Perinatal Sonographer

At Fairview Health Services, we are seeking a skilled Perinatal Sonographer to join our Maternal Fetal Medicine Clinics team. As a Perinatal Sonographer, you will play a critical role in providing advanced level sonography services for women experiencing high-risk pregnancies and their unborn babies.

• Perform examinations with technical accuracy and in a timely manner.
• Identify anatomical orientation on all related images.
• Understand structure visualized and its significance.
• Use internal/external resources to obtain and/or identify all required images.
• Identify correct template when generating report.
• Provide care, education, and support for patients during pregnancy terminations.
• Ensure proper identification on all images.
• Accurately complete computer functions - edits, status changes, and logging.
• Accurately ensure correct patient identification.
• Accurately identify each patient and reason why she has been referred to Maternal-Fetal Medicine for services.
• Accurately follow standardized processes for archiving and completing report.
• Accurately use Tricefy software to send images to patient.
• Maintain patient care.
• Conduct examinations while following established patient care and safety procedures.
• Position patients as required achieving quality diagnostic images according to department protocol.
• Document initial and ongoing data, interventions, responses/results.
• Perform interventions consistent with established policies/procedures/guidelines.
• Prepare and plan ahead to coordinate exams and organize patient care to ensure quality and continuity of patient care.
• Provide ultrasound exam keeping in mind that patients/families are potentially anxious, concerned, and frightened due to the identification of a potential pregnancy complication.
• Consider the comfort of the pregnant woman and position for patient comfort and fetal well-being.
• May need to transport patient to exam room or perform portable ultrasound exams at patient's bedside.
• May need to move ultrasound machine from hospital to clinic as needed for patient scheduling.
• Maintain equipment.
• Correctly operate and optimize use of equipment.
• Document equipment concerns and/or malfunctions.
• Initiate a service call when appropriate to ensure efficient department operation.
• Accurately access system administrator for Perinatal PACS system with issues/questions in a timely manner to ensure archival of images.

• Vocational/Technical Training in Ultrasonography or Associate Degree.
• Registered or registry eligible by ARDMS (with goal of achieving OB/GYN within 1 year of hire).
• BLS certification.

• Bachelor's Degree in Radiation Science or in Imaging.
• Experience working in a Maternal-Fetal Medicine Center.
• Nuchal Translucency, Fetal Echo, or CLEAR certification.