Sonographer Specialty

Inova Loudoun Hospital is looking for a dedicated Sonographer Specialty to join the team. This role will be Full Time Monday 8am-6:30pm, Tuesday 8am-6:30pm, Thursday 9:00-7:30pm, Friday 1pm-11:30 while covering at multiple locations

Inova is consistently ranked as a national healthcare leader in safety, quality and patient experience. We are also proud to be consistently recognized as a top employer in both the D.C. metro area and the nation.

Featured Benefits:

• Committed to Team Member Health: offering medical, dental and vision coverage, and a robust team member wellness program.
• Retirement: Inova matches the first 5% of eligible contributions - starting on your first day.
• Tuition and Student Loan Assistance: offering up to $5,250 per year in education assistance and up to $10,000 for student loans.
• Mental Health Support: offering all Inova team members, their spouses/partners, and their children 25 mental health coaching or therapy sessions, per person, per year, at no cost.
• Work/Life Balance: offering paid time off, paid parental leave, flexible work schedules, and more!

Sonographer Specialty Job Responsibilities:

• Communicates effectively with patients to obtain clinical history/informed consent from patients or patients' charts to assist physicians in optimizing the performance and interpretation of examinations.
• Explains procedures to patients/families and answers questions to ease anxiety and ensure patient cooperation.
• Correctly identify patients and their files while ensuring a high degree of accuracy.
• Tracks patients according to department procedures.
• Demonstrates patient safety in the department by use of side rails, braking mechanisms and patient monitoring. Reports, documents and corrects any adverse, unsafe or unusual conditions.
• Assists in teaching radiography students sound radiography principles.
• Assists physicians in performing TEE, Fetal Echoes, and AV optimization studies by using departmental protocols to provide optimum results.
• Demonstrates knowledge of proper sterile technique and isolation precautions as they pertain to the various specialty procedures.
• Recognizes clinical and/or emergent problems that may interfere with exams and takes appropriate action to resolve them and produce the most desirable outcomes.
• Other duties as assigned

Minimum Qualifications:

• Education: Graduate of an accredited school of Diagnostic Medical Sonography. ARRT, ARDMS, RDMS or RVT registry eligible. Must be registry eligible and obtain certification within 18 months from date of hire.
• Experience: One year of experience in a hospital/healthcare environment in the performance of Specialized Diagnostic Medical Sonography.
• Certification:
  
  
  
  • Basic Life Support via American Heart Association
  • American Registry of Radiologic Technologists (ARRT), American Registry for Diagnostic Medical Sonography (ARDMS), Registered Vascular Technologist (RVT), Registered Diagnostic Medical Sonographer (RDMS), certification as a Diagnostic Medical Sonographer or must be registry eligible and obtain certification within 18 months from date of hire.
  
  

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