About ChristianaCare: ChristianaCare is the one of the Mid Atlantic's largest academic health care providers and consists of 3 campuses: Wilmington, Newark and Union at Cecil County. Through our values of love and excellence, ChristianaCare is consistently identified as a regional center of excellence for cardiology, cancer and women's health services and ranked by US News & World as Best Hospital.
Primary Function:
To perform diagnostic echocardiograms in adherence to the American Society of Echo Cardiography and to assist physicians in the diagnosis of cardiac disease.
Shift:
- 7:30a - 4p
- No weekends and no holidays.
Responsibilities:
- Performs 2D, M-Mode, CW, PW, and Color Flow Doppler echocardiograms.
- Performs stress echocardiograms.
- Performs IV starts for Dobutamine stress testing.
- Demonstrates skills and knowledge necessary to provide quality and quantitative echocardiograms for adult and geriatric populations.
- Accurately present completed echocardiograms to physicians.
- Demonstrate ability to recognize normal and abnormal echocardiograms.
- Demonstrates ability to instruct students in clinical procedures.
- Demonstrates knowledge in operation of Ascend reporting.
- Demonstrates knowledge in all aspects of non-invasive procedures and equipment.
- Demonstrates patient care at a high standard.
- Demonstrates compliance with Christiana Care and departmental policies and procedures.
- Rotates to all Cardiac Diagnostic Centers at the manager’s discretion.
- Enters accurate patient study information into the clinical care system.
- Attends departmental meetings and in-services as required.
- Maintains required credentials of CPR and mandatory inservice education.
- Performs assigned work safely, adhering to established departmental safety rules and practices. Reports to a supervisor, in a timely manner, any unsafe activities, conditions, hazards, or safety violations that may cause injury to oneself, other employees, patients and visitors.
- Performs other related duties as required.
Education Requirements:
- Associate's degree preferred.
- Certification from ARDMS (Registered Diagnostic Cardiac Sonographer, RDCS) or from Cardiovascular Credentialing International (Registered Cardiovascular Technologist, RCVT), or a new graduate of an accredited ultrasound program who meets registry eligibility.
- CPR certification.
- IV experience with saline contrast.
- Experience in stress echo, dobutamine stress echo and adult echo.
Special Requirements:
- Registered Cardiovascular Sonographer or registry eligible obtaining certification within one year of hire.
- Pass Christiana Care physical.
This position pays $37.38 to $50.90 based on experience.This pay rate/range represents ChristianaCare’s good faith and reasonable estimate of compensation at the time of posting. The actual salary within this range offered to a successful candidate will depend on individual factors including without limitation skills, relevant experience, and qualifications as they relate to specific job requirements.
Christiana Care Health System is an equal opportunity employer, firmly committed to prohibiting discrimination, whose staff is reflective of its community, and considers qualified applicants for open positions without regard to race, color, sex, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, genetic information, gender identity or expression, age, veteran status, disability, pregnancy, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law.
