Job Summary and ResponsibilitiesAs our Ultrasound Technologist (Sonographer), you will utilize advanced sonographic equipment to record detailed images of blood, organs, tissues, and bodily masses, including unborn fetuses, providing critical visual data for diagnosis and prenatal care.
Every day you will directly interact with patients, explaining procedures, answering questions, and preparing them for scans. You will meticulously operate sonographic equipment, adjusting settings and patient positions to ensure clear, diagnostic images. You will monitor and care for patients to ensure their safety and comfort, select and examine images for pathologies, and present preliminary findings to Physicians.
To be successful in this role, you will possess excellent patient service and communication skills, sharp eyesight, and meticulous attention to detail. You will demonstrate strong technical proficiency, sound judgment, and advanced decision-making skills to effectively capture and interpret sonographic data, ensuring optimal diagnostic support.
- Transfers and positions patients. Measurement: Observation, Feedback.
- Performs Ultrasound procedures in accordance with department standards and in keeping with the orders of the referring physician. Measurement: Observation, Feedback, Departmental monitors.
- Demonstrates knowledge of Ultrasound protocols for Section and the ability to accurately apply principles to work. Keeps current on changes/new techniques, etc./ in ultrasound sonography. Measurement: Observation, Feedback, Departmental monitors.
- Interviews patients for pertinent medical history and obtains consents on patients prior to performing studies as required. Measurement: Observation, Feedback, Departmental monitors.
- Uses sterile technique and prevents cross-contamination. Measurement: Observation, Feedback, Departmental monitors.
- Orders and maintains supplies at an acceptable level in assigned area as needed. Measurement: Observation, Feedback, Inventory.
Job RequirementsRequired
- Must be a graduate from a CAAHEP accredited Sonography program and Must have recent (within the last 6 months) hands-on scanning experience either as an ultrasound student or as a sonographer, upon hire and
- More than one year experience in Abdomen or OB/Gyn.
- Basic Life Support - CPR, upon hire and
- Registered Diagnostic Medical Sonographer, upon hire or
- Registered Diagnostic Cardiac Sonographer, upon hire or
- Registered Diagnostic Cardiac Sonographer Adult Echo, upon hire or
- Registered Diagnostic Cardiac Sonographer Fetal Echo, upon hire or
- Registered Diagnostic Cardiac Sonographer Pediatric Echo, upon hire or
- Registered Diagnostic Medical Sonographer Abdomen, upon hire or
- Registered Diagnostic Medical Sonographer Breast, upon hire or
- Registered Diagnostic Medical Sonographer Neurosonology, upon hire or
- Registered Diagnostic Medical Sonographer OB/GYN, upon hire or
- Registered Diagnostic Medical Sonographer Pediatric Sono, upon hire
