Job Description

Integrated Healthcare Services is seeking a travel Echo Technologist for a travel job in Peoria, Illinois.

Job Description & Requirements

• Specialty: Echo Technologist
• Discipline: Allied Health Professional
• Duration: 13 weeks
• 40 hours per week
• Shift: 8 hours, days
• Employment Type: Travel

Job Description: 
To provide high quality ultrasound images of the heart and great vessels for adult patients, technical assistance with exercise and non-exercise stress testing, and to handle other duties as required or assigned.

Job Responsibilities: 
-Performs high quality two-dimensional ultrasound studies of the heart and great vessels, along with identifying EKG abnormalities and/or arrthymia.
-Utilizes knowledge of age specific needs of patients in performance of everyday duties and responsibilities.
-Understands complimenting imaging and/or doppler techniques, including when to use these methods to investigate specific clinical questions.
-Demonstrates use of M-Mode technique for measuring the cardiac dimensions at precise times of the cardiac cycle.
-Estimates the severity of the valvular insufficiencies by mapping the dimensions, orientation, and directions of the regurgitant jet with the color flow doppler.
-Asses the blood flow through the heart, including increased velocities, stenosis, regurgitation and shunts with the pulsed and continuous-wave doppler.
-Uses contrast echocardiography in cases where two-dimensional and color flow are suboptimal.
-Evaluates left and right ventricular systolic and diastolic functions and documents wall motion abnormalities.
-Recognizes rare, common, simple and complex congenital heart malformations, acquired pathologies, possible outcomes of palliative and corrective surgical procedures.
-Completes the study according to updated protocols, recognizes the needs and presents additional views, calculations and measurements when necessary.
-Correlates clinical history with exam to be performed and consults with the cardiologist for clarification.
-Monitors, records, charges and communications appropriately utilizing computerized documentation system.
-Prepares, instructs, assists the patients, and produces the images in a timely manner for dobutamine and exercise stress echocardiograms.
-Assists the cardiologist in performing transesophageal echocardiograms (TEE).
-Communicate results to the cardiologist and respond to possible questions and concerns in a timely manner.
-Maintains monthly correlation studies and monthly statistics.
-Demonstrates the ability to troubleshoot and report equipment failure.
-Participates in mobile echo/vascular service regionally.
-Participates in callback rotation.
-Assists in performing functional, pharmacological cardiolite, and echocardiography stress testing.
-Documents procedures correctly.
-Accurately assesses the patients and their physical ability to perform the tests.
-Accurately interprets and clarifies physician's orders.
-Provides thorough assessments of a patient in a crisis, then notify the physician when necessary.
-Displays proficiency in knowing lethal arrhythmias.
-Completes quarterly competency in stress lab, holter monitoring and event monitoring.

**See SKills Section for Job Description**

RightSourcing IHS Job ID #3-36301358. Pay package is based on 8 hour shifts and 40 hours per week (subject to confirmation) with tax-free stipend amount to be determined.

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