Sonographer Weekend Package Nights

Sign-on Incentives

Sign-on incentives are now available—starting at $10,000. Relocation assistance may be available based on your location.

Benefits

MercyOne offers a comprehensive benefits package designed to support you in every stage of life, including:

• Health and Wellness: Personalized health insurance plans (including dental and vision coverage, available from Day 1), wellness programs, and life insurance coverage.
• Financial Security: Education reimbursement, 403b retirement plan with company match, and long- and short-term leave options.

Shift

Night shift with weekend package.

What You Will Do

• Perform quality ultrasound procedures by utilizing proper positioning skills and technical factors, as well as a knowledge of anatomical structures pertinent to the patient population of infants to geriatrics.
• Perform clinical assessment and diagnostic sonography examinations.
• Educate patients of exams being performed and obtain consent to perform procedure when necessary.
• Practice proper safety in accordance with established standards.
• Utilize critical thinking in daily and emergent assessment of proper protocols.
• Assess each patient for proper preparation and scanning protocol for each ordered exam.
• Follow protocols that have been established for the Ultrasound Department.
• Observe safety precautions when handling patients, while performing examinations and while patients are in direct contact.
• Operate 2D, M-mode, and Doppler ultrasound unit with appropriate transducers to perform and adequately ascertain the location of specific organs, with the demonstration of recorded images which reflect the appropriate calculations for accurate measurements.

Qualifications

• Must be registered with the American Registry of Diagnostic Medical Sonographers (ARDMS) with one of the following: Registered Diagnostic Medical Sonographer (RDMS), Registered Diagnostic Cardiac Sonographer (RDCS), Registered Vascular Technologist (RVT), or Registered Musculoskeletal Sonographer (RMSKS).
• If not registered, be board-eligible and become registered with ARDMS within one year of hire.
• Maintain active registry status with ARDMS (30 CMEs every 3 years / annual payment).
• Child and Dependent Adult Abuse Mandatory Reporter Training is required within six (6) months of hire and every three (3) years thereafter.
• Basic Life Support (BLS) required within 30 days of hire and every two (2) years thereafter.

Ministry/Facility Information

MercyOne Northeast Iowa provides expert health care to eight counties, with 491 licensed beds between three medical centers—MercyOne Waterloo Medical Center (Area Level III Trauma Center and accredited chest pain center), MercyOne Cedar Falls Medical Center (Community Level IV Trauma Designation), and MercyOne Oelwein Medical Center (Community Level IV Trauma Designation). With more than 2,500 colleagues, MercyOne is one of the largest employers in Northeast Iowa. MercyOne Medical Group – Northeast Iowa is made up of more than 30 primary care, pediatric, internal medicine and specialty clinics located throughout Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan, Benton, Butler, Fayette and Tama counties.