More Adult ECMO Specialist Ability Statements:
- Completes periodic skills testing and competency drills to maintain credentialing
- Obtains and prepares equipment based on type of support, patient diagnosis, age, and condition
- Confers with surgical team regarding cannulation strategies and selected cannulae
- Receives and gives constructive criticism when indicated
- Administers all blood products and medications appropriately when ordered to be given through the ECMO circuit
- Supports the team and customers to achieve quality, patient satisfaction, teamwork, culture of safety, and employee satisfaction
- Uses self-appraisal performance review and peer review, including annual goal-setting to promote safe and value-based practice
- Works in conjunction with the bedside nurse to manage cardiac drugs to ensure that the patient is hemodynamically stable
- Conducts the collection and management of quality improvement data
- Can monitor and troubleshoot continuous veno-venous hemofiltration (CVVH)
- Can monitor and troubleshoot centrifugal pump based ventricular assist devices (VADs)
- Coordinates a comprehensive, age, and culture specific continuum of care planning for all patients and families