Cardiac Diagnostics Lab Supervisor (Echo)
Eskenazi Health

Division:Eskenazi Health

Sub-Division: Hospital

Req ID: 25103

Schedule: Full Time

Shift: Days

Eskenazi Health serves as the public hospital division of the Health & Hospital Corporation of Marion County. Physicians provide a comprehensive range of primary and specialty care services at the 333-bed hospital and outpatient facilities both on and off of the Eskenazi Health downtown campus including at a network of Eskenazi Health Center sites located throughout Indianapolis.

FLSA Status

Non-Exempt

Job Role Summary

The Cardiac Diagnostics Lab (CDL) Supervisor oversees and manages cardiac diagnostics staff, including clerical and clinical employees. This position also, 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.

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

OR

• 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

Accredited by The Joint Commission and named as one of Indiana's best employers by Forbes magazine for two consecutive years and the top hospital in the state for community benefit by the Lown Institute, Eskenazi Health's programs have received national recognition while also offering new health care opportunities to the local community. As the sponsoring hospital for Indianapolis Emergency Medical Services, the city's primary EMS provider, Eskenazi Health is also home to the first adult Level I trauma center in Indiana, the only verified adult burn center in Indiana and Sandra Eskenazi Mental Health Center, the first community mental health center in Indiana, just to name a few.

Nearest Major Market: Indianapolis

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