Registered Echo Technician - PRN

                    

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Job Title

Registered Echo Technician - PRN

                        

Location

Vero Beach

                    

Facility

Indian River Hospital

                     

Department

Ancillary Echocardiology-Indian River Hospital

                      

Job Code

D0331F

                     

Shift

Days + Call

                       

Schedule

7:30am-4:00pm

                       

Job Summary

                         

Job Details

Join our team at Cleveland Clinic Indian River Hospital and experience world-class healthcare at its best. Cleveland Clinic Indian River has been recognized as one of the top regional hospitals in South Florida. Indian River Hospital is in sunny Florida’s Treasure Coast where it is committed to providing optimal family-centric and community-focused care. At Indian River Hospital, you will be part of a collaborative, compassionate, and innovative team of caregivers. You will work with state-of-the-art technology and will build a rewarding career with one of the most respected healthcare organizations in the world.            

 

Echocardiograph (Echo) Technicians are an extremely specific kind of diagnostic medical sonographer dealing with the heart. Echo Technicians use ultrasound devices and other imaging tools that use sound waves to create images of the heart. They inspect the chambers and walls of the heart as well as the valves. An echocardiogram can be administered externally on a patient's chest but can also be conducted by placing a tube down a patient's esophagus to get closer to the heart internally. By joining the Indian River team as a Registered Echo Technician, you will oversee the quality assessment not only of the equipment but also our caregivers, which in turn helps aid to a positive patient experience. This role will provide you with plenty of hands-on learning and can act as a steppingstone to other careers within the field at Cleveland Clinic. 

 

A PRN caregiver in this position works varying days from 7:30AM – 4:00PM, with on-call requirements.   

 

A caregiver who excels in this role will:  

• Perform echocardiograms, stress tests, stress echoes and Dobutamine stress echo. 

• Assist cardiologist with transesophageal echocardiograms. 

• Consult with cardiologists for interpretation of test results.  

• Maintain records of testing documentation. 

• Provide daily account of patient's charge requisition with appropriate ICD9 codes. 

• Provide training and acts as a resource for echocardiogram students, residents and physicians. 

• Provide testing for add-on emergency patients.