Sonographer

Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center • Houston, TX

22h • Onsite

About The Position

Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center is an 1,045 bed facility located in the Texas medical center. A joint venture with Baylor College of Medicine, Baylor St. Luke’s is an internationally recognized leader in research and clinical excellence that has given rise to breakthroughs in cardiovascular care, neuroscience, oncology, transplantation, and more. The hospital is home to the Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, a nationally-accredited and NCI-designated comprehensive cancer center. Our new McNair Campus is designed around the human experience—modeled on evidence-based practices for the safety of patients, visitors, staff, and physicians. The 27.5-acre campus represents the future of healthcare through a transformative alliance focused on leading-edge patient care, research, and education.

As our Sonographer, you will utilize advanced sonographic equipment to record detailed images of blood, organs, tissues, and bodily masses, including unborn fetuses, providing critical visual data for diagnosis and prenatal care.Every day you will directly interact with patients, explaining procedures, answering questions, and preparing them for scans. You will meticulously operate sonographic equipment, adjusting settings and patient positions to ensure clear, diagnostic images. You will monitor and care for patients to ensure their safety and comfort, select and examine images for pathologies, and present preliminary findings to Physicians.To be successful in this role, you will possess excellent patient service and communication skills, sharp eyesight, and meticulous attention to detail. You will demonstrate strong technical proficiency, sound judgment, and advanced decision-making skills to effectively capture and interpret sonographic data, ensuring optimal diagnostic support.

Requirements

• High School Diploma or GED, upon hire
• Registered through the American Registry for Diagnostic Medical Sonography (ARDMS) (acceptable credentials listed below)
• Registered Diagnostic Medical Sonographer
• Registered Diagnostic Cardiac Sonographer
• Registered Diagnostic Cardiac Sonographer Adult Echo
• Registered Diagnostic Cardiac Sonographer Fetal Echo
• Registered Diagnostic Cardiac Sonographer Pediatric Echo
• Registered Diagnostic Medical Sonographer Abdomen
• Registered Diagnostic Medical Sonographer Breast
• Registered Diagnostic Medical Sonographer Fetal Echo
• Registered Diagnostic Medical Sonographer Neurosonology
• Registered Diagnostic Medical Sonographer OB/GYN
• Registered Diagnostic Medical Sonographer Pediatric Sono
• Registered Cardiac Electr
• Registered Cardiovascular Invasive Specialist
• Registered Cardiac Sonographer CCI
• Registered Vascular Specialist
• Registered Vascular Technologist
• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification, issued by the American Heart Association , upon hire

Nice To Haves

• Associates Degree

Responsibilities

• Performs ultrasound exams on patients according to the specific departmental procedure protocols under the direction of the Medical Director
• Prepares equipment ensuring that it is operational, safe and functioning according to diagnostic standards
• Problem‐solves equipment failure and imaging quality and contacts service representative or CES regarding equipment problems
• Ensures that daily equipment and room maintenance are performed before/during/ after each procedure, and that special precautions and measures are performed to ensure infection control standards
• Completes all quality checks and Ensures that equipment logs are maintained
• Completes all clinical supply inventories, ensuring that each diagnostic room is complete with the necessary supplies required to perform the procedure
• Demonstrates competency in PACS process and Performs the daily QA process
• Actively Participates with patient testing, performing routine, non‐routine, urgent, and emergent patient exams.
• Communicates with Patient Transportation, Nursing Units, Physician Offices, and other diagnostic areas to ensure that the patients receive their diagnostic procedures in a smooth, efficient and safe manner
• Performs portable examinations (when applicable) at the bedside to ensure patient safety as well as provide immediate diagnostic testing when needed
• Uses cognitive sonographic skills to identify, record, and adapt procedures as appropriate to anatomical, pathological, diagnostic information and images
• Uses independent judgment during the sonographic exam to Accurately differentiate between normal and pathologic findings
• Analyses sonograms, synthesizes sonographic information with medical history, and communicates findings to the appropriate physician
• Assumes responsibility for the safety, emotional and physical comfort of patients while they are in the sonographers care
• Assists with the daily operations of the ultrasound suite
• Performs clinical assessment and diagnostic sonography examinations
• Maintains a daily log of patient’s seen/ completes exam‐billing forms
• Maintains ultrasound equipment and work area, and Maintains adequate supplies
• Participates in the maintenance of the ultrasound accreditation

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: High school or GED