Christopher Luca
EP and Cath Lab Clinical Coordinator with 12 years of EP experience seeking an Assistant Manager role focused on clinical leadership, patient safety, and operational excellence. Experienced in leading teams, optimizing EP lab workflows, and driving process improvement. I am committed to building collaborative teams, improving lab efficiency, and delivering safe, high-quality patient care.
Work History
Registered Nurse-Clinical Coordinator
3 Years 5 Months- Safely caring for patients
- Collaboration with staff, physicians, anesthesia, and vendors
- Process improvement (25% volume increase, 10 minute room turnaround times, direct-to-cath lab process)
- Supply inventory, management, procurement
- Executed billing for procedures to ensure timely reimbursement
- Facilitator-Monthly Heart Center Meeting (Parker campus)
- Assist department manager with capital equipment purchases and contracts, new building construction decisions, staff relations.
- Department representative for monthly regional EP meetings
- HERT Team participant
- Coordinate cath lab involvement in community outreach functions
- Collaborate with cardiac diagnostic team to help facilitate patient care
- JACHO audits
- Emergency Management Committee participant
Travel RN-EP/Cardiac Cath Lab Registered Nurse
7 Months- Pre/post patient admission, recovery, and discharges for EP procedures
- Circulate and monitor EP cases to include cardiac ablations and device implants to include PPMs, Micras, ICDs, Watchman, and loop recorders.
- Set-up, operation, and troubleshooting of mapping/pacing equipment
- Collaborate with EP team, physicians, anesthesia, and PACU
- Assist the department billing representative with procedural charges
- Supply inventory
- Patient/family education
- After hours STEMI call for interventional cath lab
Clinical Account Specialist
1 Year 8 Months- Coordinated electrophysiology case support, ensuring readiness of CARTO mapping and ablation equipment.
- Educated clinicians on device handling, procedural workflow, and troubleshooting best practices.
- Collaborated with physicians and hospital staff to optimize case coverage and procedural efficiency.
- Monitored inventory levels, consignment assets, and product availability across assigned accounts.
Clinical Coordinator for EP Services
7 Years 9 Months- Delivered safe patient care
- Patient/family education
- Circulated, monitored, and scrubbed EP procedures to include device implants, loop recorders, and cardiac ablations used in the treatment of arrhythmias such as A-Fib, SVT, AVNRT, VT, and PVCs
- Collaborated with EP team, physicians, anesthesia, vendors, and PACU to ensure continuity of care.
- Negotiated capital equipment purchases with vendors
- Process improvement
- Agent of the cardiac rehabilitation team providing phase I rehab on inpatients
- Case scheduling
- Procedural billing
- PPM and ICD registry and warranty claims
- EP team built facility's first A-Fib program from the ground up to include capital equipment purchases, training of staff, development of workflows, auditing of charts post procedure, and collaboration with physicians, anesthesia, vendors, staff, and PACU
- First facility in the healthcare system to complete three A-Fib ablations within 8 hours including room turnaround time.
- Workflow served as the model used system-wide to provide more efficient and standardized processes to increase throughput.
Education
Associate of Science - Nursing
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
Associate of Science - Criminal Justice
Skills
Accomplishments
- Parker cath lab volumes have increased 25% month-over-month and year-over-year. Same can be said for EP volumes.
- Parker cath lab turnaround times average 10 minutes, resulting in more efficient throughput.
- Parker cath team development of direct-to-lab protocol for STEMI patients arriving from the ED, resulting in decreased door-to-balloon times.
- Lead first EP team to develop, build, and implement an A-Fib ablation program from the ground up.
- First EP team to perform three A-Fib ablations in eight hours including room turnover time within 10 facility healthcare system.
- Discovered multiple billing practice discrepancies and corrected them, resulting in millions of dollars of lost revenue getting credited to the appropriate departments. (Parker/St. John Medical Center)
- Multiple Daisy Award nominations
- Nominated Clinical Nurse of the Year 2019
- 2x Airman of the month-United States Air Force
- Air Force Achievement Award-United States Air Force
Certification
- ALS
- BLS
Timeline
Registered Nurse-Clinical Coordinator
Travel RN-EP/Cardiac Cath Lab Registered Nurse
Clinical Account Specialist
Clinical Coordinator for EP Services
Adventhealth University
Lorain County Community College
Lorain County Community College
Military
United States Air Force, Staff Sergeant-Retired (E2-E5) May 2000-October 2003
Managed 75 Airman. Responsible to overseeing the inspection, routine maintenance, troubleshooting and repair of cock-pit avionics and aircraft electrical systems for 15 AWACS aircraft valued at 270 million dollars each. Developed, implemented and precepted a training program for Airman in upgrade training. Coordinated daily maintenance activities. Acted as a liaison with flight crews, maintenance, support staff, and command. Awarded several military honors to include 2x Airman of the Month, and one time Airman of the Quarter.
Volunteer
Search and Rescue K9 Handler
Dedicated thousands of hours to training and handling canines specialized in search and rescue work. Work involves collaborating with federal, state, and local authorities and jurisdictions in locating missing persons, deceased or alive. Facilitated educational seminars for law enforcement, Coroner and Medical Examiner's offices on the correct use of canines at crime or death scenes. Currently training one canine for cadaver work.