Nuclear Medicine Technologist
About The Position
At Tufts Medicine, we want every individual to feel valued for the skills and experience they bring. Our compensation philosophy is designed to offer fair, competitive pay that attracts, retains, and motivates highly talented individuals, while rewarding the important work you do every day. The base pay ranges reflect the minimum qualifications for the role. Individual offers are determined using a comprehensive approach that considers relevant experience, certifications, education, skills, and internal equity to ensure compensation is fair, consistent, and aligned with our business goals. Beyond base pay, Tufts Medicine provides a comprehensive Total Rewards package that supports your health, financial security, and career growth—one of the many ways we invest in you so you can thrive both at work and outside of it. Tufts Medicine is a leading integrated health system bringing together the best of academic and community health care to deliver exceptional, connected and accessible care experiences to consumers across Massachusetts. Comprised of Tufts Medical Center, Lowell General Hospital, MelroseWakefield Healthcare, an expansive home care network and a large clinically integrated physician network, Tufts Medicine has more than 15,000 dedicated employees and caregivers. The health system came together in 2014 to leverage the experience of its member organizations and integrate their missions to together transform the ways that consumers engage with and experience their care.
Requirements
- Strong leadership and teaching skills helpful.
- Ability to stand or walk most of the day with occasional lifting and positioning of adult patients and lead shield (40 lbs.) and pushing of heavy collimators.
- CPR review (pediatrics).
- Demonstrates the knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of the patients served in his/her assigned service area.
- Level of knowledge generally obtained through a Bachelor's Degree in Medical Technology from an accredited college or university, with successful completion of board certification.
- Two to three years experience with extensive nuclear pediatric technology.
- An equivalent combination of education and experience, which provides proficiency in the areas of responsibility listed above, may be substituted for the above education and experience requirements.
Nice To Haves
- Participation in local and/or national technologist/nuclear pediatric organizations desirable.
Responsibilities
- Performs all duties and responsibilities of oversees the Staff Nuclear Medicine Technologist in Nuclear Pediatric, and the technical performance of other staff technologists in this area.
- Prepares, calculates and performs quality control on radiopharmaceuticals for intravenous injection and administers the proper dosage intravenously.
- Records optimum dynamic and static diagnostic images of the target organ utilizing a radioisotope gamma camera and digital computer.
- Coordinates patient flow in the pediatric room, and assumes responsibility for the flexible scheduling of pediatric studies.
- Performs daily quality control of all pediatric related equipment, and assumes responsibility for others’ performance of quality control procedures.
- Processes all nuclear pediatric procedures through the computer which can entail running several programs on each procedure to produce a full patient report with images, graphs and numerical data, and assumes responsibility for the quality of all such images in the cardiac area.
- Updates, on an on-going basis, all cardiac computer programs.
- Maintains the pediatric procedure manual.
- Maintains the pediatric area with proper emergency supplies.
- Trains staff technologists, radiology residents and students in all nuclear ¨ pediatric procedures as outlined above.
- Performs computer librarian work for saving, filing and retrieval of patient exams.
- Participates in research protocols in nuclear pediatric.
- Prepares kits and dispense daily routine and “special” clinical radiopharmaceutical doses for use in Division of Nuclear Medicine.
- Assays and dispense radiopharmaceutical doses for other institutional users.
- Orders special radiopharmaceuticals.
- Performs daily and other mandatory quality assurance procedures in Nuclear Pharmacy.
- Manages the supply of radioactive materials including placement of orders, maintenance of records, storage of materials and control of waste in the Division of Nuclear Medicine.
- Intra-venous and urinary catheter placement for appropriate scans.
- Administers heparin (IV) to keep (IV) access.
- Sends letters to parents explaining procedures.
- Confirms pediatric patients, and answers all parents questions pertaining to the exam.
- Maintains collaborative, team relationships with peers and colleagues in order to effectively contribute to the working groups achievement of goals, and to help foster a positive work environment
- Performs other similar and related duties as required or directed.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
