Senior Sonographer ECHO Weekend Option - Downtown Campus

Position Responsibilities

• Review patient history and determine appropriateness of exam, modify exam protocol to answer specific diagnostic questions.
• Perform complex diagnostic ultrasonography procedures across multiple specialties requiring additional certification.
• Provide preliminary interpretation and statistical information from scans to facilitate final diagnostic report.
• Provide guidance for sonographers who are performing complex procedures and require additional assistance to complete the procedure.
• Independently perform advanced sonography services or other tasks (e.g., interventional procedures, hold transducer etc.) delegated by the supervising physician, consistent with education, training, and facility protocols, policies, and procedures.
• May serve as a clinical technical lead/expert as it relates to their specialty accreditation or regulatory body (i.e.-Joint Commission).
• Demonstrated competence in the specialty area(s).
• Assume responsibility for procedural tasks defined by the medical director during the sonography examination.
• Apply independent, professional, and ethical judgment and assistance in the sonography examination to ensure that appropriate anatomical, pathological, and clinical conditions are accurately captured in the examination images and during procedures.
• Consult with the interpreting physician regarding the ultrasound exam findings.
• Document exam information as required by departmental standards.
• Evaluate images of ultrasound exams and determine if the exam is of diagnostic quality.
• Serve as a resource for sonographers, fellows, residents and students and provide feedback about exam quality.
• Provide ultrasound guidance for providers during intraoperative and invasive procedures.
• Provide information and instructions to patient, patient’s family or others, regarding the nature of requested diagnostic and/or therapeutic procedures.
• Perform patient care techniques including skin preparation, I.V. placement, vital sign monitoring and recording, and basic life support; prepare and administer contrast material to patients.
• Career with University of Iowa Health Care is more than a job. Here, you’re part of something greater, something bigger. Our downtown campus is a 194-bed hospital (located at 500 E Market Street, Iowa City) providing a community-based model of care while directly connected to the expertise, technology, collaboration, and support of our entire health system. Join the team at our downtown campus. You’ll find meaning and purpose knowing that your work helps make all of Iowa better.

Education Requirements

• A Bachelor's degree in Radiation Sciences or other Allied Health Sciences discipline, or an equivalent combination of education and experience; a Bachelor’s degree in Radiation Sciences is highly desirable.
• Extensive (3-5 years) progressively responsible experience in diagnostic medical sonography, diagnostic cardiac sonography, or vascular sonography.
• Certification by the American Registry of Diagnostic Medical Sonographers or other nationally recognized accreditation organizations for primary specialty.
• Excellent written, verbal and interpersonal communication skills.
• Experience providing clinical education to students and sonographers and residents.