Description
Echo Cardiology Technologist - $15K Sign-on Bonus
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire
Full-Time (30 to 40 hours per week)
***$15,000 Sign-on Bonus***
Up to $3,000 per year tuition reimbursement available.
As the largest private employer in the state of New Hampshire, we provide our employees with an impressive array of benefits - Check out our benefits here!
This position performs basic adult cardiac echocardiogram procedures to include 2-D, M-Mode, Doppler and 3-D Echocardiograms. In training for exercise stress and pharmacological stress echocardiograms and pediatric (congenital) echocardiograms.
Responsibilities
- Performs all basic adult cardiac echocardiogram procedures. Edits tracings, makes measurements and enters data into computer. Distinguishes between normal and abnormal cardiac findings.
- Performs cardiac sonographer duties to meet departmental needs including recognizing arrhythmias and implications of specific cardiac and related diagnoses to obtain optimal studies. Operates complex equipment accordingly.
- Performs adult echoes on-call. Participates in pediatric on-call echoes with the assistance of a pediatric cardiologist.
- Participates in exercise and pharmacologic stress echo training.
- Participates in weekly imaging conference presentation.
- Facilitates patient flow within the section and maintains a pro-active approach in dealing with patient concerns.
- Participates in Quality Assurance and quality control programs.
- Ensures that equipment failures are reported and documented.
Qualifications
- Associates Degree from accredited cardiac ultrasound program or RDCS/RCS-eligible background with 1 year of cardiac echo experience.
- Proficient on all equipment in the lab within the first 3 months of employment.
Required Licensure/Certifications
- ARDMS certification Registered Diagnostic Cardiac Sonographer - Adult Echocardiography (RDCS - AE) or Registered Cardiac Sonographer (RCS) from Cardiovascular Credentialing International.
- Licensed by the Board of Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy in the state of New Hampshire.
- BLS certification required upon hire.
We are a nationally recognized Level-1 Academic Medical Center set right in the middle of the mountains of New Hampshire. We are very confident you will love it here as we have beautiful, rural and suburban housing options, world-class primary, secondary and graduate schools, hundreds of lakes, thousands of miles of hiking trails and some of the best skiing in the country.
To learn more about a position at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center and to apply, please visit: https://dhcareers.org/echo/
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