Ultrasound Technologist RVT

About the Role

As an Ultrasound Technologist at Valley Regional Medical Center - Harlingen, you will perform a variety of technical procedures requiring rational independent judgment, ingenuity, and initiative in Ultrasounds and Radiology procedures, aligned with departmental functions and goals. This position is located at the Harlingen FSED.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrate competency in U/S transducers, including construction, properties, crystal thickness, wavelength, frequency spectrum, resonance, and damping.
• Demonstrate competency in transducers beam configuration, near and far field, focal zone, and beam profile.
• Demonstrate competency in pulse characteristics, pulse repetition frequency, pulse repetition period, and spatial pulse length.
• Demonstrate competency in technical factors for diagnostic quality images, including focal zone, depth, amplitude dynamic range, compression, analog-to-digital converter (ADC), digital-to-analog converter (DAC), brightness, and contrast.
• Demonstrate competency in various display modes, real-time imaging, echogenicity of reflectors, echotextures, and artifacts.
• Demonstrate competency in obstetrics, including first trimester, standard measurements (e.g., heart rate, CRL, MSD), maternal anatomy (uterus, cervix, adnexa), and embryonic anatomy.
• Demonstrate competency in high-risk and complicated pregnancies, including multiple gestations (chorionicity, amnionicity, twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome, conjoined) and fetal biophysical profile.
• Demonstrate accuracy in Meditech training by sending work requests and displaying/printing a variety of reports.
• Demonstrate competency with critical behaviors and age-specific care.
• Demonstrate appropriate equipment disinfection between patients.

Qualifications

• Graduated from an accredited school of Sonography with an Associate degree.
• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification required.
• ARDMS (abdomen) certified.
• RVT or RVS certification (1-year grace period).
• Vascular and other subspecialties are preferred.

Benefits

Valley Regional Medical Center - Harlingen offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career, and retirement of our colleagues. 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.
• Additional benefits for fertility and family building, adoption assistance, life insurance, supplemental health protection plans, auto and home insurance, legal counseling, identity theft protection, and consumer discounts.

About the Organization

Founded as Valley Community Hospital in 1975, Valley Regional Medical Center proudly serves Brownsville, TX, and the surrounding communities in the Rio Grande Valley. The hospital is a licensed 215+ bed facility with over 200 physicians representing 25+ specialties. Services include:

• Emergency medicine and a designated Advanced Level III Trauma Center.
• Advanced Primary Stroke Center.
• Heart and Vascular services, including minimally invasive and open-heart surgery, cardiac cath lab, and heart imaging services.
• Women’s department with labor, delivery, and recovery in a home-like setting, a C-section operating room on standby 24 hours a day, and a Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.

HCA Healthcare, the parent organization, has been recognized as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times and has spent an estimated $3.7 billion in recent years on charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.