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Echo Technologist II

Baylor St Luke's Medical Center Houston, Texas
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The posted compensation range of $33.60 - $48.73 /hour is a reasonable estimate that extends from the lowest to the highest pay CommonSpirit in good faith believes it might pay for this particular job, based on the circumstances at the time of posting. CommonSpirit may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range as permitted by law.

Requisition ID 2023-311571 Employment Type PRN Department Echocardiology Hours/Pay Period 40 Shift Day Weekly Schedule Varies Remote No Category Technician
Overview

Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center


A quaternary care facility that is home of the Texas Heart® Institute, a world-class cardiovascular research and education institution founded in 1962 by Denton A. Cooley, MD–consistently ranked as one of the nation’s best in Cardiovascular Services & Heart Surgery.

The first hospital in Texas and the Southwest designated a Magnet® hospital for Nursing Excellence by the American Nurses Credentialing Center, receiving the award four consecutive times. Baylor St. Luke’s is home to three freestanding community emergency centers (Holcombe, Pearland, and San Felipe) offering adult and pediatric care–treating more than 51,000 patients annually. The hospital holds a collaborative partnership with Baylor College of Medicine and affiliations with The University of Texas Medical School at Houston, The University of Texas Medical Branch (Galveston), Houston Baptist University, and Prairie View A&M University.

Position Summary

Operates ultrasound equipment and Performs a variety of technical diagnostic procedures which encompass the specialty area of Echocardiography. Must be able to perform 2D/Doppler echocardiograms, Pharmacological and TMT stress echocardiograms and assist with Transesophageal echocardiograms.


Responsibilities

Position Responsibilities:

  • Prepares equipment ensuring that equipment is operational, safe and functioning according to diagnostic standards
  • Problem solve equipment failure and imaging quality and contacts service representative regarding equipment problems
  • Ensures that daily equipment and room maintenance is performed during after each procedure, and that special precautions and measures are performed to ensure infection control standards
  • Completes all quality checks and Ensures that equipment logs are maintained
  • Completes all clinical supply inventories, ensuring that each diagnostic room is complete with the necessary supplies required to perform the procedure
  • Actively Participates with patient testing, performing routine, non-routine, urgent, and emergent patient requests
  • Communicates with Patient Transportation, Nursing Units, Physician Offices, and other diagnostic areas to ensure that the patients receive their diagnostic procedures in a smooth, efficient and safe manner
  • Performs portable examinations at the bedside to ensure patient safety as well as provide immediate diagnostic testing when needed
  • Ensures that patient orientation, patient preparation and patient teaching are provided prior, during and following the test completion
  • Direct physician interaction by performing case by case review of the physician request for a procedure to be performed, as well as verifying the type of diagnostic test requested and that the indication for the procedure is consistent
  • Independently selects the correct algorithm to ensure that the comprehensive and appropriate diagnostic test is performed
  • Provide specific diagnostic test information to the patient ensuring that the patient is aware to the diagnostic test involvement
  • Obtain patient history according to specific departmental procedural protocol
  • Perform physical assessment and tests according to specific departmental protocol
  • Position the patient for the examination according to specific departmental protocol
  • Select the specific equipment pre-sets and modify the settings to ensure that optimal image, Doppler and color Doppler information is obtained
  • Ensure that all recording equipment is operational
  • Complete the diagnostic examination according to specific departmental procedural protocols. Specific procedures each have defined protocols
  • Obtain assistance with any diagnostic procedures which are not completed, or if there are any patient care issues
  • Complete processing diagnostic tapes, Worksheets, and completing supporting documentation of logs, demographic and diagnostic information required for departmental, hospital and patient record documentation
  • Complete preliminary diagnostic reports
  • Complete patient visit by ensuring that patient has been discharged safely, that the diagnostic procedure is complete, that the documentation has been processed including the patient charges
  • Assist with departmental quality monitoring
    May be required based on Facility assignment:
  • Administer contrast agents, including saline contrast

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements:

Education and Licensure:

  • Associate’s Degree OR one year certificate from a health related program in a related medical field, which include seminar course training in cardiac ultrasound preferred  
  • Registered by American Diagnostic Registry for Medical Sonographers (ARDMS) as RDCS OR RVT or Registered by Cardiovascular Credentialing International (CCI) as RVS or RCS

Minimum Experience:

  • Two (2) years related experience   
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While you’re busy impacting the healthcare industry, we’ll take care of you with benefits that may include health/dental/vision, FSA, matching retirement plans, paid time off, tuition assistance, adoption assistance, and more!

Unless directed by a Collective Bargaining Agreement, applications for this position will be considered on a rolling basis. CommonSpirit Health cannot anticipate the date by which a successful candidate may be identified.

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