CT Technologist-Part Time-Weekend-Night

Job Summary

Provide CT and Diagnostic X-ray imaging services to patients in accordance with physicians' orders. Ensure patient safety and provide high-quality testing.

Essential Responsibilities

• Perform quality images through protocols and positions to best demonstrate anatomic area of interest, respecting patients' comfort and ability.
• Demonstrate knowledge to perform cross-section imaging and produce images in accordance with proper radiographic techniques.
• Evaluate images for technical quality, ensuring proper identification is recorded.
• Provide patient education on procedures according to age-specific needs.
• Facilitate patients' cooperation and alleviate anxiety by addressing concerns.
• Verify appropriate procedure to be performed by checking physicians' orders and outpatient prescriptions.
• Contact physicians with discrepancies.
• Prepare and administer contrast media as needed.
• Ensure appropriate documentation prior to procedure.
• Assist with procedures as needed.
• Provide timely, responsive, expert services to customers in a positive friendly manner, to include patient, physicians, and other fellow employees.
• Inform consumers and those accompanying them when delays exist and how they are being addressed.
• Maintain strict patient and staff confidentiality.
• Communicate to the patient when they will be receiving their results.
• Maintain safe radiation levels at all times to minimize exposure to patient, self, and others.
• Complete quality assurance, quality control, and radiation safety activities as appropriate.
• Establish patients' identification with patient and by checking patients' armbands.
• Ensure no repeat studies due to failure to check armband and/or improperly identified patient.
• Observe patient during procedures and report any unusual occurrences or changes in patients' condition to appropriate personnel.
• Ascertains allergy status on patients.
• Demonstrates compliance in IV access and follows departmental IV protocol.
• Demonstrates educated and rapid response to contrast reactions as outlined in Policy and Procedure Manual.
• Maintains neat, clean, and well-stocked room.
• Identifies staff training issues and participates in Policy and procedures development as appropriate.
• Communicates concerns as appropriate to lead technologists and management.
• Works as an effective team member with other colleagues to efficiently perform radiological procedures.
• Rotates shifts and assignments as required.
• Takes stand-by call as assigned and responds to call back per Call Policy.
• Adheres to Cooperative-wide Personal Protection Equipment, Universal Precautions, Related Medical Waste (RMW), Infection Control, Safety, and other OSHA Policies and Procedures.
• Ensures patient information is accurately entered into departmental computer system, as required by each site.
• Selects current account and completes patients for the appropriate procedure, as directed in Radiology Information System (RIS).

Basic Qualifications

• N/A

Education

• High School Diploma or General Education Development (GED) required.
• Graduated from an accredited radiologic technology program.

License, Certification, Registration

• Certified Radiologic Technologist (Washington)
• Basic Life Support

Preferred Qualifications

• One (1) year experience in a hospital setting.
• One (1) year of direct cross-sectional anatomy experience.
• One (1) year of recent direct experience in diagnostic x-ray procedures.

Information System

• Ensures patient information is accurately entered into departmental computer system, as required by each site.
• Selects current account and completes patients for the appropriate procedure, as directed in Radiology Information System (RIS).