Vascular Sonographer
Inova Fairfax Hospital
Falls Church, VA
Days

Inova Benefits and Perks:
- Health, Vision, and Dental Coverage
- Paid Parental Leave
- Retirement matching: dollar for dollar the first 5% of your eligible pay that you contribute
- Competitive salary
- Paid Time Off: Accrue PTO hours on your very first day of work.
- Relocation for those who qualify.
- Qualified candidates may be eligible for up to a $20,000 sign-on bonus.
Inova Fairfax Medical Campus is hiring a full time Cardiovascular Sonographer to join our Adult Echo Lab!
Inova Fairfax Medical Center Echo Lab is an advanced echo imagining center with a strong emphasis on clinical excellence, education, innovation, and research. Our lab is nationally accredited through the Intersocietal Accreditation Commission and is comprised of over 22 sonographers and 25 physicians who support our award-winning clinical programs and hospital.
The lab has a full fleet of updated Philips machines with advanced 3D and strain imaging technology available and offers regular educational opportunities to assist in developing your knowledge and skill set. Cardiovascular Sonographers also teach cardiology fellows and sonography students. Career development is offered through a clinical ladder. Please apply to join our highly skilled team!
Shift: Day
Hours: Monday- Friday, rotating weekends
Location: Inova Fairfax Medical Center The Cardiovascular Sonographer 1 administers sound patient care practices according to hospital and department policies/procedures to ensure patient safety. Demonstrates safety for patients, staff and self as outlined in department protocols and regulatory guidelines. Completes ancillary tasks to ensure efficient and consistent departmental operations and maintains equipment, exam rooms and work areas in a neat and safe condition to ensure the safety of the patients and employees. Provides clinical services according to diagnostic echo vascular principles, theory and practice standards to ensure optimal department functions.

Job Responsibilities

- Communicates effectively with patients to obtain clinical history/informed consent from patients or patients' charts to assist the physician in optimizing the performance and interpretation of the examination, as evidenced by the exam results.
- Explains procedure to patients/families and answers any questions to ease anxiety while assuring patients cooperation, as evidence by customer satisfaction.
- Assists the physician in performing a variety of examinations using standard department protocols, isolation precautions and/or sterile technique, as evidenced by Radiologist's satisfaction.
- Demonstrates the ability to recognize clinical and/or emergent problems that may interfere with exams and takes appropriate action to resolve them and produce the most desirable outcome, as evidence by exam results and patient satisfaction.
- Demonstrates proper technique for injection of IV contrast, or other test-enhancing solution, under the Society of Diagnostic Medical Sonography Standards. Correctly identifies patients and appropriate orders ensuring a high degree of accuracy, as evidenced by the lack of mismatched studies.
- Tracks patients according to department procedures. Identifies errors and takes immediate action for corrections, as evidenced by the EMR and PACS Systems reports.
- Demonstrates proper care and aseptic cleaning of all patient related equipment, following established department policies, to ensure the quality of care provided to patients.
- Demonstrates a thorough understanding of echo vascular principles/theory, anatomy and pathology processes utilizing the most appropriate techniques and/or positioning for optimal examinations, as demonstrated by exam results.
- May perform additional duties as assigned.

Additional Requirements

Certification - Basic Life Support upon start; Registered Diagnostic Medical Sonographer ARDMS Registered with RDCS Certification or CCI Registered with certification for Vascular or Registry eligible and must obtain within one year; RCS Certification for Echo, or ARDMS with RVT or CCI with the RVS within one year of hireLicensure - None requiredExperience - Recent experience in a hospital/healthcare environment as a sonographer or sonographer student.Education - Other Sonography Graduate of an accredited school/program of diagnostic medical , setting., sonography or five years specialized training in a hospital/healthcare.