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Echo Technologist I - Echo/EKG (Days) PRN
•30 days ago
Hours | Full-time, Part-time |
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Location | Sugar Land, TX Sugar Land, Texas |
About this job
Sugar Land Hospital
An acute care hospital offering medical and surgical services to the Fort Bend community, Sugar Land Hospital provides clinical services that include heart and vascular, gastroenterology, neurosciences, diagnostic imaging, women services, orthopedics, and surgical services including the latest in robotic surgery technology, the da Vinci Xi. The hospital offers The University of Texas MD Anderson Regional Care Center on its campus. Sugar Land Hospital is a Pink Ribbon Facility offering 3-D digital mammography-one of only 100 sites in the United States.
Operates ultrasound equipment and Performs a variety of technical diagnostic procedures which encompass the specialty area of Echocardiography. Must be able to perform 2D/Doppler echocardiograms, Pharmacological and TMT stress echocardiograms and assist with Transesophageal echocardiograms.
Minimum Qualifications
Minimum Education: Associate's Degree OR one year certificate from a health related program in a related medical field, which include seminar course training in cardiac ultrasound required
Required Licensure: Registered by American Diagnostic Registry for Medical Sonographers (ARDMS) as RDCS OR: Registered by Cardiovascular Credentialing International (CCI) as RVS or RCS
Minimum years in field prior to employment:None required
1. Performs ultrasound diagnostic imaging on patients according to the specific departmental procedure protocols
2. Prepares equipment ensuring that equipment is operational, safe and functioning
3. Ensures that daily equipment and room maintenance is performed after each procedure
4. Completes all quality checks and Ensures that equipment logs are maintained
5. Completes all clinical supply inventory
6. Actively Participates with patient testing, performing routine, non-routine, urgent, and emergent patient requests
7. Communicates with Patient Transportation, Nursing Units, Physician Offices, and other diagnostic areas
8. Performs portable examinations at the bedside to ensure patient safety as well as provide immediate diagnostic testing when needed
9. Assists with patient scheduling when required
10. Ensures that patient orientation, preparation and teaching are provided
11. Provide specific diagnostic test information to the patient
12. Obtain patient history according to specific departmental procedural protocol
13. Complete processing diagnostic tapes, Worksheets, and completing supporting documentation of logs
14. Notify referring physician, cardiology fellow, Medical Director and/or pertinent Medical Staff with any diagnostic findings which warrant communication
15. Provide post-care and education to the patient
16. Complete patient visit by ensuring that patient has been discharged safely
17. Assist with departmental quality monitoring
18. Participate in new equipment evaluation
May be required based on Facility assignment:
19. Administer contrast agents, including saline contrast
An acute care hospital offering medical and surgical services to the Fort Bend community, Sugar Land Hospital provides clinical services that include heart and vascular, gastroenterology, neurosciences, diagnostic imaging, women services, orthopedics, and surgical services including the latest in robotic surgery technology, the da Vinci Xi. The hospital offers The University of Texas MD Anderson Regional Care Center on its campus. Sugar Land Hospital is a Pink Ribbon Facility offering 3-D digital mammography-one of only 100 sites in the United States.
Operates ultrasound equipment and Performs a variety of technical diagnostic procedures which encompass the specialty area of Echocardiography. Must be able to perform 2D/Doppler echocardiograms, Pharmacological and TMT stress echocardiograms and assist with Transesophageal echocardiograms.
Minimum Qualifications
Minimum Education: Associate's Degree OR one year certificate from a health related program in a related medical field, which include seminar course training in cardiac ultrasound required
Required Licensure: Registered by American Diagnostic Registry for Medical Sonographers (ARDMS) as RDCS OR: Registered by Cardiovascular Credentialing International (CCI) as RVS or RCS
Minimum years in field prior to employment:None required
1. Performs ultrasound diagnostic imaging on patients according to the specific departmental procedure protocols
2. Prepares equipment ensuring that equipment is operational, safe and functioning
3. Ensures that daily equipment and room maintenance is performed after each procedure
4. Completes all quality checks and Ensures that equipment logs are maintained
5. Completes all clinical supply inventory
6. Actively Participates with patient testing, performing routine, non-routine, urgent, and emergent patient requests
7. Communicates with Patient Transportation, Nursing Units, Physician Offices, and other diagnostic areas
8. Performs portable examinations at the bedside to ensure patient safety as well as provide immediate diagnostic testing when needed
9. Assists with patient scheduling when required
10. Ensures that patient orientation, preparation and teaching are provided
11. Provide specific diagnostic test information to the patient
12. Obtain patient history according to specific departmental procedural protocol
13. Complete processing diagnostic tapes, Worksheets, and completing supporting documentation of logs
14. Notify referring physician, cardiology fellow, Medical Director and/or pertinent Medical Staff with any diagnostic findings which warrant communication
15. Provide post-care and education to the patient
16. Complete patient visit by ensuring that patient has been discharged safely
17. Assist with departmental quality monitoring
18. Participate in new equipment evaluation
May be required based on Facility assignment:
19. Administer contrast agents, including saline contrast