Sonographer

Job Description:

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Posting Specifics

Shift Details :
Full-time (40 hours), Friday - Monday (Friday p, Sat/Sun- 10a-8:30p, Mon- 7-5:30)

Unit/

Location:

St. Vincent Regional Hospital

Additional Details: Please review Minimum Qualifications listed below before applying.

Are you interested in advancing your career while helping people live the healthiest lives possible? As an Ultrasound Technologist at Intermountain Health, you will play a vital role in supporting our Imaging service line, ensuring our patients receive the best care. At Intermountain, you will be part of a team that values career advancement, innovation and collaboration, where your skills are valued, and your contributions make a lasting impact.

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As an Ultrasound Technologist at Intermountain Health, you will play a vital role in supporting our imaging team, ensuring our patients receive the best care by:

• Ensures proper patient identification, verifies orders, and prepares patients for exams.

• Uses proper imaging techniques to ensure timely, safe, and high quality diagnostic exams.

• Demonstrates the ability to perform any exam on all ages of patients (neonates, pediatrics, adolescents, adults and geriatrics) using appropriate protocol and following ACR guidelines.

• Demonstrates proficiency on all clinical equipment within the department.

• Completes and annotates a medically acceptable exam, following ACR guidelines while producing the maximum diagnostic information in a minimal amount of time.

• Follows appropriate protocol for medical necessity, coding and charging, obtaining consents if necessary, documenting any events that may occur, for quality, maintaining a current QC program for ACR and reporting any equipment failures or problems.

• Exhibits good safety practices in body substance protection, cleaning of equipment, using proper sterile techniques, and removing any expired materials.

• Thoroughly and accurately completes all required documentation, including time stamps and image storage.

Required Qualifications Ultrasound Technologist

• ARRT Registry or ARDMS Registry. The ARDMS must include successful completion of one registry pertinent to the department beyond physics (options include OB, abdominal, neuro, breast, and, vascular).

• Basic life support (BLS) certification for healthcare providers.

Preferred Qualifications

• Ultrasound experience.

Required Qualifications Ultrasound Technologist II

• Must have completed a minimum of two additional years of experience relevant to the department post obtaining Ultrasound Tech I. (Primary Children’s one of the two years must be pediatric experience)
• American Registry for Diagnostic Medical Sonographers (ARDMS) Registry - Successful completion of one additional registry pertinent to the department beyond Ultrasound Technologist I or (SPI + 2 registries). Options include Obstetrics and Gynecology (OB/GYN), abdominal, neuro, breast, pediatric, Vascular, or Registered Diagnostic Cardiac Sonographer (RDCS). (Primary Children’s one of the two registries must be pediatric)
• Health Services CLS - Basic life support (Certification for Healthcare Providers)

Preferred Qualifications

• Additional experience
• Additional registries
• Vascular experience

• Ongoing need for employee to see and read information, labels, assess patient needs, operate monitors, identify equipment and supplies.
• Frequent interactions with patient care providers, patients, and visitors that require employee to verbally communicate as well as hear and understand spoken information, alarms, needs, and issues quickly and accurately, particularly during emergency situations.
• Manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate complex and delicate equipment with precision and accuracy. This includes frequent computer use and typing for documenting…