Echocardiograph Technician

WellSpan Health•Chambersburg, PA

About The Position

Under the direction of leadership, the Echocardiograph Technician provides echocardiograms in accordance with established Hospital and Cardiovascular Services policies and procedures. The role performs complete examinations, including standard views from multiple planes, appropriate measurements, and Doppler flows, while ensuring proper patient positioning, transducer selection and placement, and equipment optimization. The technician evaluates and documents test abnormalities, prepares calculations for the interpreting physician, and reports changes in patients’ conditions or behavior. The position also includes preparing patients, rooms, equipment, and supplies; verifying patient identity and procedure orders; explaining procedures; scheduling examinations; entering and correcting orders in EPIC; and following up to ensure images and documentation transfer correctly. The technician supports quality improvement and safety practices, assists coworkers and learners, maintains required credentials and continuing education, and provides professional service to patients, families, and colleagues. This is a full-time day/evening position scheduled for 80 hours biweekly, Monday through Saturday, eight hours per day, with on-call coverage after hours, on weekends, and on holidays.

Requirements

High school graduate or equivalent.
Successfully complete the educational requirements established by the American Registry of Diagnostic Medical Sonographers (ARDMS).
Experience applying customer service behaviors and communication skills.
Excellent working knowledge of cardiac and pulmonary anatomy and pathology, the cardiac patient, and treatment of cardiac diseases.
Credentialed as a Registered Echocardiogram Technician or Registered Diagnostic Cardiac Sonographer (RDCS) by ARDMS, or as a Registered Cardiac Sonographer through Cardiovascular Credentialing International (CCI).
CPR certification.
Maintain continuing education credits required by the registry and renew credentials before their due dates.

Nice To Haves

One year of cardiography experience preferred.

Responsibilities

Maintain a neat, clean, and safe environment for patients and staff, and communicate housekeeping needs.
Follow organizational safety directives and policies, including fire safety, Right to Know (MSDS), HIPAA, emergency preparedness, infection control, life safety, and departmental safety procedures.
Respond to schedule and workload changes, manage priorities, and perform effectively in emergency situations.
Consult with the supervisor about unfinished procedures or rescheduling, and accommodate overtime requirements or changing workplace priorities.
Perform procedures according to departmental policies and procedures, ensuring accuracy and appropriate consideration of patient care.
Participate in quality improvement activities throughout the year.
Wear an identification badge at all times.
Keep patient-care supplies and equipment organized and efficiently stored.
Verify procedure orders using the physician’s orders on the chart or requisition, and verify patient identity according to hospital policy.
Apply age- and population-related physiological and anatomical differences when performing tests.
Explain testing procedures in language patients, family members, or significant others can understand.
Provide professional customer service and assist patients with preparation, including undressing when necessary and providing gowns, sheets, or enclosures to ensure privacy; ask unauthorized individuals to leave the area.
Work independently with little or no direct supervision and seek guidance when needed.
Evaluate, recognize, and document abnormalities in recorded tests.
Establish and administer intravenous contrast in accordance with departmental policy and procedure.
Consult the interpreting physician before performing additional procedures when appropriate, and document the consultation in the record.
Perform complete examinations, including standard views from multiple planes, appropriate measurements, and Doppler flows; properly position patients, select and place transducers, and optimize equipment gain and display settings.
Check Universal Viewer after procedures to ensure correct image and documentation transfer from the modality.
Prepare accurate calculations for the interpreting physician.
Observe, record, and report changes in patient condition or behavior before or after procedures to the physician.
Organize the testing schedule and prioritize STAT, inpatient, and outpatient examinations to accommodate workload.
Prepare patient testing rooms, equipment, and supplies used in procedures.
Place completed tests in the interpreting physician’s reading queue.
Enter orders in EPIC with accurate patient name, medical record number, birth date, ordering physician, and account number; edit order status for billing and amend orders as needed to correct date, procedure, ordering physician, or reason for exam.
Receive requests for echocardiograph procedure scheduling and use the Meditech Community Wide Scheduling system to schedule requests from patients, physician offices, nursing homes, and nursing floors according to departmental guidelines; provide required procedure preparation instructions as appropriate.
Assist coworkers with procedures as assigned and follow directions accurately.
Demonstrate scanning methods, anatomy, and function to students or employees as needed, and work within the Echocardiography student program.
Complete safety and injury reports accurately within 24 hours.
Create a positive experience for patients, families, and coworkers through customer service in daily work.
Maintain registry-required continuing education credits and proactively renew certifications or registrations before their due dates.
Perform other duties as assigned.