CT Technologist

BHS•Paducah, KY

1d•Onsite

About The Position

With limited supervision, executes computed tomography and radiographic images. Gathers histories and prepares needed information to complete the patient’s record. Notifies appropriate persons for equipment services and preventive maintenance. Order and stock supplies. Baptist Health is a full-spectrum health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves. The Baptist Health family consists of 10 hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 470 points of care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices and services, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness centers, and occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics. Baptist Health’s eight owned hospitals include more than 2,300 licensed beds in Corbin, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Richmond and New Albany, Indiana. Baptist Health also operates two joint venture hospitals: the 410-bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana, and the Baptist Health Rehabilitation Hospital, a 40-bed inpatient rehabilitation facility with Encompass Health, based in Birmingham, Alabama. Baptist Health employs more than 24,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states. Baptist Health is the first health system in the U.S. to have all of its hospitals recognized by the American Nursing Credentialing Center with either a Magnet® or Pathway to Excellence® designation for nursing excellence. Baptist Health’s employed provider network, Baptist Health Medical Group, has more than 1,820 employed providers offering care in 78 specialties, including approximately 862 physicians and 958 advanced practice clinicians. Baptist Health’s physician network also includes more than 2,000 independent physicians.

Requirements

Completion of an accredited education program in Imaging Sciences
Active KBMIRT required at time of hire
ARRT registered in Radiography
Registry eligible candidates are required to obtain CT certification within one year of employment

Nice To Haves

AART CT registry

Responsibilities

Produces quality images for Radiologist’s review.
Prepares accurate records and verifies orders in chart.
Manipulates computerized image data to obtain interpretive information and archiving.
Administers contrast media under the direction of a physician and in accordance with department policy.