Title: Sonographer (Breast experience)
Location: Cedar Park, TX
Facility: Outpatient Imaging Center
Compensation: - $2,470/week (based on 40 hours)
Duration: 12 weeks
Start Date: 12/07 or 12/14
Shift/Schedule: - Four 10-hour shifts (7:00 AM - 5:00 PM), Monday through Friday with Thursdays off (5x8-hour shifts also available if preferred)
Responsibilities: - Perform Breast Ultrasound Examinations: Conduct targeted diagnostic ultrasounds and screening breast ultrasounds in accordance with ACR guidelines and center protocols.
- Diagnostic Evaluation: Evaluate clinical indications, palpable masses, mammographic abnormalities, and high-risk screening patients to capture detailed, diagnostic-quality images.
- Image Analysis & Documentation: Annotate images accurately using BI-RADS terminology and prepare concise technical summaries for the interpreting radiologist.
- Patient Care & Experience: Provide personalized, compassionate care tailored to an outpatient environment-explaining procedures, collecting clinical histories, performing physical palpation assessments, and alleviating patient anxiety.
- Daily Caseload & Procedures: Handle approximately 20-24 scans per day (scheduled in 20-, 40-, or 60-minute blocks depending on the procedure type: screening, diagnostic, or general).
Required Skills: - Clinical & Technical Proficiency: Ability to perform targeted diagnostic and screening breast ultrasounds following ACR guidelines and center protocols.
- Diagnostic Assessment: Skilled in evaluating clinical indications, palpable masses, mammographic abnormalities, and high-risk patients to produce diagnostic-quality images.
- Documentation & Terminology: Accurate image annotation using BI-RADS terminology and preparation of concise technical summaries for radiologists.
- Patient-Centered Care: Strong interpersonal skills to explain procedures, gather clinical histories, perform physical palpation assessments, and ease patient anxiety in an outpatient setting.
- Preferred Qualifications: Minimum 2 years of dedicated breast ultrasound experience, background in General Ultrasound, prior fast-paced outpatient imaging center experience, and familiarity with Royal EHR and Siemens equipment.
