Echo Cardio Tech (Per Diem)

Description

Essential Job functions :

• Performs high quality, technically diagnostic cardiovascular exams in an out-patient setting. Exams include but are not limited to transthoracic echocardiograms and stress echocardiograms, including pharmacological stress echocardiogram testing.
• Experience with electronic EMR and insures proper patient identification, patient privacy, and willing to research and confirm appropriate testing with potential risk factors. Ability to perform a complete transthoracic echocardiogram including assessing systolic and diastolic function, and valvular anatomy.
• Assumes accountability for managing patient care and safety. Knowledge of cardiovascular disease and treatment. Knowledge of cardiac noninvasive procedures
• Administers contrast during echocardiograms or stress echocardiograms as needed for better visualization of wall segments. Administers agitated sterile saline for evaluating cardiac shunts.
• Adherence to department protocols and accreditation standards required.
• Utilizing ultrasound equipment to maximize quality for diagnostic echocardiograms. Experience with multiple ultrasound systems preferred.
• Promotes and maintains a safe, clean and orderly environment.
• Strong customer service skills. Communicate with patients in professional and respectful manner. Appropriately educates and explains procedures to patients.
• Portray respectful behavior with staff and coworkers as well as other departments. Including responding effectively in an emergency situation.
• Maintains equipment and inventories, restocks supplies, reviews patient schedules, sets up recording equipment and enters patient information into appropriate systems.
• Follows department standards for reporting equipment malfunctions or problems. Ensures equipment is in acceptable conditions by conducting routine quality control.
• Efficient with time management to complete studies to complete work within acceptable time frame. Ability to prioritize and coordinate multiple tasks. Ability to work independently and autonomously, self-motivated.
• Prioritizes and organizes work assignments and adjusts priorities based on changing situations. Is flexible to changing priorities.
• Prepare preliminary reports for the reading cardiologists. Notifies the cardiologist of urgent pathologies noted on the echocardiograms exams.
• Occasional travel to field clinics in rural Oregon to perform echocardiograms.
• Maintains job knowledge up to date by participating in educational opportunities, reading professional publications, maintaining personal networks and participating in professional organizations.

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