ECMO Specialist
- Pensacola, FL
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Department: Adult ECMO
- Schedule: Full Time Day Shift, 3,12-hour shifts 7a.m. to 7p.m.
- Hospital: Ascension Sacred Heart Hospital Pensacola
- Location: Pensacola, FL
Various health insurance options & wellness plans
Retirement benefits including employer match plans
Long-term & short-term disability
Employee assistance programs (EAP)
Parental leave & adoption assistance
Tuition reimbursement
Ways to give back to your communityBenefit options and eligibility vary by position. Compensation varies based on factors including, but not limited to, experience, skills, education, performance and salary range at the time of the offer.ResponsibilitiesOperate extra-corporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) equipment and performs ECMO therapy according to physician orders.
- Monitor pump functioning throughout patient therapy and maintains pump integrity.
- Monitor circuit volume and administers products, medications and/or volumes as ordered.
- Monitor anticoagulation, electrolyte, acid-base balance and blood-gas composition values and adjusts ECMO circuit to maintain physician's orders.
- Generate and compile appropriate documentation and charges related to ECMO.
- Precept new ECMO team members.
- BLS Provider obtained within 1 Month (30 days) of hire date or job transfer date required. American Heart Association or American Red Cross accepted.
- One or more of the following required:
- Registered Nurse credentialed from the Florida Board of Nursing obtained prior to hire date or job transfer date.
- Respiratory Care Practitioner credentialed from the Florida Board of Respiratory Care obtained prior to hire date or job transfer date.
- Respiratory Therapist credentialed from the Florida Board of Respiratory Care obtained prior to hire date or job transfer date.
- High School diploma equivalency with 2 years of cumulative experience OR Associate's