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SalaryPatients Medical Center (PMC) provides inpatient and outpatient medical and surgical services to residents of Pasadena, Deer Park, La Porte, Baytown, and Clear Lake. The facility includes 53 medical/surgical beds, eight ICU beds and three endoscopy rooms, and offers a range of primary and specialized services—wound care, general surgery, gastroenterology, occupational health, heart and vascular, women’s services, diagnostic imaging, outpatient rehab services, and sleep disorders.
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.
Responsibilities
1. Prepares equipment ensuring that equipment is operational, safe and functioning according to diagnostic standards
2. Problem solve equipment failure and imaging quality and contacts service representative regarding equipment problems
3. Ensures that daily equipment and room maintenance is performed during after each procedure, and that special precautions and measures are performed to ensure infection control standards
4. Completes all quality checks and Ensures that equipment logs are maintained
5. Completes all clinical supply inventories, ensuring that each diagnostic room is complete with the necessary supplies required to perform the procedure
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 to ensure that the patients receive their diagnostic procedures in a smooth, efficient and safe manner
8. Performs portable examinations at the bedside to ensure patient safety as well as provide immediate diagnostic testing when needed
9. Ensures that patient orientation, patient preparation and patient teaching are provided prior, during and following the test completion
10. Direct physician interaction by performing case by case review of the physician request for a procedure to be performed, as well as verifying the type of diagnostic test requested and that the indication for the procedure is consistent
11. Independently selects the correct algorithm to ensure that the comprehensive and appropriate diagnostic test is performed
12. Provide specific diagnostic test information to the patient ensuring that the patient is aware to the diagnostic test involvement
13. Obtain patient history according to specific departmental procedural protocol
14. Perform physical assessment and tests according to specific departmental protocol
15. Position the patient for the examination according to specific departmental protocol
16. Select the specific equipment pre-sets and modify the settings to ensure that optimal image, Doppler and color Doppler information is obtained
17. Ensure that all recording equipment is operational
18. Complete the diagnostic examination according to specific departmental procedural protocols. Specific procedures each have defined protocols
19. Obtain assistance with any diagnostic procedures which are not completed, or if there are any patient care issues
20. Complete processing diagnostic tapes, Worksheets, and completing supporting documentation of logs, demographic and diagnostic information required for departmental, hospital and patient record documentation
21. Complete preliminary diagnostic reports
22. Complete patient visit by ensuring that patient has been discharged safely, that the diagnostic procedure is complete, that the documentation has been processed including the patient charges
23. Assist with departmental quality monitoring
24. Administer contrast agents, including saline contrast
Qualifications
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 preferred
Licensure/Certification:
Registered by American Diagnostic Registry for Medical Sonographers (ARDMS) as RDCS
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Registered by Cardiovascular Credentialing International (CCI) as RVS or RCS
Minimum Experience:
*Two (2) years related experience
Available Pay Transparency Information
$29.95 - $43.43 /hour
