Hybrid Echo Technician bei Wayne State Physicians

About Us:

Serving one million patients and their families annually. Advancing medical knowledge, technologies and practices. Developing and educating the next generation of exceptional health care professionals.

With more than 100 locations in hospital-based clinics, outpatient health and specialty care centers, we provide the most advanced medicine and thoughtful, patient-centric care to the greater metro-Detroit community.

Job Summary:

Job Description:

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Prepares patients and diagnostic equipment for imaging procedures.
• Performs Echocardiographs per appropriate ECHO orders.
• Assists physicians interpret the data from images and determines which images should be utilized.
• Disperses completed ECHO reports to physicians.
• Documents procedures in EMR.
• Maintains ECHO activity log.
• Quality of ECHO studies.
• Other related assigned duties.

Education, Licensure/Certification, and Training:

• Completion of diagnostic medical sonography from an (ARDMS) accredited program.
• Certified as an ECHO technician required.
• BLS or ACLS Certification required.
• Preferred 1-2 years of experience in ECHO technician role.

Skills and Abilities Required:

• Attention to detail is a must, including identification of the patient, identification of the images and record keeping.
• Ability to work independently with little direction.
• Ability to stand for long period of times.
• Ability to follow written protocols.
• Excellent interpersonal skills necessary to establish and maintain productive working relationships with physicians, patients and their families, and other people both inside and outside assigned clinical area.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Familiarity with exercise and pharmacologic stress testing , strain imaging and 3D imaging preferable

Safety Requirements:

• Compliance with Department Health and Safety policies and procedures

Working Conditions/Schedules:

• 40 hour work week, hours and days to be determined by the business needs of the department.  Additional hours may be required

Wayne Health is an EEO/AA/Veteran/Disability Employer