ECMO Coordinator

Position: — ECMO Coordinator
# ECMO Coordinator

Requisition :
183130

Department:
200332 ECMO Program

Shift:
Day Category:
Professionals### Paid Time Off### 401(k) Company Match### Flexible Work Environment Renown Health is northern Nevada's healthcare leader and Reno's only locally owned, not-for-profit health system. We are an entire network of hospitals, primary care offices, urgent care centers, lab services, medical specialties, and x-ray and imaging services - with more than 7,000 nurses, doctors and care providers dedicated to the health and well-being of our community.
** For Providers:
** Renown Health and the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine (UNR Med) are affiliate partners in Nevada's first integrated academic health system. The affiliation aims to improve the health of the community, region, and state through research, medical education, and expanded clinical care. Renown physicians participate as joint faculty at UNR Med for teaching, lectures, supervising clinical rotations, and other academic activities for the education of medical and physician assistant students, residents and fellows.

Schedule:

Full Time - Eligible for Benefits## Position Purpose The ECMO Coordinator will be responsible for performing day-to-day ECMO program operational oversight. This is to include clinical training for ECMO staff, orientation facilitation for ECMO Specialists, establishing and measuring ECMO staff competencies, and the development of ECMO policies, procedures, and guidelines under the direction of the ECMO medical director. Perform the functions of the ECMO Specialist when necessary to meet pump staffing needs and function as an expert for all ECMO aspects of patient care and delivery in collaboration with physicians, surgeons, and the multidisciplinary teams.##

Nature and Scope
• Maintain all ECMO equipment and supplies including equipment and supply purchasing in collaboration with administration.
• Takes call 24/7 in weekly or bi-weekly rotation with the 2nd ECMO Coordinator with a 45 min call time to the hospital.
• Will be present at and facilitate every ECMO cannulation under the direction of the cannulating ECMO physician.
• Participates in ECMO consultations when on call.
• Participates in identifying learning needs and designs, plans, and implements effective and appropriate learning techniques to ensure clinical competency of ECMO providers.
• Coordinates lectures, in-services, simulation, and wet lab training to ensure ECMO provider competency.
• Coordinated in-house and on-call schedules with the administrative team to ensure appropriate staffing for the ECMO program and patient care delivery.
• Serves as a subject matter expert or has the ability to consult with experts when needed to identify potential emergencies and complication prevention for immediate resolution.
• Demonstrates a superior working knowledge of ECMO therapy including but not limited to the ECMO circuity and pump, adjustments to flow, sweep, FiO2, anticoagulation therapy set by the physician, point of care testing, patient monitoring systems, ABG interpretation, and related policies, procedures, and guidelines.
• Assists with the initiation of ECMO, the course of ECMO management, weaning and decannulation, and other therapies including but not limited to circuit and/or circuit component changes, priming, blood and medication administration to the circuit as permitted by licensure under the direction of the ECMO provider.
• Maintains regular effective communication with the physicians, hospital and clinical staff, direct supervisors, ECMO specialists, and other multidisciplinary personnel as directed in performing the job duties, responsibilities, and requirements when problems arise with equipment and/or personnel as established by Renown policies and protocols.
• Works in coordination with the ECMO coordinator through communication and shared responsibilities covering all aspects of the ECMO program.
• Completes all required documentation required by the coordinator according to Renown policies, protocols, and guidelines, including but not limited to ECMO charges and ELSO and quality data collection and reporting.
• Assists in data…