About This Role
This Sonographer I position at Aurora Sinai involves operating ultrasound equipment to perform general, vascular, and/or cardiac procedures. The role requires accurately differentiating between normal and pathological findings and ensuring patient safety and comfort. It suits a technologist who thrives in a compassionate, welcoming environment with a strong sense of family and a wide variety of engaging cases.
Responsibilities
- Competently operate ultrasound equipment to perform general, vascular, and/or cardiac procedures/studies
- Accurately differentiate between normal and pathologic findings
- Review patient's medical record to obtain necessary clinical information including patient history, lab results, and physician orders
- Obtain necessary clinical information from patients
- Compare requisitions to physicians' orders to ensure exam accuracy
- Position patient and select proper transducer and technical factors for accurate ultrasound procedures
- Adjust factors to attain the appropriate images
- Ensure safety, mental and physical comfort of patient
- Use cognitive sonographic skills to identify, record, and adapt procedures as appropriate to anatomical, pathological, diagnostic information and images
- Accurately identify and label images identifying patient name, medical record unit (MRU) number, and location or position of scan on all images
- Maintain records in accordance with various regulatory agencies
- Enter patient and study information into the radiology information system
- Document billing codes of procedures performed to ensure accurate patient charges
- Identify equipment performance issues and communicate to appropriate staff
- Evaluate new products and equipment for possible future use
- Analyze sonograms, synthesize sonographic information and medical history, and communicate findings to the appropriate physician
- Demonstrate knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of the patients served
- Demonstrate knowledge of the principles of growth and development over the life span
- 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
Requirements
- Medical Sonographer (RDMS) registration with Abdomen issued by the American Registry of Diagnostic Med Sonography (ARDMS) needs to be obtained within 3 months unless department leader has determined it is not required
- Medical Sonographer (RDMS) registration with OB/GYN issued by the American Registry of Diagnostic Med Sonography (ARDMS) needs to be obtained within 3 months unless department leader has determined it is not required
