Manager, Invasive Cardiovascular
Posted Sep 11, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 6, 2026
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About your past
Tell me about a time you led a cath lab or procedural team through a change in workflow that staff pushed back on.
What they are checking: Whether they can move a tight-knit procedural team without losing the trust that makes emergency cases run smoothly.
Tell me about a serious safety event or near miss in a procedural area you were responsible for. What changed afterward?
What they are checking: Whether they run honest reviews that lead to lasting fixes and can speak about failure without getting defensive.
Tell me about a time you had to coach or let go of a high performer whose attitude was hurting the team.
What they are checking: Whether they protect team culture even when it costs them a skilled person in a hard-to-fill specialty.
What would you do
A STEMI comes in at 2 a.m. and your call team is slow to arrive. How do you look into door-to-balloon delays without turning it into blame?
What they are checking: Whether they treat a missed time metric as a system problem to fix rather than a person to punish.
An interventional cardiologist is short with your staff during cases and two techs have complained. What do you do?
What they are checking: Courage to address physician behavior directly and protect staff while keeping the working relationship intact.
Patient volume is growing faster than your staffing. How would you decide whether to ask for more FTEs, extend hours or change scheduling?
What they are checking: Ability to use volume and productivity data to make a case leadership will fund rather than simply asking for more people.
About the work
How do you build an on-call schedule for an invasive cardiovascular lab that stays fair and still covers every night and weekend?
What they are checking: Practical staffing sense for a service where call burden is the most common reason people quit.
What radiation safety practices do you expect in the lab, and how do you make sure they actually happen every case?
What they are checking: Whether they know dosimetry, shielding and fluoro time tracking well enough to enforce them without being in every room.
Your lab mixes RNs, cardiovascular techs and rad techs. How do you cross-train them, and where do you draw the line on scope?
What they are checking: Understanding that each license allows different tasks, and that cross-training cannot blur those limits.
Walk me through how you would manage the supply budget for a lab where stents, catheters and devices are very expensive.
What they are checking: Whether they can control high-cost inventory and physician preference items while keeping patient care first.
How do you keep the lab ready for a Joint Commission or state survey on an ordinary Tuesday, not just the week before?
What they are checking: Whether they build daily habits like time-outs, crash cart checks and documentation audits instead of cramming for surveys.
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