Echocardiograph Tech CertReq #:0000134867

　　Category:No Category Assigned

　　Status:Full-Time

　　Shift:Evening

　　Facility:RWJ New Brunswick

　　Department:Echo / Vascular Lab

　　Location:

　　Main Hospital - New Brunswick, One Robert Wood Johnson Place, New Brunswick, NJ 08901

　　Responsibilities and duties of a cardiac sonographer include:

　　Performs echocardiogram tests according to protocol to obtain important data about patients

　　Administers two-dimensional, m-mode and Doppler pulse wave, imaging and non-imaging continuous wave, and color flow mapping echocardiograms to patients while recording digital clips

　　Properly positions patient, attaches equipment and adjusts control settings to obtain optimal display

　　Assists physicians in the diagnosis of patients with heart conditions

　　Accurately records patient data and test results

　　Helps with administrative duties such as scheduling appointments or cleaning equipment

　　Assists with other patient related activities daily

　　Able to explain all aspects of multiple test procedures

　　Insures proper equipment disinfection in accordance with established protocol

　　Education:

　　Completion of formal cardiac ultrasound training program,

　　Registered cardiac sonographer, RCS or Registered Diagnostic Cardiac Sonographer, RDCS,

　　A technologist may be hired as registry eligible,

　　In such cases the incumbent must sit for the registry exam within 6 months of hire and pass the exam within the first year of hire or be terminated,

　　Successful completion of all orientation programs; completion of all mandatory compliance training,

　　Experience: Work experience in a cardiac ultrasound laboratory

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