Cardiac Sonographer PRN

Vanderbilt University Medical Center•Nashville, TN

4d•Onsite

About The Position

Vanderbilt Health is the region’s largest comprehensive academic health system, with eight hospitals and over 180 clinics. We are dedicated to providing world-class care, advancing medicine through patient care, education, and research, and fostering a collaborative and supportive community. This role involves acquiring echocardiographic data using transthoracic transducer acquisition under physician supervision. The work includes morphologic imaging, assessing myocardial function, recording hemodynamic parameters, and visualizing blood flow. The position may also involve performing stress echocardiographic testing, contrast imaging, and administering contrast agents, all under physician direction. Allied health professionals are crucial to Vanderbilt Health’s reputation for excellence, providing supportive, diagnostic, and therapeutic healthcare services.

Requirements

Graduate of an approved discipline specific program
Relevant Work Experience
1 year of experience
LIC-Registered Diagnostic Cardiac Sonographer - Licensure-Others

Nice To Haves

Compliance (Novice): Can explain and apply basic statutory instructions in normal situations on the job. Understands the principles upon which the rules and regulations are based. Appropriately escalates problems relating to rules and regulations in timely and effective manner.
Echocardiography Technology (Novice): Possesses sufficient fundamental proficiency to successfully demonstrate echocardiography technology in practical applications of moderate difficulty.
Patient Documentation (Novice): Possesses sufficient fundamental proficiency to successfully demonstrate patient documentation in practical applications of moderate difficulty. Generally works under the direction of others while accomplishing assignments.
Diagnostic Equipment (Novice): Possesses sufficient fundamental proficiency to successfully demonstrate the use of diagnostic tools in practical applications of moderate difficulty.

Responsibilities

Applies broad range of skills to ensure exam is completed timely and meets quality and compliance standards.
Provides appropriate Echo testing process to patients, staff and self according to prescribed safety standards.
Gathers echocardiographic diagnostic images for all patients including the clinically complex patients.
Communicates findings to the Healthcare Team including recognition of abnormal studies.
Assists in the orientation and training of new staff.
Performs echocardiographic data acquisition using transthoracic transducer acquisition with the patient at rest under the supervision and/or direction of a physician.
Performs morphologic imaging, assessment of myocardial function, recording of hemodynamic parameters, and visualization of blood flow.
May perform stress echocardiographic testing under the direction of a physician.
May perform and administer contrast imaging under the direction of a physician.