X-ray/CT cross train opportunity

• JOB PURPOSE OR MISSION** : To perform radiographic exams to include all modalities covered under the staff radiographer's license. To monitor and evaluate patient care quality and efficiency as part of a multi-disciplinary team and appropriate for the age population served, as defined in the department's scope of service.

**PERFORMANCE CRITERIA**

**CRITERIA A: Everyday Excellence Values - Employee demonstrates Everyday Excellence values in the day-to-day performance of their job.**

Performance Standards:

• Demonstrates courtesy and caring to each other, patients and their families, physicians, and the community.
• Takes initiative in living our Everyday Excellence values and vital signs.
• Takes initiative in identifying customer needs before the customer asks.
• Participates in teamwork willingly and with enthusiasm.
• Demonstrates respect for the dignity and privacy needs of customers through personal action and attention to the environment of care.
• Keeps customers informed, answers customer questions and anticipates information needs of customers.

**CRITERIA B: Corporate Compliance - Employee demonstrates commitment to the Code of Conduct, Conflict of Interest Guidelines and the GHS Corporate Compliance Guidelines.**

PERFORMANCE STANDARDS

• Practices diligence in fulfilling the regulatory and legal requirements of the position and department.
• Maintains accurate and reliable patient/organizational records.
• Maintains professional relationships with appropriate officials; communicates honesty and completely; behaves in a fair and nondiscriminatory manner in all professional contacts.

**CRITERIA C: Personal Achievement - Employee demonstrates initiative in achieving work goals and meeting personal objectives.**

PERFORMANCE STANDARDS

• Uses accepted procedures and practices to complete assignments. Uses creative and proactive solutions to achieve objectives even when workload and demands are high.
• Adheres to high moral principles of honesty, loyalty, sincerity, and fairness.
• Upholds the ethical standards of the organization.

**CRITERIA D: Performance Improvement - Employee actively participates in Performance Improvement activities and incorporates quality improvement standards in his/her job performance.**

PERFORMANCE STANDARDS

• Optimizes talents, skills, and abilities in achieving excellence in meeting and exceeding customer expectations.
• Initiates or redesigns to continuously improve work processes.
• Contributes ideas and suggestions to improve approaches to work processes.
• Willingly participates in organization and/or department quality initiatives.

**CRITERIA E: Cost Management - Employee demonstrates effective cost management practices.**

PERFORMANCE STANDARDS

• Effectively manages time and resources
• Makes conscious effort to effectively utilize the resources of the organization — material, human, and financial.
• Consistently looks for and uses resource saving processes

**CRITERIA F: Patient & Employee Safety - Employee actively participates in and demonstrates effective patient and employee safety practices.**

PERFORMANCE STANDARDS

• Employee effectively communicates, demonstrates, coordinates and emphasizes patient and employee safety.
• Employee proactively reports errors, potential errors, injuries or potential injuries.
• Employee demonstrates departmental specific patient and employee safety standards at all times.
• Employee demonstrates the use of proper safety techniques, equipment and devices and follows safety policies, procedures and plans.

**JOB FUNCTIONS**

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS Include, But Are Not Limited To: **1. Performs radiologic procedures in accordance with unit-based standards of practice.**

Performance Standards:

• Moves X-ray equipment into specified position and adjusts equipment controls to set exposure factors, such as time and distance.
• Demonstrates effective knowledge of radiographic exposure techniques and protocols.
• Transfers, positions and instructs patients regarding the procedure.
• Consistently produces film of high technical quality.
• Positions patients and operates equipment to produce most reliable and informational data.
• Transports patient to radiographic room; prepares and maintains room following BRGMC Safety Guidelines.
• Utilizes immobilization devices to obtain optimum views of specific areas of the body while maintaining patient safety and comfort.
• Assesses data reflective of each patient's status and interprets information needed in order to identify each patient's age requirements relative to his or her age specific health care needs.

**2. Demonstrates correct and safe operation of radiographic equipment.**

PERFORMANCE STANDARDS

• Demonstrates compliance with radiation safety procedures — correctly shields patient/techs/visitors.
• Correctly uses monitoring devices.
• Complies with room technique.
• Demonstrates correct preparation and use of contrast media (Oral contrast, IV administration, Lower GI contrast, Retrograde Administration).

**3. Practices effective communication that enhances teamwork and quality of care.**

PERFORMANCE STANDARDS

• Explains procedures to patient to reduce anxiety and obtain patient cooperation.
• Recognizes adverse reactions and responds appropriately through action and communication with other staff and physicians.
• Demonstrates age specific care awareness by communicating at appropriate level of complexity and word choice for the age of patient undergoing procedure.

**4. Conducts CT Scans under the direction of Radiologist.**

Performance Standards:

• Demonstrates correct technique in positioning patients and preparing patients for scan.
• Correctly sets scanning equipment and operates to produce high quality diagnostic data.
• Maintains CT room and equipment.
• Monitors supply inventories and ensures adequate supplies are on hand for upcoming shift.

**5. Maintains standards in accordance with radiation protection.**

Performance Standards:

• Demonstrates capability to perform daily quality control measures and testing
• Maintains proper documentation of quality control measures.

**EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS**

Approved training in computerized tomography preferred.

**SPECIAL SKILL, LICENSE AND KNOWLEDGE REQUIREMENTS**

Current Louisiana licensure to perform in the capacity of radiographer. CT Certification Preferred. National Certification Preferred.

• hipaa Requirements:**

Maintains knowledge of and adherence to all applicable HIPAA regulations appropriate to Job Position including but not limited to: Medical records w/o limitation both paper and electronic, patient demographics, lab and radiology results, patient information related to surgery or appointment schedules, information related to patient location, religious beliefs and/or public health records, medical records related to quality/data, patient financial information and/or 3rd party billing, patient-related complaints.

• safety Requirements:**

Maintains knowledge of and adherence to all applicable safety practices appropriate to Job Position including but not limited to: Incident reporting, handling of wastes, sharps and linen, PPE, exposure control plans, hand washing, environment of care, patient identification, administers/receives/collects meds/blood, orders or products, validates, transports, monitors or observes patients for procedures including infusion pumps, monitors clinical alarms for all ages.

• physical Demands:**

Reference DOT 078.362-026 – RADIOLOGIC TECHNOLOGIST (medical serv.) alternate titles: radiographer; x-ray technologist – STRENGTH: L – Light Work – Exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 pounds of force frequently, and/or a negligible amount of force constantly (Constantly: activity or condition exits 2/3 or more of the time) to move objects. Physical demand requirements are in excess of those for Sedentary Work. Even though the weight lifted may be only a negligible amount, a job should be rated Light Work: (1) when it requires walking or standing to a significant degree; or (2) when it requires sitting most of the time but entails pushing and/or pulling or far or leg controls; and/or (3) when the job requires working at a production rate pace entailing the constant pushing and/or pulling of materials even though the weight of those materials is negligible.

• NOTE** : The constant stress and strain of maintaining a production rate pace, especially in an industrial setting, can be and is physically demanding of a worker even though the amount of force exerted is negligible.

**Requirements**

Xray registered with interest in cross training into CT