Pulmonary Function Technologist

Job Title: Pulmonary Function Technologist
Job Location: Nashua NH
Job Type: Contract

Job Description:

• Supports and promotes the mission and values of Covenant Health Ministry.
• Annual Competency/Training: Completes annual competency related to all job duties for PFT technologists and for ABG lab. Assists in scheduling and overseeing the training of Respiratory Therapy program students in the Pulmonary Function lab.
• Communication: Effectively communicates with providers ambulatory care offices and staff members for scheduling of specialty exams in the Pulmonary Lab.
• Customer Support/Outreach: In absence of Administrative Systems Coordinator: Confirms patient appointments on day prior to scheduled testing and provides testing instructions when necessary. Participates in hospital-wide and interdepartmental in-services.
• Recognizes trends which impact quality delivery of services and recommends courses of action to help correct them.
• Provides accurate documentation of testing performed and billing in the electronic medical record.
• In absence of Administrative Systems Coordinator- contacts interpreting physicians from Pulmonary group and informs Manager/Director if delays are noted with PFT interpretation time. Confirms patient appointments on day prior to scheduled testing and provides testing instructions when necessary. Assists with the following: Scheduling and/or rescheduling of patients for complex testing procedures or because of lab closures. Receives patients for testing completes patient registration to include verification of insurance and validation of patient information and proper testing to be performed. Notifies providers of high priority testing and reworks schedules to accommodate such tests.
• Assists in ordering of supplies checking to prevent accumulation of over stock to help maintain expense budget.
• Helps to maintain monthly log sheet for compilation of monthly statistics for Respiratory and Pulmonary Function testing for reporting by 4th day of the month.
• Assists in the compilation of the monthly stats for annual reports. Runs DTAR for Pulmonary Lab in absence of manager/Administrative Systems Coordinator/Clinical Coordinator and verifies their correctness with the manager.
• Assists in monitoring the daily operation of the Blood Gas Lab to assure adherence to the College of American Pathologists (CAP) Guidelines.
• Prepares maintains and calibrates pulmonary function testing equipment.
• Ability to perform pulmonary function tests for demonstration purposes and for the collection of biological control data for QC purposes.
• Troubleshoots equipment problems and reports needed repairs/replacements.
• Other duties as consistent with this role.