Ultrasound Technician RVT

Introduction

Last year our HCA Healthcare colleagues invested over 156,000 hours volunteering in our communities. As an Ultrasound Technician RVT with Valley Reg Med Brownsville Alton you can be a part of an organization that is devoted to giving back!

Locations:
This position is at both Free-Standing Emergency Rooms, located in Brownsville – 449 East Alton Gloor Boulevard, Brownsville, Texas, 78526 and Harlingen – 6902 W. Expressway 83, Harlingen, Texas, 78552.

• Comprehensive medical coverage that covers many common services at no cost or for a low copay. Plans include prescription drug and behavioral health coverage as well as free telemedicine services and free Air Med medical transportation.
• Additional options for dental and vision benefits, life and disability coverage, flexible spending accounts, supplemental health protection plans (accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity), auto and home insurance, identity theft protection, legal counseling, long‑term care coverage, moving assistance, pet insurance and more.
• Free counseling services and resources for emotional, physical and financial well‑being
• 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service)
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan with 10% off HCA Healthcare stock
• Family support through fertility and family building benefits with Progyny and adoption assistance.
• Referral services for child, elder and pet care, home and auto repair, event planning and more
• Consumer discounts through Abenity and Consumer Discounts
• Retirement readiness, rollover assistance services and preferred banking partnerships
• Education assistance (tuition, student loan, certification support, dependent scholarships)
• Colleague recognition program
• Time Away From Work Program (paid time off, paid family leave, long‑ and short‑term disability coverage and leaves of absence)
• Employee Health Assistance Fund that offers free employee‑only coverage to full‑time and part‑time colleagues based on income.

Note:

Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.

The Ultra‑sonographer performs a variety of technical procedures that require rational independent judgment, ingenuity, and initiative in performing Ultrasounds and Radiology procedures with basic departmental functions and goals.

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

• Basic Cardiac Life Support must be obtained within 30 days of employment start date.
• (RDMS) Registered Diagnostic Medical Sonographer.
• Must be RVT or RVS – Vascular and other subspecialties are preferred.
• Associate degree required.

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