About this role
It's more than a career, it's a calling MO-SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - St. Louis
Worker Type:
Regular
Job Highlights: Sign-on Bonus: Please speak with your recruiter about sign on bonus eligibility!
Benefits: Competitive, affordable health insurance including but not limited to:
• Getting paid every day!
• Access up to $5,250 in tuition coverage per year
• Paid maternity & paternity coverage
• Adoption assistance
• Various competitive health insurance options & wellness plans
• Retirement benefits including employer matching plans
• Long & short-term disability
• Employee assistance programs (EAP)
*Please note, benefits and eligibility can vary by position, exclusions may apply.
Job Summary: Performs diagnostic procedures to assess cardiac structures and hemodynamics in accordance with accepted protocols. This position performs either adult or pediatric echosonography.
Job Responsibilities and Requirements: PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES
• Performs appropriate diagnostic procedures, records patient test results and reports results. • Monitors patient comfort and safety during tests, alerting physicians to abnormalities or changes in patient responses. • Maintains adequate supplies and verifies all equipment is in proper working condition; reports deficiencies and failures. • Positions patients and selects anatomic and technical parameters accurately. • Ensures all activities comply with regulatory agency standards. • Ensures prompt submission of high-quality of all images and documents sent to PACS (image quality, correct lead markers and patient data/history). • Assists in maintaining a clean and orderly department to include procedure rooms, storage areas, dressing rooms, film storage area and any other areas in department. • Works in a constant state of alertness and safe manner. • Performs other duties as assigned.
EDUCATION
• Completion of an Echosonography program.
EXPERIENCE
• No experience required
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS
• Constant standing and walking. • Frequent use of vision and depth perception for distances near (20 inches or less) and far (20 feet or more). • Frequent use of hearing and speech to share information through oral communication. • Frequent use of hearing to distinguish body sounds and/or hear alarms, malfunctioning machinery, etc. • Frequent lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 0-25 lbs. • Frequent lifting/moving of patients. • Frequent reaching, gripping and keyboard use/data entry. • Occasional lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 25-50 lbs. • Occasional use of vision to identify and distinguish colors. • Occasional bending, stooping, squatting, twisting and repetitive foot/leg and hand/arm movements. • Rare kneeling and sitting.
REQUIRED PROFESSIONAL LICENSE AND/OR CERTIFICATIONS State of Work Location: Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma, Wisconsin
• Basic Life Support HealthCare Provider (BLS HCP) - American Heart Association (AHA) • And • Registered Cardiac Sonographer (RCS) - Cardiovascular Credentialing International (CCI) • Or • Registered Congenital Cardiac Sonographer (RCCS) - Cardiovascular Credentialing International (CCI) • Or • Registered Diagnostic Cardiac Sonographer (RDCS) with Adult Echocardiography (AE) Specialty - American Registry for Diagnostic Medical Sonography (ARDMS) • Or • Registered Diagnostic Cardiac Sonographer (RDCS) with Pediatric Echocardiography (PE) Specialty - American Registry for Diagnostic Medical Sonography (ARDMS)
Work Shift: Day Shift (United States of America)
Job Type:
Employee
Department:
3003000100 Cardiology
Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40
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