Sonographer - Echo and Vascular

Shift

Full-time, Monday-Friday 8am-4:30pm

$50-$60 Echo and Vascular

Provide mobile ultrasound service. Majority of work activity performed in various nursing homes, home care facilities, prisons and processing sites throughout regions serviced by Diagnostic Laboratories traveling in an automobile to the location.

• Login for self-dispatching or call into the dispatch department to obtain information regarding beginning case load.
• Arrive at their first case at the start of their assigned shift or have left their house thirty (30) minutes prior.
• Unload portable sonographic equipment and take into facilities to perform exams ordered by the physician. Must obtain clinically diagnostic, technically competent images.
• Perform and process ultrasounds using portable sonographic equipment and digitally send them to a radiologist for interpretation.
• Check voicemail from each client’s facility upon completion of assigned case(s); or minimally every thirty (30) minutes as necessary.
• Check for available cases via self-dispatching system and/or check in with the dispatcher on duty every thirty (30) minutes as necessary.
• Wear the company uniform, company-provided name tag, and follow company dress code.
• Carry the company-provided phone on his/her person.
• Respond to all urgent communication within fifteen (15) minutes.
• Attend meetings as required.
• Upon arriving at facility, ALL ORDERS MUST BE CHECKED FOR ACCURACY AGAINST THE EXAMS LISTED IN THE PATIENT’S CHART AS ORDERED BY THE PHYSICIAN. If the orders in the chart are different or if there are no orders in the chart, the exam cannot be completed until the appropriate order is documented in the chart to match the exam listed on the requisition.
• The technologist is responsible to ensure they have the correct patient by asking for two patient identifiers, such as their name and date of birth (DO NOT ASK YES/NO QUESTIONS). If the patient is unable to identify themselves, the NURSE IN CHARGE of the patient must identify. The nurse’s name should be documented on the requisition, as well as, in the tech’s comments in the verification screen.
• Facility staff are to conduct any required patient transfers, support, positioning and/or assistance. Technologists are not to engage in these patient transfers, assistance and/or support activities.
• Sonographer must have medical physical examinations and TB screening at time of hire and annually, along with annual infection control in-service. Documentation and/or results of said examinations/tests must be provided to Trident Care Human Resources Department within two (2) weeks of the associate’s date of last annual exam.
• Scan exam related paperwork/billing on a daily basis per protocol.
• Communicate efficiently and perform professionally with call center, dispatch, peers, supervisory staff, and clients.
• Maintain vehicle and sonographic equipment.
• The sonographer maintains a high standard of medical ethics at all times and is self‑motivated to increase the level of understanding and knowledge of the field, disease, and new procedures as they evolve.

• Graduate of an accredited diagnostic ultrasound technology program.
• Maintain required certification and registries, health requirements, and operational requirements. It is the responsibility of the sonographer to provide a copy of such registries and/or diploma to the appropriate Trident Care personnel when requested. Sonographer should carry and be able to provide credentials at all times.
• Sonographer with company owned, leased, or rented vehicles are responsible for paying all motor vehicle tickets, including parking and speeding tickets.
• Sonographer must maintain a valid driver’s license at all times and be able to produce the license on demand. It is the responsibility of the technologists to provide a copy of such licenses(s) and/or certificate(s) to the appropriate Trident Care personnel. All associates are subject to periodic driver’s license checks.
• The consumption of alcoholic beverages, illegal substances or possession of weapons is prohibited as cited in the Associate Handbook.
• Communicate any changes to criminal background and adhere to our…