Job Description
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Receives patients, explains procedures, and answers all patient questions and/or concerns pertaining to exam.
- Monitors and assist patients, before, during and after the examinations.
- Provides first aid and/or CPR to patients when necessary.
- Transports patients as needed.
- Performs as scrub technician in special procedures.
- Performs a variety of special imaging examinations using established or dictated protocols.
- Reconstructs images, archives and transfers information to the CR/Client system, films and processes films using automatic film processor and/or laser camera.
- Operates imaging and other related equipment according to manufacturer s specifications.
- Assists radiologists in performing a variety of imaging examinations using sterile techniques.
- If certified may place PICC lines in Interventional lab under the direction of a physician.
- Complete appropriate orders in RMS in a timely manner.
- Ensures proper order entry, to include correcting orders in SMS (POETS) and/or RMS.
- Perform quality control and maintain pertinent local, state, and federal records as applicable to different sections.
Education, Experience and Certification/ Licenses:
- Completion of AMA-sponsored School of Radiologic Technology
- 3 years’ experience as radiology technologist
- ARRT Registration and/or RCIS required.
- Current BLS certification.
- Other license/certification as required by specialty.
- Associates must comply with the ARRT Rules and Regulation and the ARRT Standards of Ethics.
- BLS, ACLS required.
- The technologist must be proficient in all the areas of general diagnostic radiology, neuro and vascular interventional examinations in accordance with established protocols, as directed by the attending radiologist.
- These functions are performed in accordance with all applicable laws and regulations.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Applies knowledge of growth and development over the lifespan.
- Applies the knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of the patients served on his/her assigned unit.
- Assesses data reflective of each patients status and interprets information needed to identify each patient s age requirements relative to his/her age-specific healthcare needs.