- Receive patients, confirm patient identification, obtain patient history, provide patient education, provide reassurance and ensure patient comfort. Perform fall risk assessment and mobilize appropriate assistive lifting and transfer devices as needed.
- Review exam requests for appropriateness before performing exams. Use appropriateness criteria, the clinical history provided on the request, patient interview, chart review or contact with the ordering clinician to clarify as needed.
- Apply principles of customer service and whole health to promote a positive patient experience. Assist schedulers in making appointments that are timely, coordinated with other appointments when possible to reduce travel burden, and aligned with the overall care plan.
- Perform diagnostic ultrasound exams in outpatient and inpatient settings. Exams include, but are not limited to: neck, abdomen and pelvis, chest, small parts, musculoskeletal, aortoiliac and venous studies.
- Support image-guided procedures. Facilitate timely review and scheduling of requested procedures. Coordinate nursing and other support needed from other services.
- Support ultrasound exams and ultrasound-guided procedures in the Women's Health Clinic including, transabdominal and transvaginal ultrasound, SIS (Saline-Infusion Sonohysterography), and ultrasound guided aspiration and biopsy.
- Apply knowledge of PACS (Picture Archiving and Communication Systems) including fundamental knowledge of the network, image routing, quality control and basic troubleshooting.
- Support ultrasound-guided procedures by non-radiologist providers such as for thoracentesis, paracentesis, and percutaneous biopsy and drainage.
- Serve as an onsite preceptor for the AB Tech (Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College) Medical Sonography program. Provide sonography students with didactic and hands-on instruction, ensuring a positive learning experience. Provide oversight of student performance and progress, and provide evaluations to program faculty.
- Provide instruction and support of POCUS (Point of Care Ultrasound). Assist non-radiologist users in the effective use of ultrasound including, basic principles, image optimization, scanning technique and other facets of use.
- The incumbent reports to the Supervisor MIT (US) who manages immediate operations such as workflow, work assignments, breaks and lunches, technical consultation, troubleshooting and other facets of operations management. The Supervisor MIT (US) also oversees work schedules, quality assurance and quality control, performance plans and performance appraisals.
- The incumbent is responsible to maintain a significant level of self-directed exam workflow, quality assurance and safety while exercising technical proficiency in diagnostic US exams.
- The Supervisor MIT (US) uses a variety of performance metrics to review work such as, repeat rate, sampling of cases for review, radiologist feedback, other data collection, observation, customer feedback and other sources.
- Work assignments include data collection for performance improvement, equipment QC, exam tracking and audits and other administrative duties assigned by the Supervisor MIT (US).
- The incumbent is responsible to perform work assignments with required accuracy and timeliness, and to solicit guidance and clarification as needed.
- Work is reviewed for completeness, accuracy, timeliness and other factors related to satisfactory performance. Work Schedule : Intermittent
Med Inst Tech - Asheville, United States - Veterans Health Administration
Description
Summary
The MIT(Ultrasound) technologist operates ultrasound equipment to acquire diagnostic images of patients, and support ultrasound-guided procedures to enable the diagnosis and treatment of disease. Exam requests are screened for appropriateness and reviewed with a radiologist as needed. Exams are largely done by established protocol however some clinical presentations may require the technologist to tailor exams to meet the unique requirements or condition of the specific patient.Duties
Major Duties:Virtual: This is not a virtual position.