Cardiac And Echo Technician at Avenue Healthcare

Job Objective/Purpose

Provide safe and high-quality Cardiac and Echo services in line with the hospital policies and procedures.

Key Responsibilities

• Performs cardiac and echo procedures. 
• Considering the age-specific physiological, emotional and cognitive needs of the patient. 
• Perform pre-procedure assessment reviewing patient history and physical examination. 
• Formulate a nursing care plan to address patient care goals and ensure an excellent outcome. 
• Act as the team lead during cardiac and echo procedures 
• Prepare procedure room for the patient. 
• Perform a pre-procedure safety checklist to ensure patient safety. 
• Document patient care activities and outcomes as per policies and procedures. 
• Ensure continuity of patient care during the post procedure phase with an effective handover. 
• Develop promotions and publicity for the cardiac and echo services in collaboration with the marketing department. 
• Uses equipment and departmental resources appropriately. 
• Assists central scheduling with the accurate scheduling of patient appointments. 
• Covers on-call schedule as assigned following departmental procedures. 
• Maintains equipment, including cleaning and disinfecting according to departmental IPC procedures and processes. 
• Identify problems with equipment and notifies appropriate resources for diagnosis and repair and assist with evaluation of new equipment. 
• Ensure financial objectives of the cardiac and echo Service are met by; a. Managing costs within budget. 
  • b. Timely and accurate billing. 
  • c. Ensuring an invoice rejection rate of less than 1 percent by enforcing exclusions, guaranteeing the necessary pre-authorizations and proper documentation and following through with the credit control team. 
• Patient satisfaction and confidentiality: a. Ensure patient satisfaction through quality of care, communication and collection of feedback from patients as determined in the KPI using the standardized patient satisfaction tools. 
  • Always maintain client/patient privacy and confidentiality 
• Provide monthly reports to the line manager and senior hospital management on the performance of the cardiac & echo Services. 

Personal Specifications

• Diploma in Nursing, Clinical Medicine or equivalent medical training
• Certificate in Echocardiography
• Up-to-date BLS, ACLS, ATLS Certificate
• At least 2 years’ experience in Cardiac Echo and other Diagnostic
• Good Interpersonal and communication skills
• Customer focus