Sonographer - 28 Hour Week - Days
- Omaha, NE
- Permanent
- Full-time
At Nebraska Methodist Health System, we focus on providing exceptional care to the communities we serve and people we employ. We call it The Meaning of Care – a culture that has and will continue to set us apart. It’s helping families grow by making each delivery special, conveying a difficult diagnosis with a compassionate touch, going above and beyond for a patient’s needs, or giving a high five when a patient beats a disease or conquers a personal health challenge. We offer competitive pay, excellent benefits and a great work environment where all employees are valued! Most importantly, our employees are part of a team that makes a real difference in the communities we live and work in.Job Summary: Location: Nebraska Methodist Hospital
Address: 8303 Dodge Street, Omaha, NEWork Schedule: Day Shift, Thursday-Saturday. 2x8 hour shifts and 1x12 hour shift per week. 28 hour work week. Oncall required at Women's Hospital.Benefits Eligibility: This position is eligible for full time benefits.Provide diagnostic patient care services using ultrasound and related diagnostic procedures.Responsibilities:Essential Job FunctionsExam performance/quality.
- Identifies each patient by ID band verification and birth date.
- Ensures patient understanding of pending procedure.
- Cover appropriate body parts and position patient correctly.
- Follows appropriate guidelines and departmental protocols.
- Performs exams as priority dictates and as directed.
- Critiques each exam for technical and positional accuracy and makes appropriate corrections if necessary.
- Follows American College of Radiology (ACR) guidelines.
- Check all films with Radiologist and discuss end results.
- Review orders for clinical and demographic consistency and verifies accuracy prior to exam.
- Willfully assists physicians, patients, and coworkers as needed and seeks opportunities to provide patient care.
- Understand and support the direction and workflow of the department.
- Maintain awareness of ongoing exams and assist co-workers as needed.
- Provide exam information and status updates to pertinent staff members.
- Relieves co-workers from procedures/exams as necessary.
- Be in the department and ready to work at the start of scheduled shift.
- Have processes set in place to allow for leaving at the end of scheduled shift.
- Obtain and consolidate all images, reports and history with completed exam information for review.
- Take call. Coordinates inpatient procedure flow. (Hospital Only)
- Provides management of ultrasound department workflow and patient exam flow.
- Be willing and able to fill in shifts or trade days when needed at anytime.
- Heightened focus on efficiency.
- Maintain a working knowledge of Cerner.
- Starts and completes own exams correctly and in a timely manner.
- Consistently uses the Online Worklist to monitor orders and order status.
- Verify correct images matched with order.
- Demonstrates knowledge of RIS/PACS/Navicare/Outlook/Angel/mhsintranet/Nighthawk.
- Consistently uses Exam Management for order modification, to document comments and film usage/repeats.
- Show a working knowledge of Folder Media and Order View/Entry capabilities.
- Consistently uses Film Tracking to document the movement of the films throughout their usage.
- Show a working knowledge of Order View/Entry capabilities.
- Maintain working knowledge of Outlook and mhsintranet.
- Able to perform clean up functions on PACS workstation.
- Maintain Working knowledge of Navicare.
- Maintain working knowledge of Nighthawk.
- Ensures proper patient identification on all images to comply with department policies and procedures.
- Willingly seeks opportunity to provide patient care, or assist others as needed.
- Demonstrates knowledge of department guidelines through responsible behavior/actions.
- Maintains updated ARDMS license.
- Ensures that call reports and/or other specifications are followed through.
- Report issues/concerns as soon as possible and provide assistance with resolution/follow-up.
- Provides and monitors “on the job training” per Methodist College standards.
- Maintains professional and courteous relationship with students and instructors.
- Provide leadership and guidance for students' education clinical experience.
- Maintains patient confidentiality coinciding with HIPAA.
- Maintain student/co-worker confidentiality coinciding with FERPA.
- Provides appropriate patient care.
- Shows confidence and competency in all age specific categories.
- Ensures patient comfort and understanding of ordered exam.
- Completed age specific evaluation.
- Actively participates to perfect customer service and communication by building a great team system.
- Talking to others to convey information effectively with respect, empathy, and compassion.
- Gives full attention to what other people are saying, asking questions as appropriate to better understand what is happening.
- American Registry for Diagnostic Medical Sonography (ARDMS) registered or board eligible required.
- Graduation from an accredited Ultrasound Technology program required.
- Participation in mandatory inservices and continuing education as mandated by policies & procedures, and as directed by supervisors.
- One year general and vascular Sonography preferred.
- Current American Heart Association or American Red Cross Basic Life Support (BLS) strongly preferred at time of hire, required within 3 months of hire.
- Registered Diagnostic Medical Sonographer (RDMS) through the American Registry for Diagnostic Medical Sonography registered or board eligible required.
- Registered Diagnostic Medical Sonographer (RDMS) credential is required within one year of employment.
- Registered Diagnostic Medical Sonographer (RDMS) credential of the Abdomen (AB) and Obstetrics & Gynecology (OB/GYN) are preferred.
- Ability to effectively communicate and interact with patients and family members as well as hospital personnel and coworkers required.
- Ability to effectively organize work in order to perform several tasks at once required.
- Must be able to follow established Universal Standard and Radiation Safety precautions.
- Position requires flexibility to accommodate fluctuation in daily schedule, including but not limited to overtime, irregular hours or on-call responsibilities.
- Medium Work - Exerting up to 50 pounds of force.
- Not necessary for the position (0%):
- Climbing
- Crawling
- Occasionally Performed (1%-33%):
- Distinguish colors
- Kneeling
- Sitting
- Frequently Performed (34%-66%):
- Balancing
- Carrying
- Crouching
- Grasping
- Keyboarding/typing
- Lifting
- Pulling/Pushing
- Reaching
- Repetitive Motions
- Speaking/talking
- Standing
- Stooping/bending
- Twisting
- Walking
- Constantly Performed (67%-100%):
- Hearing
- Seeing/visual
- Not Related:
- Chemical agents (Toxic, Corrosive, Flammable, Latex)
- Explosives (pressurized gas)
- Electrical Shock/Static
- Radiation Alpha, Beta and Gamma (particles such as X-ray, Cat Scan, Gamma Knife, etc)
- Radiation Non-Ionizing (Ultraviolet, visible light, infrared and microwaves that causes injuries to tissue or thermal or photochemical means)
- Mechanical moving parts/vibrations
- Rare (1-33%):
- Biological agents (primary air born and blood born viruses) (Jobs with Patient contact) Blood or Body Fluid (BBF)
- Physical hazards (noise, temperature, lighting, wet floors, outdoors, sharps) (more than ordinary office environment)
- Occasionally (34%-66%):
- Equipment/Machinery/Tools