Medical Instrument Technician (Echocardiography)

Job Title

Duties

Major duties include, but are not limited to:

• Ability to performs 2D, M-Mode, continuous and pulse wave Doppler and color flow exam.
• Performs transthoracic examinations.
• Performs stress echocardiograms with and without pharmaceuticals.
• Assists physician of results of exam.
• Receives patients, explains procedure and performs exam. Assist Cardiology Fellows in performing and interpreting echo exams. Independently setting, calibrating and operating of machinery.
• Knowledge of normal echocardiography findings and deviations produced by a wide variety of cardiovascular diseases.
• Ability to perform complex procedures such as cardiac studies of the four chambers of the heart using sector scanning techniques to detect stenotic and incompetent valves, chamber enlargement, and pericardial effusion and cardiovascular studies deriving pressure gradients across obstructed valves, etc.
• Ability to perform complementary ultrasonic examinations (including noninvasive) transthoracic echocardiography, Bubble studies and contrast echocardiography (invasive), stress echocardiography, and transesophogeal echocardiography.
• Ability to adapt transducer positioning, instrument controls, and examination techniques to the individual patient being studied and the problem being evaluated including recognizing pertinent abnormalities and documenting abnormal findings.
• Ability to interact with patients explaining procedures and positioning and prepping the patient for procedure.
• Ability to follow policy for sterilization process for TEE probes.
• Ability to complete diagnostic studies ordered by and in collaboration with physician on all tours of duty with minimal or no direct supervision; coordinates appointments/ workload according to appropriateness of patients/ staffing.
• Ability to accept verbal orders and record entries into the patient's medical record for the procedure performed. The complying of data, revising reports and completing reports for physician review.
• Ability to manage Echocardiography images in Xcelera and copy to CD.
• Ability to schedule clinic appointments using Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture (VISTA) in accordance with the business rules outlined in the VHA directive 2006-005 Outpatient Scheduling Processes and Procedures.
• Demonstrates knowledge and use of general business rules outlined in the VHA Directive 2006-005 Outpatient Scheduling Processes and Procedures.
• Ability to use established business rules for Enrollment and Registration, Scheduling, Consult Management, Use of the vista Electronic Wait List (EWL), Handling No-Shows, Patient Cancellations, and Clinic Cancellations as applicable to job. Ability to uses insurance software, as instructed, to insure the capture of all insurance information during the check-in process.

Work Schedule: Monday-Friday, Tours vary from 0800-1630. Work Schedule is subject to change based on agency need.

Functional Statement #: 521-FS-409; 521-FS-410; 521-FS-411: 521-FS-412

US Department of Veterans Affairs