Sonographer - Echo & Vascular - Casual​/PRN

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Job Summary

Location:
Methodist Hospital

Address: 8303 Dodge St, Omaha, NE

Work Schedule:

This is a casual position. Casual employees work on an ‘as needed’ basis to meet the needs of the business. Work days/hours will often vary from week to week.

Coordinates and performs vascular/echo procedures.

Responsibilities

Essential Functions

Exam performance/quality.

• Identifies each patient by  verification and birth date.
• Ensures patient understanding of pending procedure.
• Cover appropriate body parts and position patient correctly.
• Follows appropriate guidelines and departmental protocols.
• Performs exams as priority dictates and as directed.
• Critiques each exam for technical and positional accuracy and makes appropriate corrections if necessary.

• Review orders for clinical and demographic consistency and verifies accuracy prior to exam.
• Willfully assists physicians, patients, and coworkers as needed and seeks opportunities to provide patient care.
• Understand and support the direction and workflow of the department.
• Maintain awareness of ongoing exams and assist co-workers as needed.
• Provide exam information and status updates to pertinent staff members.
• Relieves co-workers from procedures/exams as necessary.
• Be in the department and ready to work at the start of scheduled shift.
• Have processes set in place to allow for leaving at the end of scheduled shift.
• Obtain and consolidate all images, reports and history with completed exam information for review.
• Take call. Coordinates inpatient procedure flow. (Hospital Only)

• Maintain a working knowledge of Cerner.
• Starts and completes own exams correctly and in a timely manner.
• Consistently uses the Online Worklist to monitor orders and order status.
• Verify correct images matched with order.
• Able to perform clean up functions on PACS workstation.

• Ensures proper patient identification on all images to comply with department policies and procedures.
• Willingly seeks opportunity to provide patient care, or assist others as needed.
• Demonstrates knowledge of department guidelines through responsible behavior/actions.
• Maintains updated ARDMS license.
• Ensures that call reports and/or other specifications are followed through.
• Report issues/concerns as soon as possible and provide assistance with resolution/follow-up.

• Provides and monitors “on the job training” per Methodist College standards.
• Maintains professional and courteous relationship with students and instructors.
• Provide leadership and guidance for students' education clinical experience.

• Maintains patient confidentiality coinciding with HIPAA.
• Maintain student/co-worker confidentiality coinciding with FERPA.

• Provides appropriate patient care.
• Shows confidence and competency in all age specific categories.
• Ensures patient comfort and understanding of ordered exam.