Echocardiographer

at  Hutchinson Clinic

PERFORMANCE MEASURES:

• Perform all duties assigned in a competent and professional manner.
• Remain current in knowledge required to perform assigned duties.
• Maintain a friendly, competent environment for patient testing.
• Maintain a cooperative, helpful working environment within the department, as well as during interactions with other departments.
• Observe all clinic policies and guidelines.
  Qualifications

KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS:

• Experience: Two years to five years experience preferred.
• Education: Graduate of an accredited diagnostic medical ultrasound program.
• Interpersonal Skills: A significant level of trust and diplomacy is required, in addition to normal courtesy and tact. Work involves extensive personal contact with others and/or is usually of a personal or sensitive nature. Work may involve motivating or influencing others. Outside contacts become important and fostering sound relationships with other entities (companies and/or individuals) becomes necessary.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Frequently requires full range of body motion included in handling patients.
• Frequently requires lifting items weighing 35 lbs. or more; sometimes required to help move patients from wheel chairs to tables and back to chairs.

ROLE:

Performs adult echocardiograms, exercise stress echo, and dobutamine stress echo.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Performs echocardiogram, stress echo, dobutamine stress echo.
• Maintains current records for echo-lab certification requirements including study review, technician requirements and the status of Physician compliance.
• Performs related work as required.
• Performs the correct charges before turning them over to coding for billing.
• Maintains education CME’s for Echo registry.
• Ability to navigate the EMR.
• Enter data/demographic information into PACs.