Job Description

Job Description

Grow your career at Cedars-Sinai!

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center has been named to the Honor Roll in U.S. News & World Report?s "Best Hospitals 2024-2025" rankings . When you join our team, you?ll gain access to our groundbreaking biomedical research facilities and sophisticated medical education programs. We offer learning programs, tuition reimbursement and performance-improvement projects so you can achieve certifications and degrees while gaining the knowledge and experience needed to advance your career.

We take pride in hiring the best, most hard-working employees. Our dedicated doctors, nurses and staff reflect the culturally and ethnically diverse community we serve. They are proof of our dedication to creating a dynamic, inclusive environment that fuels innovation and the gold standard of patient care we strive for.

What will you be doing:

The Cardiac Sonographer Level I, supports patient care by performing echocardiogram procedures as directed by the physician.  Demonstrates proficiency with the use of ultrasound equipment and associated procedures.  This position performs routine administrative and clinical tasks to keep the offices of physicians and other health practitioners running smoothly.

• Uses appropriate techniques with ultrasound equipment to supply diagnostic studies based upon physician request.
• Performs a variety of technical procedures to support physician?s diagnosis.
• Responsible for providing high quality imaging.
• Appropriately acquire echocardiographic measurements per protocol, create digital preliminary reports for the interpreting physician, and verbally communicate preliminary findings to the interpreting physician.
• Reviews physician order to verify appropriateness for order being performed.
• Retrieve studies from PACS for review.
• Follow standardize work practices.
• Perform appropriate infection control processes.
• Provide an environment of care that supports patient safety.
• Addresses patient educational needs as pertains to requested studies.
• Prepare patients for the study.
• Supports IAC Standards and Guidelines.
• Assures accuracy data for clinical reports, demographics and billing information for physician reports.
• Support team approach and service focus work with colleagues in a "team approach" to encourage a positive and service-oriented image for the department.

Qualifications

Experience Requirements:

One (1) plus years? experience as an Ultrasound (Cardio Sonographer) Technician in a clinical setting (preferred).

Educational/Certification/License Requirements:

High School Diploma/GED.

Vocational/Technical Diploma (Ultrasound Program) from a CAAHEP.

Basic Life Support (BLS) certification issued by the American Heart Association (AHA).

Registered Diagnostic Cardiac Sonographer (preferred).

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Req ID : 8354

Working Title : Cardiac Sonographer I (Per Diem) - 8-Hour Day Shift

Department : Univ Cardiovascular Med Group

Business Entity : Cedars-Sinai Medical Care Foundation

Job Category : Imaging

Job Specialty : Diagnostic Imaging

Overtime Status : NONEXEMPT

Primary Shift : Day

Shift Duration : 8 hour

Base Pay : $37.49 - $58.11

About Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Providing healthcare for more than 100 years, Cedars-Sinai has evolved into one of the most dynamic and highly renowned medical centers in the world. Along with caring for patients, Cedars-Sinai is a hub for biomedical research and a training center for future physicians and other healthcare professionals. This attracts exceptional talent to Cedars-Sinai, including world-renowned physician-scientists who seek a place where they can both conduct research and see patients--the ideal formula for discovery and its translation into cures. Our patients benefit from access to doctors at the top of their fields, and our researchers have an ideal community in which to study the impact of healthcare challenges, and reflect that knowledge in their research. The greater Los Angeles area in which Cedars-Sinai resides possesses unparalleled cultural and ethnic diversity which offers outstanding opportunities for translational and clinical research and a dynamic environment for medical education.Although community based, Cedars-Sinai is a major teaching hospital affiliated with the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Cedars-Sinai has highly competi ... tive graduate medical education programs in more than 50 specialty and subspecialty areas, a graduate program in biomedical sciences and translational medicine, a clinical scholars program directed towards junior physicians with aspirations to become clinical scientists, and post graduate training opportunities.There are more than 250 full-time faculty members at Cedars-Sinai. The voluntary medical staff, comprised of more than 2,200 specialty board-certified or board-qualified physicians, represent all of the specialties and subspecialties and collaborate with full-time medical staff in the teaching responsibilities of the graduate medical education programs.

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