MDACC-Cardiac Ultrasound Tech - Urgent Hire

Position Title: Cardiac Ultrasound Tech
Location: Houston, Tx
Pay Rate: $47/hr (+benefits)
Assignment Length: 1-year W2 Contract
Schedule: Mon-Fri (730am-5pm)
Industry: Healthcare

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JOB OVERVIEW
Analytical Thinking - Gather relevant information systematically; break down problems into simple components; make sound decisions.
Self-Adaptability - Work in situations involving uncertainty, shifting priorities, and rapid change; deal constructively with mistakes and setbacks; demonstrate flexibility.
Professionalism - Employee demonstrates commitment to collaborative professional relationships with physicians and all members of the heath care team.
Technical/Functional Expertise - Demonstrate technical proficiency required to do the job; possess up-to-date knowledge in the profession; provide technical expertise to others.

Service Orientation
Provide service to our stakeholders, including patients, caregivers, colleagues and each other, in a safe, courteous, accountable, efficient and innovative manner to include:

• Promoting inclusiveness and collegiality that demonstrates respect and professionalism to our stakeholders at all times
• Modeling safe, ethical behavior that mitigates risk to the institution through sound business practices, and adherence to MD Anderson’s Standards of Conduct, institutional policies and procedures
• Responding to requests in a timely manner while proactively communicating expectations for procedures, service arrival, or project deliverables to stakeholders
• Using the steps to HEAL (Hear, Empathize, Address and Learn) the relationship when service recovery is needed

Responsibilities

• Performs all modalities of echocardiography Echocardiographic assessment of 2D, M-Mode, Color flow and continuous wave doppler, Stress echocardiography, Pharmacological stress echocardiography, Transesophageal echocardiograms
• Must be able to analyze patient’s clinical history, identify the purpose of the examination, and expand the examination as necessary to answer the clinical questions
• Performs quantitative analysis of Echocardiographic studies Analysis includes: systolic function (ejection fraction and wall motion analysis), diastolic function, pulmonary pressure, hemodynamic assessment, assessment of valvular abnormalities, changes in gradients, and critical values
• Perform strain of measurements
• Equipment maintenance Prepares equipment for procedures to be performed
• Cleans and disinfects equipment following patient use
• Maintains equipment cleaning logs
• Quality assurance Participates in the collection and documentation of quality assurance information
• Reports critical values immediately once identified
• Perform high level disinfection off TEE probes Participates in the disinfection of TEE probes according to vendor recommendations

Minimum Qualifications

• Education: High school diploma or equivalent
• Preferred Education: Technical School
• Certification: (All of the following:)
  • Certified in Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)
  • Registered Diagnostic Cardiac Sonographer (RDCS) through American Registry of Diagnostic Medical Sonographers (ARDMS) -OR- Registered Cardiac Sonographer (RCS) through Cardiovascular Credentialing International (CCI)
• Experience: Two years’ experience performing echocardiography testing
• Onsite Presence: Is Required

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