Sonographer - Weekend Program

Join Our Team at Aurora St. Luke's Medical Center
Aurora St. Luke's Medical Center is a 938-bed, award-winning hospital recognized as a Best Hospital in the Milwaukee Area by U.S. News & World Report . We are seeking a

Sonographer

to join our high-performing Imaging team in a fast-paced, advanced clinical environment.

Our department is an ideal setting for Sonographers who thrive on variety and challenge while also having the opportunity to mentor future professionals. You'll work alongside a strong, supportive team in a busy but highly collaborative environment.

Why St. Luke's?
Level II Trauma Emergency Department
Level I Stroke Center
ACE Accredited for Cardiovascular Excellence
Opportunities for professional growth and advanced clinical experience
Clinical teaching site for the St. Luke's School of Diagnostic Medical Sonography

Position Highlights
Weekend Program:
Friday, Saturday, Sunday 9:00 AM - 9:30 PM
Weekend Program and shift differential
Holiday rotation required
$6,000 sign-on bonus
Benefits starting on day one
Tuition reimbursement and student loan repayment assistance

Join a team where you can grow your expertise, make a meaningful impact, and be part of a nationally recognized organization committed to excellence in patient care.
Major Responsibilities:
Proficiently operates ultrasound equipment to perform general, vascular and/or cardiac procedures/studies. Accurately differentiates between normal and pathologic findings.
Reviews patient's medical record to obtain necessary clinical information including patient history, lab results, and physician orders, obtains necessary clinical information from patients, and compares requisitions to physicians' orders to ensure exam accuracy.
Positions patient and selects proper transducer and technical factors for accurate ultrasound procedures. Adjusts factors to attain the appropriate images. Ensures safety, mental and physical comfort of patient.
Uses cognitive sonographic skills to identify, record, and adapt procedures as appropriate to anatomical, pathological, diagnostic information and images.
Accurately identifies and labels images identifying patient name, medical record unit (MRU) number, and location or position of scan on all images.
Maintains records in accordance with various regulatory agencies and enters patient and study information into the radiology information system, and documents billing codes of procedures performed to ensure accurate patient charges.
Identifies equipment performance issues, communicates to appropriate staff, and evaluates new products and equipment for possible future use.
Analyzes sonograms, synthesizes sonographic information and medical history, and communicates findings to the appropriate physician.
Serves as a technical resource, role model and/or preceptor for students and staff. Acts as a resource to staff at own facility and throughout the system.
Participates in a quality improvement, patient safety or cost containment project/initiative either at a site, market or system level and in the achievement/maintenance of laboratory accreditation.
Must be able to demonstrate knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of the patients served. Must demonstrate knowledge of the principles of growth and development over the life span and possess the ability to assess data reflective of the patient's status and interpret the appropriate information needed to identify each patient's requirements relative to his/her age-specific needs, and to provide the care needed as described in the department's policies and procedures.

Age-specific information is developed further in the departmental job standards.

Licensure, Registration, and/or Certification

Required:

Medical Sonographer (RDMS) registration…