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CARDIAC SONOGRAPHER

Employer
Duke University
Location
Durham

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Job Details

Auto req ID
113948BR
Duke Entity
DUKE HOSPITAL
Job Code
4587 CARDIAC SONOGRAPHER
Job Description
Cardiac Sonographer Duke Hospital in Durham NC. 
Duke Hospital is looking for a Cardiac Sonographer to join our team in the Cardiac Diagnostic Unit/Adult Echocardiography Lab.  Duke employees are part of a premier organization dedicated to excellence in education, research, and patient care.  This is a full time position with rotating call and weekend coverage.  Duke Hospital is located in Durham, NC, centrally located between the beaches and mountains.  

Relocation allowance offered for out-of-state candidates and for eligible in-state candidates living outside of a mileage radius (75 miles) of Duke University Hospital.  
 

Occupational Summary

Perform daily clinical operations of Echocardiography including performing Echocardiograms, entering preliminary interpretation, covering all sites and shifts including call coverage.
Work Performed
Level I

  • Demonstrates proficiency by performing routine and emergency echocardiograms, including but not limited to 2-dimensional, 3- dimensional, Doppler, Transesophageal, and Stress Echocardiogram, as requested by physician and in accordance with standard practices.
  • Provides echocardiography service at all necessary locations, working variable shifts, weekends, and providing emergent call coverage as scheduled.
  • Operate equipment necessary to perform all required procedures and to obtain optimal diagnostic recording; utilize ancillary devices such as selected transducers, digital networking system, off-line analysis systems.
  • Maintain equipment in working order, making minor adjustments and repairs.
  • Perform routine cleaning, preventive maintenance, and report any equipment malfunction to echo lab manager.
  • Analyze patient’s medical record to obtain history of symptoms and necessary information for performance of diagnostic procedures.
  • Prepares preliminary reports for review and interpretation by Cardiologist, including comparison of previous studies.
  • Participate in quality improvement activities; evaluate procedure results for technical quality and accuracy; maintain appropriate logs, files, and records.
  • Review department performance in relation to established goals, implementing changes to effect outcomes.
  • Maintain confidentiality of patients, employees and corporation-related activities.
  • Instruct students, fellows, nurses, or health personnel as requested.
  • Communicates technical and patient care related information according to established processes and timelines.
  • Attends Echo Lab Meetings, participates in Echo related conferences through attendance, ensuring continuing education and professional growth.
  • Cultivates a collaborative and cooperative work environment within department.
  • Level II
  • Actively participates with patient testing, performing routine, non- routine, urgent, and emergent patient requests as described in the Cardiac Sonographer Level 1 job description.
  • Performs advanced cardiac ultrasound services and procedures to patients utilizing independent judgment, with real-time and off-line manipulation of echocardiographic images for capture, display and analysis of echocardiography data.
  • Assists the physician with Echocardiography guided studies to aid them in proceeding with complex procedures to decrease potential associated procedural risks.
  • Acts as a resource and assists Cardiac Sonographers and Cardiology Fellows with pre/post procedures, preliminary review of images obtained and report.
  • Acts as a preceptor by on-boarding Cardiac Sonographers with departmental orientation, in-service and education.
  • Assist in establishing and maintaining department objectives and goals by functioning as a site Charge Sonographer.
  • Support and recommend quality assurance initiatives.
  • Level III
    Clinical Focus
  • Performs advanced cardiac ultrasound services and procedures to patients such as congenital, myocardial mechanics, 3D imaging and stress utilizing independent judgment.
  • Functions as an expert resource, to instruct other cardiac sonographers with in-services and education regarding performance and preliminary interpretation of these procedures.
  • Performs quality assurance to ensure that all the necessary echocardiography data are obtained for the patient on the basis of clinical history and presentation.
  • Formulating and ensuring consistent implementation of exam protocols.
  • Provides in-service education and case reviews for staff cardiac sonographers in collaboration with the Echocardiography Technical Manager concerning new methods and techniques that are to be incorporated into the echocardiography exam.
  • Maintains up to date all laboratory policies and procedures.
  • Collaborates with Technical Manager and Medical Director for review annually, or as necessary for revision of all clinical policies and procedures specific to Echocardiography.
  • Ensures all ICAEL requirements are met and maintained.
  • Staff information, CMEs, policies and procedures, protocols, etc. are updated annually to meet ICAEL requirements.
  • Staff is updated on all ICAEL changes.
  • Organizes and prepares ICAEL application to maintain an accredited status.
  • Education Focus
  • Participates as a Lead Clinical Instructor in the Echocardiography Department.
  • Participates in clinical education for students, residents and/or fellows specifically related to physics and image acquisition. Provides technical assistance in research studies on new echocardiography techniques and technology initiated by Duke, other hospitals and vendors through attending meetings and learning new techniques on acquiring images.
  • Assists Echocardiography Technical Manager with quality measures and outcome data to ensure a high level echocardiography lab.
  • Clinical Lead Focus Supervisory Responsibility-Yes
  • Support for the Echocardiography service when the manager is unavailable.
  • The Clinical Lead is responsible for supervising, directing, coaching, and mentoring their assigned core group of staff.
  • Evaluates staff, provides feedback, documents and directly monitors quality performance at each site.
  • Directs orientation, provides guidance, and constructively influences staff morale.
  • Instruct and educate visiting students, technologists and physicians about our procedures, computers and departmental functions. Provides Echo technical direction/functional advice and direct supervision to staff. Interacts and communicates with physicians, support staff, and other health care professionals to facilitate departmental operations
  • Monitors the status of equipment repairs and preventative maintenance, gathers data on equipment malfunction and associated down time, and documents the effects on patient care.
  • Assures compliance with department and institutional policies, procedures, and regulations.
  • Assist with site specific personnel functions including hiring, annual evaluations, development & implementation of existing departmental policies.
  • Coordinate staff scheduling, and maintain payroll time reports. Communicates information to staff in support management decisions.
  • Assist the Technical Manager in evaluation and selection of capital equipment.
  • Enhance professional growth and development of department staff through leadership participation in educational programs, current literature, in-service meetings and workshops.
  • Maintain working knowledge of resources available to the department and employees in developing work skills, employee benefits, continuing education and assuring that hospital requirements are met.

  • Location
    Durham
    Requisition Number
    401604639
    Position Title
    CARDIAC SONOGRAPHER
    Shift
    Rotating
    Job Family Level
    F2
    Full Time / Part Time
    FULL TIME
    Regular / Temporary
    Regular
    Department Name
    CDU DUKE HOSPITAL CLINIC
    Minimum Qualifications
    Duke University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer committed to providing employment opportunity without regard to an individual's age, color, disability, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or veteran status.
    Duke aspires to create a community built on collaboration, innovation, creativity, and belonging. Our collective success depends on the robust exchange of ideas—an exchange that is best when the rich diversity of our perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences flourishes. To achieve this exchange, it is essential that all members of the community feel secure and welcome, that the contributions of all individuals are respected, and that all voices are heard. All members of our community have a responsibility to uphold these values.
    Essential Physical Job Functions:
    Certain jobs at Duke University and Duke University Health System may include essential job functions that require specific physical and/or mental abilities. Additional information and provision for requests for reasonable accommodation will be provided by each hiring department.Education

    Graduate of an accredited formal Diagnostic Medical Sonography or Cardiovascular Technology Program is required.Experience

    None required beyond above education/certification requirements.

    Level I - Must obtain ARDMS or CCI certifications Echocardiography as required by each entity within 18 months of employment.

    Level II - Minimum of two years' experience as a Sonographer.

    Level III - A minimum of four years' experience (within specialty modality) in which they are seeking promotion.Degrees, Licensures, Certifications

    ARDMS/CCI Certification in Echocardiography.

    Organization

    Read our Diversity Profile History

    Duke University was created in 1924 by James Buchanan Duke as a memorial to his father, Washington Duke. The Dukes, a Durham family that built a worldwide financial empire in the manufacture of tobacco products and developed electricity production in the Carolinas, long had been interested in Trinity College. Trinity traced its roots to 1838 in nearby Randolph County when local Methodist and Quaker communities opened Union Institute. The school, then named Trinity College, moved to Durham in 1892, where Benjamin Newton Duke served as a primary benefactor and link with the Duke family until his death in 1929. In December 1924, the provisions of indenture by Benjamin’s brother, James B. Duke, created the family philanthropic foundation, The Duke Endowment, which provided for the expansion of Trinity College into Duke University.Duke Campus

    As a result of the Duke gift, Trinity underwent both physical and academic expansion. The original Durham campus became known as East Campus when it was rebuilt in stately Georgian architecture. West Campus, Gothic in style and dominated by the soaring 210-foot tower of Duke Chapel, opened in 1930. East Campus served as home of the Woman's College of Duke University until 1972, when the men's and women's undergraduate colleges merged. Both men and women undergraduates now enroll in either the Trinity College of Arts & Sciences or the Pratt School of Engineering. In 1995, East Campus became the home for all first-year students.

    Duke maintains a historic affiliation with the United Methodist Church.

    Home of the Blue Devils, Duke University has about 13,000 undergraduate and graduate students and a world-class faculty helping to expand the frontiers of knowledge. The university has a strong commitment to applying knowledge in service to society, both near its North Carolina campus and around the world.

    Mission Statement

    Duke Science"James B. Duke's founding Indenture of Duke University directed the members of the University to 'provide real leadership in the educational world' by choosing individuals of 'outstanding character, ability, and vision' to serve as its officers, trustees and faculty; by carefully selecting students of 'character, determination and application;' and by pursuing those areas of teaching and scholarship that would 'most help to develop our resources, increase our wisdom, and promote human happiness.'

    “To these ends, the mission of Duke University is to provide a superior liberal education to undergraduate students, attending not only to their intellectual growth but also to their development as adults committed to high ethical standards and full participation as leaders in their communities; to prepare future members of the learned professions for lives of skilled and ethical service by providing excellent graduate and professional education; to advance the frontiers of knowledge and contribute boldly to the international community of scholarship; to promote an intellectual environment built on a commitment to free and open inquiry; to help those who suffer, cure disease, and promote health, through sophisticated medical research and thoughtful patient care; to provide wide ranging educational opportunities, on and beyond our campuses, for traditional students, active professionals and life-long learners using the power of information technologies; and to promote a deep appreciation for the range of human difference and potential, a sense of the obligations and rewards of citizenship, and a commitment to learning, freedom and truth.Duke Meeting

     “By pursuing these objectives with vision and integrity, Duke University seeks to engage the mind, elevate the spirit, and stimulate the best effort of all who are associated with the University; to contribute in diverse ways to the local community, the state, the nation and the world; and to attain and maintain a place of real leadership in all that we do.”

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