Job Location: Washington D.C. area (Inova)
Employment Type: Full-Time
Job Summary: The ECMO Specialist in Training is a precursor to the ECMO Specialist I. The ECMO Specialist in Training will develop the basic entry-level knowledge to become an ECMO Specialist I through a systematic educational experience consisting of didactic training, wet labs, and precepted bedside hours.
Job Responsibilities:
- Skills and Knowledge:
- Excellent communication skills are necessary to work with all hospital employees, physicians, patients, family members, and community professionals.
- Has completed IH onboarding and preliminary credentialing.
- Training :
- Develop skills and knowledge related to extracorporeal life support through the completion of ECLS education modules, wet labs, and hands-on circuit training.
- Introduction to multiple ECLS systems including: Cardiohelp, CentriMag, Spectrum, & Rotaflow.
- Bedside precepted hours with tenured ECMO Specialists.
- Demonstrate competency during training and assessments with all ECLS equipment and ancillary tools.
- New Specialists will demonstrate safe and conscientious practices with a preceptor and complete basic ECLS competency prior to solo staffing.
- ECLS knowledge assessments will be performed to aid recognition of individual strengths and weaknesses to foster personalized education & training.
- Competencies :
- Mastery of the following competencies required:
- Complete competencies on one ECLS pump system prior to the first solo deployment.
- Complete competencies in Cardiohelp and at least one variety of a component system pump within the first 3 months of employment.
- Demonstrate a complete circuit check and verbalize the significance of the findings and potential concerns.
- Activate and set appropriate alarms on any pump to which theyve been oriented.
- Properly identify alarms and respond appropriately.
- Interpret ABGs and make appropriate sweep changes based on standard sweep calculation as directed.
- Make appropriate adjustments to blood flow as directed and anticipate the changes in pressure and flow variables being monitored.
- Recognize changes in venous, pre-oxygenator, post-oxygenator, and delta pressures and verbalize the significance, possible concerns or complications, and potential causes.
- Verbalize two situations when it is appropriate to hand crank.
- Demonstrate how to use a hand crank properly or switch to a backup pump (Centrimag) on any piece of equipment to which theyve been oriented.
- Recognize venous air and respond appropriately.
- Demonstrate safe removal of arterial air.
- Recognize two types of oxygenator failure and make appropriate recommendations.
- Demonstrate the ability to zero transducers and flush pigtails as needed.
- Demonstrate how to change a cracked pigtail and/or stopcock safely and efficiently.
- Demonstrate how to make temperature changes on any heater/cooler system.
- Documentation :
- Responsibly use UKG and Concur apps/websites to log hours worked location and work-related expenses. Efficiently employ technology to independently schedule flights, hotels, car rentals, etc.
- Communication :
- Integration Health has a robust administrative team promoting an expanding business model pursuant to multiple avenues of patient support opportunities. An ECMO Specialist in Training will communicate professionally and in a timely manner with an administrative team that includes Scheduling & Logistics, Credentialing, as well as Leadership personnel.
Promote IH culture and professional standards in a positive manner.
Minimum Requirements:
- Bachelors degree desirable in nursing, respiratory care, or perfusion technology from an accredited training program. Associate degree with 2-3 years of related Critical Care &/or ECLS experience will be considered in lieu of a Bachelors degree.
- Maintain unencumbered professional licenses (RN, RRT, CCP). Additional individual state licenses may be necessary.
- Maintain AHA credentials in BLS
- Thorough understanding of anatomy, physiology
- Excellent communication skills are necessary to work with all hospital employees, physicians, co-workers, and community professionals.
Must possess exceptional interpersonal skills, including the ability to quickly develop relationships with existing and potential customers.
Physical Requirements:
- Must be able to effectively communicate and perform in stressful situations.
- Must be able to stand, walk, see, hear, read, speak, and write for prolonged periods without accommodations.
- Must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
Must be able to move or reposition patients of any weight or size with assistance.
Compensation and Benefits:
- During the ECMO training period, the starting base pay for the position will be $42,500 per year, paid at an exempt, salary basis.
- Integration Health is proud to offer 100% employer-paid health, vision, and dental insurance for full-time employees. IH covers 70% of the health, vision, and dental insurance costs for full-time employees' dependents. Eligible dependents may be added to the employee's benefits selections, with 30% of the premium costs deducted from the employee's payroll.
- Full-time employees are covered under the IH term life, accidental death and dismemberment, and short and long-term disability plans. IH pays premiums on behalf of the employee.
- Full-Time employees are eligible to participate in our Simple IRA, with the company matching up to 3%.
- Integration Health benefits do not require a waiting period, so benefits are effective the first of the month following benefits enrollment.
- Paid Time Off (PTO) is offered to Full-Time employees.
