Cardiac Sonographer OP, 2 Bon Air Outpatient Services, Per Diem, Days

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Company:

Marin General Hospital dba MarinHealth Medical Center

Compensation Range:

$74.22 - $97.87

Work Shift:

8 Hour (days) (United States of America)

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

0

Job Description Summary:

The Cardiac Sonographer (CS) performs all echocardiograms and maintains supplies/records relevant to the Echocardiography department in an outpatient scheduled and planned care environment. The primary role of the Cardiac Sonographer is to obtain diagnostic recordings of cardiac ultrasound images, Stress Echos and Doppler hemodynamic data.

Job Requirements, Prerequisites and Essential Functions:

Job Specifications:

Education:

• High School graduate required.

• Graduate of a CAAHEP accredited diagnostic medical Sonography and Cardiovascular Technician program and/or eligible for RDCS credential. Must be RDCS within one year of employment.

Experience:

• Three years full-time experience in an equivalent position preferred.

License and Certifications:

• BLS certification required at hire.

• Credentialed as RDCS/RDMS, or eligible. Must complete within one year of hire.

Prerequisite Skills:

• Demonstrates skill with scanning and reporting transthoracic, and stress echocardiography

• Arrhythmia interpretation skills preferred.

Primary Customer Served (Age Specific Criteria):

• ( ) Infants: Birth up to 1 year

• ( ) Toddlers: 1 up to 3 years

• ( ) Preschool Children: 3 up to 6 years

• ( ) School Age Children: 6 up to 12 years

• ( ) Adolescents: 12 up to 18 years

• (X) Early Adults: 18 up to 45 years

• (X) Middle Adults: 45 up to 61 years

• (X) Late Adults: 61 up to 80 years

• (X) Late, Late Adults: 80 years and up

Employees in this position must be able to demonstrate the knowledge and skill necessary to provide care and/or service based on the physical, psycho/social, educational, safety, and related criteria appropriate to the age of the patients served in his/her assigned service area.

Patient Privacy (HIPAA Compliance):

Employees in this position have access to protected health information.  The protected health information a person in this position can access includes demographics, date of service, insurance/billing, medical record summary information, and all other information that may be contained in patient records.  This position requires patient health information to perform the functions outlined as part of this position description

Duties And Responsibilities:

Essential (Not Modifiable)

Performs:

• Transthoracic echocardiograms: 2-Dimensional, M-Mode, and Doppler (PW, CW, Color Flow), Agitated saline study, Contrast, Pedoff

• Exercise or pharmacological stress echo

• Identifies pathophysiology and modifies exam appropriately.

• Makes quantitative and qualitative assessment of echo and Doppler data.

• Orders and stocks all supplies.

• Operates PACS digital workstation, i.e., reviews studies and generates preliminary reports.

Secondary (Modifiable)

• All other duties as assigned.

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