Echo Tech

• Shift: Evenings:8 hours Monday to Friday 40 hours/week
  
• Work Location: Onsite; Palo Alto CA
  

• Assume responsibility for the safety of the patient during the sonographic examination.
  
• Review patient medical history and supporting clinical information. Ensure that the sonography examination order is complete contains relevant information and meets the standard of medical necessity .
  
• Evaluate any contradictions insufficient patient preparation and the patient s inability or unwillingness to tolerate the examination and associated procedures.
  
• Communicate with the patient in a manner appropriate to the patient s ability to understand. Use proper patient positioning tools devices equipment adjustment and ergonomically correct scanning techniques to ensure patient comfort and safety and to prevent compromised data acquisition and musculoskeletal injury to the sonographer.
  
• Conduct patient clinical assessment and perform the diagnostic medical sonography examination ordered by the supervising physician in accordance with professional and facility protocols.
  
• Apply independent professional ethical judgment and critical thinking to safely perform diagnostic sonography procedures. Apply independent judgment during the sonography examination to ensure that appropriate anatomical pathological and clinical conditions are accurately captured in the examination images.
  
• Except as authorized by written facility policies and procedures refer specific diagnostic treatment or prognosis questions to the appropriate physician or healthcare professional.
  
• As necessary acquire additional ultrasound imaging to facilitate optimum diagnostic results for the interpreting physician.
  
• Identify and document any limitations to the sonography examination.
  
• Review examination images synthesize examination results and prepare the preliminary findings.
  
• Equipment Use and Maintenance
  
• Perform quality control procedures to ensure that the ultrasound equipment operates at optimal levels.
  

Requirements

• Requirement met by License/Certification Requirement.
  

• BLS Basic Life Support
  
• And one of the following certifications RDCSRegistered Diagnostic Cardiac Sonographer or
  
• RDCSRegistered Diagnostic Cardiac Sonographer or CCICardiovascular Credentialing International
  
  

• Two (2) years of progressively responsible and directly related work experience
  
  

Benefits

• Dental insurance
  
• Health insurance
  
• Vision insurance
  
• 401(k)