Nuclear Med Tech, St. Elizabeth's Medical Center, 40 Hours (Days, Weekends Every Third)

Boston Medical Center•Brighton, MA

7h•Onsite

About The Position

Under the direction of a nuclear medicine physician, performs imaging utilizing diagnostic equipment. Performs radio-pharmacy procedures, quality control procedures, and daily monitoring procedures under the nuclear medicine physician according to NRC guidelines. The role involves providing superior customer service, injecting patients with radio-pharmaceuticals, checking paperwork for correct orders, preparing kits and drawing up doses, performing quality control on gamma cameras and other equipment, performing patient imaging (including spect, cardiac, brain, portable, and on-call emergency studies), ensuring correct views and proper labeling of films, managing patient scheduling, utilizing good phone skills, employing proper techniques for moving patients, providing patient care, performing bone density studies, assisting physicians with patient therapy, administering 131I total body drinks, managing the Quality Management Program, ordering and receiving shipments of radioactivity, packing generators, and adhering to NRC rules and regulations. Non-essential functions include ordering supplies, cleaning work areas, rotating shifts, taking call, and packing generators per DOT requirements.

Requirements

Successful completion of Nuclear Medicine School internship.
Massachusetts State License
National Registry ARRT or CNMT

Responsibilities

Provides superior customer service to internal and external clients, customers, and patients as referenced in the Service Excellence Standards.
Injection of patients with radio-pharmaceuticals.
Checking paperwork to insure the test is ordered correctly.
Radio-pharmacy - prepare kits and draw up doses, quality control according to NRC rules and regulations.
Quality Control of gamma cameras.
Daily, weekly, spect Q>C> and assist in quality assurance studies.
Patient imaging - all studies, spect, cardiac, brain, portable and on-call emergency studies.
Correct views done.
Correct films taken - labeled properly.
Paperwork is in order for the physician to read.
Patient scheduling - to insure proper test is ordered with applicable diagnosis - in a timely fashion.
GOOD PHONE SKILLS.
Proper techniques for moving patients.
Patient care, bedpans, emesis basins.
Perform bone density studies.
Assist physician with patient therapy.
Also 131I total body drinks.
Quality Management Program.
Ordering and receiving shipments of radioactivity - packing generator.
Aware of NRC rules and regulations.
Clean-up at the end of the day, monitoring 2 books, patient room if necessary, radio-pharmacy books.
Ordering supplies - gloves, syringes, etc.
Clean work areas, laundry supplies.
Rotate shifts - (7:00 AM - 3:30 PM, 8:30 PM - 5:00 AM, etc.).
Take call.
Packing generator per DOT requirements.