Steven Porterfield

• Coordinated with nurse manager to develop programs targeting nurse education, overall departmental competencies, individual performance, patient safety and service-related issues.
• General patient care, scrub,circulate and monitor of all cardiac,peripheral and ep cases.
• Insertion and removal of Impellas,IABP and arterial and venous lines.
• Improved medical equipment competencies and care best practices through various ongoing learning options.
• Monitored quality assurance program to improve performance and maintain high standards of care.
• Improve policies and procedures through development, implementation, revision and evaluation of new protocols.
• Coordinate weekly work schedules for all cardiac cath and recovery room employees.
• Monitored clinical staff work hours, sick days and vacation time.
• Collaborated effectively with interdisciplinary teams to deliver quality patient care.
• Maintained confidential records on patient treatments and diagnosis to alleviate possible data breaches.
• Set up equipment to prepare for patient procedures and tests.
• Monitored patients' blood pressure and heart rates before, during and after procedures.
• Checked, tested and maintained cardiology equipment to uphold optimal diagnostic standards.
• Educated patients on cardiac conditions and treatments in easy-to-understand terminology.
• Operated diagnostic systems, adhering to protocols to minimize machine damage and patient injury.
• Tested patient cardiac activity with specialized equipment to conduct tests such as echocardiograms, phonocardiograms and electrocardiograms.
• Documented findings manually and with recording devices such as mac/cardo lab, epic to update medical records.

Scrubbed,circulated and monitored all procedures in the cardiac cath and ep labs.

Set up the diagno, trained the cath lab staff in proper techniques involved in cath procedures.