Echocardiography Specialist
3 weeks ago
The Echo Technologist performs quality echocardiographic studies and all other non-invasive cardiac procedures at NCH as ordered by the physicians, while maintaining a positive working relationship with all health professionals and staff.
Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities:- Demonstrates a commitment to professionalism in all interactions with patients, clients, physicians, facility staff and the community.
- Seeks assistance and education from appropriate sources.
- Participates in and contributes to departmental quality assurance program as demonstrated by participation at department staff meetings and active involvement in performance improvement projects.
- Demonstrates customer service in all interactions that is compassionate, courteous, friendly, and helpful.
- Demonstrates respect for privacy, diversity, and confidentiality in all interactions.
- Demonstrates the ability to operate and maintain equipment to departmental standards.
- Utilizes information channels for the receipt and dissemination of information, i.e., work orders, dietary orders, lab requisitions, meeting information, etc.
- Demonstrates knowledge of policies and procedures as they relate to job duties needed for documentation as required by accrediting and regulatory standards.
- Demonstrates competence in performance of echocardiographic studies.
- Performs echocardiographic studies considering the age-specific physiological, emotional, and cognitive needs of the patient.
- Consistently performs quality Doppler and color Doppler Exams.
- May acquire quality Stress Echo and Dobutamine images according to Physician and benchmark standards.
- Maintains competence in all other procedures performed in the department.
- Demonstrates understanding of cardiac disease processes in order to obtain complete acquisition of images for clinical diagnosis by the reading cardiologist.
- Reports pertinent information or changes of patient's condition to physician, nurse and/or supervisor/senior tech incorporating age-specific information.
- Reports findings or concerns to reading physician for prompt interpretation.
- Records preliminary interpretation of studies on patient worksheet incorporating age specific information.
- Documents patient information and processes reports accurately and timely.
- Notifies the reading cardiologist of any referral studies to be read.
- Educates patients and/or patients' family regarding procedures performed and communicates effectively with patient and/or family.
- Maintains equipment including cleaning and disinfecting according to department procedure.
- Identifies problems with equipment and notifies appropriate resources for diagnosis and repair.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
- Ability to perform quality and compete echocardiogram studies.
- Ability to act with integrity, professionalism, and confidentiality.
- Ability to work independently and with a team.
- Demonstrated technical skills and judgment to function unsupervised.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Excellent interpersonal and customer service skills.
- Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
- Excellent time management skills with a proven ability to meet deadlines.
- Satisfactory completion of an accredited non-invasive cardiovascular training program, with a focus in echocardiography.
- Satisfactory completion of a recognized course in arrhythmia detection.
- 2 years' current experience as a registered echocardiography.
- Registered Diagnostic Cardiac Sonographer (RDCS) or Registered Cardiac Sonographer (RCS) required.
- BLS/CPR certification required within one week of hire. AHA & ARC accepted.
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