Echo Technician

About the role

Join an organization that invests in you as an Echo Technician at Methodist Hospital Westover Hills. HCA Healthcare has committed up to $300 million in programs to support our incredible team members over the course of three years.

Responsibilities

• Acquires a signed physician order with indicator for all exams.
• Demonstrates good judgment in responding to STAT calls and appropriately prioritizes STAT orders.
• Ensures patient consent is signed for the ordered procedure.
• Effectively communicates and explains the procedure to the patient without discussing clinical findings of the exam.
• Validates the patient and/or family understanding of the procedure.
• Ensures proper equipment operation during patient exams.
• Demonstrates proficiency in basic troubleshooting, equipment cleaning, storage and preventative maintenance.
• Demonstrates technical proficiency for echocardiograms: Adult and pediatric echocardiograms, including 2-D, M-mode, color Doppler, pulsed wave Doppler, and continuous wave Doppler.
• Applies critical thinking skills to assess the patient condition to provide any additional views that will assist the cardiologist in the care/treatment of the patient.
• Stress echo (exercise and chemical): Performs 2-D imaging at the highest level for the evaluation of wall motion abnormalities. Stress images will include P-LAX, P-SAX, apical 4-chamber, and apical 2-chamber.
• Demonstrates technical proficiency for TEEs. Set up of equipment and all supplies. Assists cardiologist with probe insertion as directed. After probe placement, tape all data as requested. Upon completion of procedure, candidate will immediately clean and disinfect probe according to departmental policy.
• Assists with head up tilt table testing. Responsible for patient preparation to include validating the patient is NPO, patient transport, placement of electrodes, placement of blood pressure cuff and presence of a patent saline lock. If continuous monitoring is required, secures the use of EKG monitoring equipment. If labs are required, candidate will arrange for blood drawing. Candidate will remain with patient at all times and offer assistance under the direction of a RN.
• Maintains all patient reports in accordance with Hospital policy. This includes but is not limited to the following: pulling all previous reports/images; presenting images to the correct reading physician; notifying reading physicians of requests; entering proper patient charges into Meditech; performing database and operating system backup; error log review; Hemodynamic Monitoring system data field modification; and proper storage of archived exam/study data.
• Performs high level disinfection using established policies and procedures as required.
• Takes “Call” as scheduled by the department Director or designee.
• Assists the Cardiology PACS Administrator with disaster recovery procedures for the Image Archive Servers.
• Serves as a resource to physicians and staff for the Cardiology PACS system.
• Orders department supplies as directed and ensures PAR levels are maintained to meet patient needs.
• Supports the mission and vision of the Methodist Healthcare System.
• Completes other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Candidates must be registry eligible for RDCS/RDMS-FE from ARDMS or RCS from CCI and must meet ONE of the following registry eligible provisions:
• Completion of an Associate’s Degree/two year patient-care related allied health education program (diagnostic medical sonographer, radiologic technologist, respiratory therapist, occupational therapist, physical therapist, RN program) AND one (1) year full-time clinical ultrasound/vascular ultrasound experience.
• Graduate of a CAAHEP accredited diagnostic medical sonography, diagnostic cardiac sonography or vascular technology program.
• Bachelor’s degree (or foreign equivalent) AND six (6) months of full-time clinical ultrasound/vascular experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in sonography or vascular technology (or foreign equivalent).
• Current Registered Cardiac Sonographer (RCS) from Cardiovascular Credentialing International (CCI).
• High school graduate/G.E.D. AND two (2) years full-time on-the-job experience in cardiac or vascular ultrasound.
• Graduate of a non-accredited program in Cardiac Medical Sonography that includes a minimum of one (1) year of specialty training (to include 800 clinical hours).

Skills

Requires technical knowledge of diagnostic non-invasive cardiac imaging equipment operation, including proficiency in basic troubleshooting, proper equipment cleaning, storage and maintenance of equipment.

Benefits

Methodist Hospital Westover Hills offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include: Comprehensive benefits for medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health and telemedicine services; Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral services; Time away from work programs for paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence; Savings and retirement resources, including a 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, flexible spending accounts, preferred banking partnerships, retirement readiness tools, rollover support and financial wellbeing counseling; Education support through tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing.

Pay

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Schedule

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