What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sonographer position at Rapid City Medical Center?
Our busy radiology department is currently seeking a part-time Sonographer to join our team! Monday - Friday, 24 hours per week, no weekends, holidays or call!
Who We Are:
Rapid City Medical Center is a physician clinic providing excellence, choice, and patient-inspired care. We focus on building relationships with our patients, regularly connecting as partners on the journey of health. Our physicians use leading-edge technology to augment their medical skills. Ninety physicians and advanced practice providers work together with over 400 employees to make physician and test appointments efficient and effective and insurance interactions workable.
We thrive on working with smart, caring people. What we do is sometimes hard - but we do it because we serve our families, friends, and neighbors in something meaningful. Work-life balance and career satisfaction are important to us. We offer unmatched benefits, competitive wages, and the opportunity to feel great about your job.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
- Perform high quality ultrasound procedures as ordered by a physician.
- Thoroughly explain examination process to patient, all while assisting them throughout the exam to assume appropriate physical positions.
- Select appropriate scan settings on equipment per specifications of examination.
- Obtain essential information from patients regarding medical records and previous scan information for clinical correlation.
- Instruct patients about proper scan preparation and physiological requirements for procedure.
- Help transfer patients to the sonography exam table and ensure adequate patient immobilization to perform the scan.
- Appropriately change scanning parameters to improve scans.
- Obtain diagnostic sonographic images by scanning appropriate body parts with proper transducer.
- Perform examinations on patients of various age ranges, including pediatrics.
- Perform ultrasound exams in complete competency while maintaining professional manners.
- Proficiently work with required computer programs (eClinical Works, PACS, RIS).
- Send reports to requesting physicians outside of Rapid City Medical Center.
- Responsible for the upkeep on ultrasound equipment performance and proper maintenance
- Display a willingness to learn new processes and protocols in addition to Ultrasound responsibilities.
- Help to schedule patients needing Ultrasound exams.
REQUIREMENTS: RDMS registered or registry eligible; CPR certificate maintained.
ENVIRONMENTAL/WORKING CONDITIONS: Varied settings including exam rooms, laboratory, darkroom, ER, operating room. Sometimes works in close quarters. Exposure to communicable diseases, bodily fluids, ionizing radiation and other conditions common to radiology setting.
PHYSICAL/MENTAL DEMANDS: Combination of walking, bending, reaching, lifting, transferring activities. Must be able to use correct body mechanics to assist patients appropriately. Occasional stress from multiple requests.
This description is intended to provide only basic guidelines for meeting job requirements. Responsibilities, knowledge, skills, abilities and working conditions may change as needs evolve.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or veteran status.
