PRN - Ultrasonographer II - Cardiac Diagnostic Suite

Job Description

Job Description

Company Description

Location: 825 N. Center Ave., Gaylord, MI

Will also travel to Petoskey and Charlevoix as needed

Schedule: PRN - As Needed - Monday - Friday 7AM - 5:30PM

More Than Just Care, It’s Community

Imagine doing meaningful work in a place where people vacation. That’s life at Munson Healthcare - northern Michigan’s largest healthcare system, with eight award-winning community hospitals serving over half a million residents across 29 counties.

If you want a career in healthcare and a lifestyle most people only dream about – with freshwater lakes, scenic trails, charming downtowns, a vibrant arts scene, and endless outdoor adventures - you might just be Munson Material. To us, that means teammates who live by our values of excellence, teamness, positivity, creativity, and a commitment to creating exceptional experiences for our patients and each other. Join a team that delivers outstanding care in one of the most beautiful regions in the country.

Invested in You

• Grow: Tuition reimbursement, in-person and online development, and access to our career hub to help you advance.
• Thrive: Full benefits, paid holidays, generous PTO, employee discounts, and free individual retirement counseling.
• Be Well: Free wellness platform for you and your family, plus personalized support for personal or family challenges.
• Be Heard: Share your ideas and help shape the way we work through improvement huddles, employee surveys, and town hall meetings

A Day in the Life

• The Ultrasonographer II functions as a healthcare provider who, working under the delegated authority of the supervising physician, serves as a medical imaging professional providing clinically relevant information to assist the physician with the diagnosis and treatment of patients.
• The Ultrasonographer II role and responsibilities include providing diagnostic medical sonography services and its various clinical specialties including vascular exams and/or high-level ultrasound exams as listed below.
• The Ultrasonographer II activities are performed consistent with their education, training, ARDMS registries and sonographer experience in accordance with facility policies and procedures and applicable professional standards. The Ultrasonographer II experience and knowledge level provides a mentor and teacher to other staff sonographers.
• This position will be a service line position meaning that individuals selected for this position will be required to cover various sites within the Munson Healthcare Cardiovascular Service line. The service line includes Cardiac Diagnostic Suite at Webber Heart Center Traverse City, Traverse Heart & Vascular Traverse City, & Munson Healthcare Cadillac. There is a continuous working relationship with other members of the CDS team (medical staff, nursing staff and physician office staff).
• Performs routine STAT 2D Echocardiograms, M-mode and cardiac Doppler studies with direct supervision.
• Performs adult 2D Echocardiograms. M-mode, PW & CW Doppler, Color Spectral Doppler and Transesophageal Echocardiograms, with some exposure to pediatric patients.
• In addition, performs stress echocardiograms and Dobutamine Stress Echocardiograms.
• There are no supervisory or managerial responsibilities with the position, however, the Cardiac Ultrasound Technologist must teach the procedures to other designated staff. Maybe required to travel outside the hospital.

What’s Required

• Completion of college or hospital based Vascular or Diagnostic Medical Sonography Program or completion of Allied Health Program approved by the AMA
• Registered Sonographer with 10 or more years’ experience who have at least 1 RDMS subspecialties (i.e. ABD and OB/GYN etc.) This elevated designation represents a highly skilled and knowledgeable General sonographer and are expected to be mentors and teachers for all technologists.
• Technologists must perform basic ultrasound and vascular exams listed with Ultrasonographer I along with more highly skilled exams such as: Appendix, Intussusception, Hernia, OB-Multiple Gest, Follicular, OR-all exams gen and vascular, Upper extremity venous, Vein Mapping, Infant Spine, Hysterosonogram, Paracentesis, Thoracentesis, Amniocentesis, Abscess Drainage, Biopsies (any organ), OR-including: Endarterectomy, Partial Nephrectomy, D/C, Tumor location for Excision, Renal Artery Doppler, Mesenteric Doppler, Liver Doppler, Renal Transplant, Upper Arterial, Lower Arterial, Peripheral vascular arterial, Peripheral venous studies including vein mapping.

Schedule: Variable schedule, up to 40 hours per week, weekend call rotation

Are you Munson Material? Apply today!

Munson Healthcare requires all employees be vaccinated or have lab confirmed immunity for Measles, Mumps, Rubella and Varicella. MHC also requires all employees to receive a flu vaccine during the flu season in the year that they are hired and annually thereafter, or receive an approved medical or religious exemption.