Senior Sonographer - Echo Lab - UI Heart and Vascular Center

Qualified candidates may be eligible for a sign-on incentive of $10,000!

(Current UI employees are not eligible for incentive)

The UI Heart and Vascular Center (HVC) is seeking a full-time (100%) Senior Sonographer to perform a variety of complex ultrasound procedures at an advanced level that requires independent judgment and initiative to obtain information for use by physicians in diagnosing and treating patient illness, participate in educational activities, develop scanning protocols, provide leadership by participating in special projects and maintains multiple certifications in related specialty area.

Work authorization in the U.S. is required; sponsorship is not available for this role.

Duties to include:

• Review patient history and determine appropriateness of exam, modify exam protocol to answer specific diagnostic questions.
• Perform complex diagnostic ultrasonography procedures across multiple specialties requiring additional certification. 
• Provide preliminary interpretation and statistical information from scans to facilitate final diagnostic report.
• Provide guidance for sonographers who are performing complex procedures and require additional assistance to complete the procedure.
• Independently perform advanced sonography services or other tasks (e.g., interventional procedures, hold transducer etc.) delegated by the supervising physician, consistent with education, training, and facility protocols, policies, and procedures.
• May serve as a clinical technical lead/expert as it relates to their specialty accreditation or regulatory body (i.e.-Joint Commission). 
• Demonstrated competence in the specialty area(s).
• Assume responsibility for procedural tasks defined by the medical director during the sonography examination.
• Apply independent, professional, and ethical judgment and assistance in the sonography examination to ensure that appropriate anatomical, pathological, and clinical conditions are accurately captured in the examination images and during procedures.
• Consult with the interpreting physician regarding the ultrasound exam findings.
• Document exam information as required by departmental standards.
• Evaluate images of ultrasound exams and determine if the exam is of diagnostic quality.
• Serve as a resource for sonographers, fellows, residents and students and provide feedback about exam quality.
• Provide ultrasound guidance for providers during intraoperative and invasive procedures.
• Provide information and instructions to patient, patient’s family or others, regarding the nature of requested diagnostic and/or therapeutic procedures.
• Perform patient care techniques including skin preparation, I.V. placement, vital sign monitoring and recording, and basic life support; prepare and administer contrast material to patients.
• Coordinate planning and scheduling of diagnostic procedures and imaging areas.
• Requisition and inventory supplies for imaging areas and procedures.
• Develop and maintain quality assurance testing in accordance with hospital, departmental and clinical unit standards.
• Instruct, evaluate and advise sonography students on operation of diagnostic equipment.
• Instruct medical residents on operation of diagn