Radiology Technologist - Generalist

About the role

Texas Children’s is searching for a Radiology Generalist to join their team. This role requires working in a fast-paced setting where you will integrate scientific knowledge, technical skills, patient interaction, and compassionate care to provide diagnostic information and recognize patient conditions essential for successful procedure completion.

Responsibilities

• Confirms patient identity with approved identifiers
• Affirms factors that may contraindicate the procedure such as medication contraindications, patient risk for reaction to medications, patient history, laboratory results, insufficient patient preparation or artifacts
• Provides information to patients, health care providers, students, and the public concerning the role and responsibilities of individuals in the profession
• Performs routine, portable, STAT, urgent, on-call, and intraoperative diagnostic radiographic and fluoroscopy cases while accurately demonstrating anatomy and pathology through proper diagnostic scanning
• Documents fluoroscopic time and radiation exposure
• Applies patient safety principles during all aspects of radiographic procedures, including assisting and transporting patients
• Reports all equipment issues to Bio-Med as issues are observed and follows up with manager or designee within one hour

Qualifications

• Technical diploma from a formal diagnostic Radiology program required
• R-AART certification from the American Registry of Radiology Technologists required
• CMRT certification from the Texas Medical Board required
• BLS certification from the American Heart Association required