Ultrasound Tech

Ultrasound Tech

Some cities never sleep, this one never rests...

The Community - Memphis, TN

Memphis is a city in the southwestern corner of the State of Tennessee and the county seat of Shelby County. The city is located on the fourth Chickasaw Bluff, south of the confluence of the Wolf and Mississippi rivers. Memphis had a population of 653,450 in 2013, making it the largest city in the state of Tennessee, the largest city on the Mississippi River, the third largest in the greater Southeastern United States (Tennessee is in the Upper South). Memphis is the youngest of Tennessee's major cities, founded in 1819 by European Americans, and developed with the skilled work of their African-American slaves. A resident of Memphis is referred to as a Memphian, and the Memphis region is known, particularly to media outlets, as "Memphis & the Mid-South". Memphis abounds with deep roots, from the Old Growth Forest in Overton Park to the 4,500 acres in Shelby Farms Park. And then there are the deep roots that connect us to each other. Bound together by churches, by schools, by music, by spirit and by soul, we are friends, family, and neighbors. It's a city where the cost of living is low, and the quality of life can't be beat. Here are the crossroads; history is made not by worrying about what you don't have, but by taking care of business with what you do. Some cities never sleep, this one never rests. Last year, Memphis saw an award-winning Broadway show by the same name take the world by storm; it saw $1 billion in economic development; it saw the President of the United States inspired by a group of local high schoolers. And the world saw Memphis' grit and determination in the Academy Award-winning documentary, "Undefeated." Welcome to your new HOME.

Memphis VAMC

The VAMC in Memphis, TN consists of one main campus located at 1030 Jefferson Avenue, which includes a 60-bed Spinal Cord Injury Unit, and nine community-based outpatient clinics (CBOC). It is a tertiary care facility classified as a Clinical Referral Level I Facility and one of the most complex medical centers in the VA system. It is a teaching hospital, providing a full range of patient care services, with state-of-the-art technology, as well as extensive education and research programs. Comprehensive primary, secondary, and tertiary health care is provided in areas of medicine, general cardiovascular and neurological surgery, psychiatry, physical medicine and rehabilitation, spinal cord injury, neurology, oncology, dentistry, and geriatrics. Specialized outpatient services are provided through general, specialty, and subspecialty outpatient clinics including a women's health center. Services are available to more than 206,000 Veterans living in a 53-county tri-state area (Tennessee, Arkansas, and Mississippi).

RESPONSIBILITIES: The Ultrasound Technologists care shall cover the range of mobile Ultrasound services. Operating special equipment that uses high-frequency sound waves to record images of internal organs as would be provided in a state-of-the-art civilian medical treatment facility. The standard of care shall be of a quality, meeting or exceeding currently recognized national standards as established by the professional standards of the Joint Commission (TJC) and the American Hospital Association (AHA) Duties of the position include, but are not limited to:

• Independently performs standard examinations.
• Evaluates the nature of critical and emergency procedures, and rearranges patients scheduled to accommodate them.
• Maintains records and image files of patients examined. Cross-indexes interesting cases for teaching purposes.
• Performs studies of the liver, gallbladder, pelvis, spleen, pancreas, abdominal aorta, using real time techniques to evaluate the structures for size, abnormal contour, cysts and various pathologic disorders.
• Performs Doppler examinations of the portal vein, IVC, scrotum and kidneys. Effectively uses Doppler to supplement the examinations of other organs when needed.
• Performs vascular studies of the extremities upper and lower (venous).
• Performs studies of the kidneys, adrenal glands, nodes and urinary bladder using real time Gray scale techniques to perform examinations for detection of renal cysts and tumors, adrenal masses, lymph node enlargement, retro peritoneal hematomas, abscesses and abnormalities of the urinary bladder
• Explain the ultrasound procedure to patients and answer any questions they may have.
• Maintain ultrasound equipment and sterilize the room in which the procedure takes place.
• Spread the ultrasound gel on the surface of the patient's body covering the internal area being imaged.
• Perform the ultrasound ensuring the transducer (probe) is capturing images of every angle/section that must be assessed.
• Evaluate the images for their quality, but also to interpret what was captured in the image.
• Present images and preliminary findings to physicians and the healthcare team.
• Maintain patient records and add medical notes related to the ultrasound procedure

REQUIREMENTS :

• American Registry for Diagnostic Medical Sonography (ARDMS) certification.
• Two (2) years of general ultrasound experience doing radiology exams.
• Must have experience in general abdominal, renal, liver, pelvis, thyroid, scrotum, soft tissue examinations
• CMEs as required or requested by the PVAHCS. Contractor's technologist(s) registered or certified by national/medical associations shall continue to meet the minimum standards for CME to remain current
• Ability to speak, understand, read and write English fluently

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