05520 WFBMG Wake Forest Health Network: Greensboro Medical Plaza Northwest - Imaging Services
Full time
Yes
40
Schedule Details/Additional Information:
Monday - Friday 8AM-5PM
Pay Range
$38.20 - $57.30
This position is Sign-on Bonus eligible.
Position Highlights:
- Sign on Bonus: This job qualifies for a $15,000 sign on bonus (New Hire), $10,000 sign on bonus (New Grad) provided the candidate meets eligibility requirements.
- Relocation Assistance: Up to $5,000 in Relocation Assistance (for qualified candidates)
- Location: Greensboro, North Carolina
What You'll Need:
- Graduate of an accredited Diagnostic Medical Sonography program and eligible for ARDMS registry that provides minimum of 1 year of clinical scanning.
- ARDMS Registered or ARDMS registry eligible if within 24 months of graduation from an approved sonography program scanning.
- CPR certification
What You'll Do:
- Positioning of patients and proper selection of technical factors and equipment to obtain scans of optimal quality, making use of any necessary immobilization techniques.
- Position, transfer and immobilize patients for procedures, ensuring optimal quality exams are obtained.
- Operate portable ultrasound equipment as required, to perform portable procedures throughout the hospital
- Assist physicians with various recommendations for obtaining optimal studies, by suggesting selections for technical factors for procedures.
- Documentation of Department records (e.g., inventory of supplies, patient statistics) to ensure adequate supplies and proper patient records
- Maintain correct patient records. Assemble daily patient schedules and prepare patient folders, to enable the Department to properly preserve patient records.
- Prepare Ultrasound rooms, ensuring that necessary equipment and supplies are available, before performing procedures
- Know and operate hospital computer systems as required.
- Responsible for securing pertinent medical history from the patient, for each procedure, in order to provide the radiologist with adequate information, before film interpretation
- Obtain pertinent medical history to ensure that the radiologist will have required information, explaining why the diagnostic test is being done.
- Work closely with the radiologist when requested, to ensure an optimal outcome for each procedure.
- Maintain positive attitude when dealing with a patient, fellow employee or any personnel encountered during daily activities.
- Complies with established hospital safety standards, to ensure patient and staff safety at all times.
- Maintain annual CPR certification to further ensure safety of patients in the Department
- Operate all equipment in a safe manner, according to Hospital and Department policies and procedures on safety
- Uses Universal Precautions, protecting self and others from bodily fluid exposure
- Keep abreast of current skills and developments in the field of ultrasound
- Instruct and help students or fellow technologists orienting in ultrasound
This job description indicates the general nature and level of work expected of the incumbent. It is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities required of the incumbent. Incumbent may be required to perform other related duties.
Our Commitment to You:
Advocate Health offers a comprehensive suite of Total Rewards: benefits and well-being programs, competitive compensation, generous retirement offerings, programs that invest in your career development and so much more – so you can live fully at and away from work, including:
Compensation
- Base compensation listed within the listed pay range based on factors such as qualifications, skills, relevant experience, and/or training
- Premium pay such as shift, on call, and more based on a teammate's job
- Incentive pay for select positions
- Opportunity for annual increases based on performance
Benefits and more
- Paid Time Off programs
- Health and welfare benefits such as medical, dental, vision, life, and Short- and Long-Term Disability
- Flexible Spending Accounts for eligible health care and dependent care expenses
- Family benefits such as adoption assistance and paid parental leave
- Defined contribution retirement plans with employer match and other financial wellness programs
- Educational Assistance Program
About Advocate Health
Advocate Health is the third-largest nonprofit, integrated health system in the United States, created from the combination of Advocate Aurora Health and Atrium Health. Providing care under the names Advocate Health Care in Illinois; Atrium Health in the Carolinas, Georgia and Alabama; and Aurora Health Care in Wisconsin, Advocate Health is a national leader in clinical innovation, health outcomes, consumer experience and value-based care. Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, Advocate Health services nearly 6 million patients and is engaged in hundreds of clinical trials and research studies, with Wake Forest University School of Medicine serving as the academic core of the enterprise. It is nationally recognized for its expertise in cardiology, neurosciences, oncology, pediatrics and rehabilitation, as well as organ transplants, burn treatments and specialized musculoskeletal programs. Advocate Health employs 155,000 teammates across 69 hospitals and over 1,000 care locations, and offers one of the nation’s largest graduate medical education programs with over 2,000 residents and fellows across more than 200 programs. Committed to providing equitable care for all, Advocate Health provides more than $6 billion in annual community benefits.