Echocardiographer PRN

Company: HCA Healthcare
Location: Pearland
Posted on: January 20, 2023

Job Description:

Description IntroductionDo you have the PRN career opportunities as an Echocardiographer PRN you want with your current employer? We have an exciting opportunity for you to join HCA Houston Healthcare Pearland which is part of the nation's leading provider of healthcare services, HCA Healthcare.BenefitsHCA Houston Healthcare Pearland, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

• Comprehensive medical coverage that covers many common services at no cost or for a low copay. Plans include prescription drug and behavioral health coverage as well as telemedicine services and free AirMed medical transportation.
  
  
• Additional options for dental and vision benefits, life and disability coverage, flexible spending accounts, supplemental health protection plans (accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity), auto and home insurance, identity theft protection, legal counseling, long-term care coverage, moving assistance, pet insurance and more.
  
  
• Fertility and family building benefits through Progyny
  
  
• Free counseling services and resources for emotional, physical and financial wellbeing
  
  
• Family support, including adoption assistance, child and elder care resources and consumer discounts
• 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service)
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
  
  
• Retirement readiness and rollover services and preferred banking partnerships
  
  
• Education assistance (tuition, student loan, certification support, dependent scholarships)
  
  
• Colleague recognition program
  
  
• Time Away From Work Program (paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence)
  
  Learn more about Employee BenefitsNote: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.
  
  Our teams are a committed, caring group of colleagues. Do you want to work as an Echocardiographer PRN where your passion for creating positive patient interactions are valued? If you are dedicated to caring for the well-being of others, this could be your next opportunity. We want your knowledge and expertise!Job Summary and QualificationsThe Echo Technician knows the meaning of medical prescriptions pertaining to Echocardiography. Technician transports patients, distributes final reports and maintains data management system for tests. Perform Echoes, imaging, dobutamine tests and other cardiology tests. The echo technician will be cross-trained to other areas like EKG, Holters, Stress testing, and some other duties as assigned by the department director. The Echo technician will carry a beeper to ensure services are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Communicates effectively with other members of the department as well as other departments.
  Duties & Responsibilities:
• Demonstrates competency in U/S transducers, construction and properties, crystal thickness, wavelength, frequency spectrum, resonance, damping.
• Demonstrates competency in transducers beam configuration, near and far field, focal zone, beam profile.
• Demonstrates competency in pulse characteristics, pulse repetition frequency, pulse repetition period, and spatial pulse length.
• Demonstrates competency in technical factors for diagnostic quality images, focal zone, depth, amplitude dynamic range and compression, analog-to-digital converter (ADC), digital-to-analog converter (DAC), brightness, contrast.
• Demonstrates competency in various display modes, real-time imaging, and echognicity of reflectors, echo textures, and artifacts.
• Demonstrates competency in obstetrics, first trimester, standard measurements (e.g. heart rate, CRL, MSD), maternal anatomy (uterus, cervix, and adnexa), and embryonic anatomy.
• Demonstrates competency in high risk and complicated pregnancy, multiple gestations (chorionicity, amnionicity, and twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome, conjoined), fetal biophysical profile.
• Demonstrates accuracy in Meditech training by: sending work request, display and printing a variety of reports.
• Demonstrates competency with critical behaviors and age specific care.
• Demonstrates appropriate equipment disinfection between patients.What qualifications you will need:
  
  • High school diploma or GED preferred.
  • College degree is preferred but not required.
  • Must be registered in ONE of the following: ARDMS; CCI; RVS; RCS; Diagnostic Medical Sonographer
  • Current BCLS
  • Hands on training required.
  • Continuing education courses or courses of further documented training are required.This role requires you to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 based on local, state and /or federal law or regulations (unless a medical or religious exemption is approved).As the first hospital in Pearland, Texas, HCA Houston Healthcare Pearland is proud to provide healthcare resources to the south Houston communities. Our 50+ bed hospital isn't just a neighborhood hospital, but we are an exceptional full-service hospital that happens to be in your neighborhood. Our hospital provides expert emergency care, breast cancer screening, and cardiology services. Our emergency department provides fast and effective care, our women's diagnostic imaging center provides full-service mammogram procedures, including diagnostic and 3D mammograms, for effective breast cancer screening, and our cardiology team is home to some of the top Houston cardiologists. HCA Houston Healthcare Pearland aspires to connect with each one of our patients to build a network of caring individuals. We are members of HCA Houston Healthcare, the most comprehensive family of hospitals in the region and part of the leading provider of healthcare in the country, HCA Healthcare. Together we are stronger, smarter and more accessible in providing the patient-centered care you need close to home.
    HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World's Most Ethical Companies by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.
    "Bricks and mortar do not make a hospital. People do."- Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr.
    
    HCA Healthcare Co-Founder If you are looking for an opportunity that provides satisfaction and personal growth, we encourage you to apply for our Echocardiographer PRN opening. We review all applications. Qualified candidates will be contacted for interviews. Unlock the possibilities and apply today!We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status

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