FLSA Status

Job Role Summary

Essential Functions and Responsibilities

• Performs duties of a working supervisor for an assigned area or shift, as well as carries out the responsibilities of a Technologist/Nurse
• In coordination with appropriate administrators, Manager, Director, and Nursing, makes decisions and is responsible for personnel issues (supervision, discipline, hiring, etc.), and patient concerns/questions regarding clinic and Eskenazi Health
• Responsible for oversite of daily operational issues, including clerical and clinical employees, while coordinating operational flow, policies and procedures
• Develops work schedules for specific shift and work areas; ensures optimal staff levels; demonstrates financial responsibility when scheduling
• Demonstrates a positive leadership role
• Provides adequate and timely communication with staff; instructs new employees in the operation, function, and importance of the Epic system; encourages involvement and participation by the staff in departmental operations
• Alters activities and behaviors to reflect and ensure adequate care appropriate to the age of patients served (i.e. adolescent, geriatric, pediatric, neonatal and adult)
• Meets monthly with staff and maintains documentation of all communications
• Participates in quality improvement and/or quality assurance for the department
• Coordinates training schedules, annual check offs, mock codes
• Functions as clinical resource and/or provider for cardiac stress testing, procedures and/or exams within the area of supervision
• Communicates critical results to ordering physicians

Job Requirements

• Bachelors degree in Nursing from an accredited college/university
• Three years of clinical nursing experience at Staff Nurse II equivalency level in clinical area of expertise
• Current Indiana license as RN
• ACLS and BLS certifications

• Indiana licensure as a Radiologic Technologist, Nuclear Medicine Technologist and/or ARDMS registration
• ARRT registration. including compliance with professional CEU requirements
• Three years of job-related experience required
• Current CPR Certification required

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Knowledge of area standards of practice including specific knowledge of operation of CDL, clerical and clinical functions
• Skill and effectiveness in making difficult decisions and exercising sound judgment
• Knowledge of and compliance with Eskenazi Health's Infection Control and Communicable Disease policies and procedures
• Ability to effectively observe and perceive changing patient conditions, and to report questionable conditions to physicians and nursing personnel
• Knowledge of the HIS, CR and RMS systems and associated programs, i.e. Film Tracking System, EPIC; ability to enter all appropriate patient and departmental data
• Ability to lead, direct and evaluate the assigned technical staff and handle contacts with a high degree of tact, both with patients and in a supervisory context
• Ability to supervise, delegate and coordinate the activities of others
• Ability to communicate clearly and concisely
• Ability to remain calm and work well under pressure
• Ability to multitask and juggle responsibilities
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with superiors, co-workers, subordinate staff and patients
• Ability to formulate, develop and implement new policies as well as maintaining existing policies and procedures in place with hospital and ICAEL guidelines