Echo and Vascular Tech Reg

HCA Healthcare, Inc.; Houston (TX); Vor Ort; USD 65.000 - 90.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Comprehensive benefits

Tuition assistance

401(k) Plan with match

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Zusammenfassung

HCA Houston Healthcare West is seeking an Echo and Vascular Tech Reg to perform echocardiography studies and assist with EKG and Holter monitor applications. You will review results, maintain quality, and collaborate with physicians and staff to ensure optimal patient care.

Qualifications include an Associate Degree, BCLS within 30 days, and RDCS or RCS credentials. Prior echocardiography experience is preferred.

Qualifikationen

• BCLS must be obtained within 30 days of employment start date.
• Associate Degree required.
• RDCS or RCS credential preferred.

Aufgaben

• Performs echocardiography studies and supports EKG tasks as needed.
• Identifies changes in patient condition and communicates with staff.
• Ensures accurate documentation and charging of resources.
• Maintains quality customer service and collaborates with the health care team.

Ausbildung

Associate Degree

RDCS (Registered Diagnostic Cardiac Sonographer)

RCS (Registered Cardiac Sonographer)

Jobbeschreibung

Job Summary and Qualifications

Are you passionate about the patient experience? At HCA Healthcare, we are committed to caring for patients with purpose and integrity. We care like family! Jump-start your career as a(an) Echo and Vascular Tech Reg today with HCA Houston Healthcare West.

What you will do in this role:

• Completes echocardiography studies. Provides backup to the EKG Technicians by performing EKG, treadmill stress tests and application of Holter monitoring equipment as needed. Reviews the results of the procedures to assure quality studies have been obtained and consult with other disciplines as required to communicate results and patient status as necessary to ensure optimal service.
• Effectively identifies predictable problems and plans assigned tasks as needed.
• Recognizes changes in patient condition and initiates activities to facilitate appropriate responses.
• Communicates the patient’s condition and/or change to appropriate staff and/or physician, as needed.
• Ensure appropriate processing of results of echocardiography testing per policy and procedure.
• Responds promptly to changes in workload, adjusting assignments as necessary to achieve optimal productivity and efficiency.
• Prioritizes and plans all work steps to ensure success; considers time, supplies, and support required from other individuals and departments in setting up work plan and completing duties.
• Participates and facilitates in the case management process and cost containment for patients.
• Consider all available options and makes appropriate decisions.
• Assists in the containment of hospital costs through appropriate use of supplies, recovery of patient charges, and conservation of supplies.
• Communicates pertinent information regarding patient’s progress and discharge planning needs to appropriate hospital and medical staff.
• Evaluates patient progress in light of the plan of care and coordinates care to achieve desired outcomes.
• Cooperate with other personnel to achieve Department objectives and maintain good employee relations and collaborative integration of the health care team.
• Maintains harmonious relationships with staff members, providing support and assistance to ensure quality customer service.
• Demonstrates attitude of cooperation and professionalism.
• Demonstrates flexibility in working hours and days scheduled in order to meet needs of the department.
• Seeks and accepts input from Directors/Supervisors regarding interpersonal relationships that affect the department’s harmony and serviceability.
• Demonstrates accountability for direct patient care activity.
• Follows established procedures for all treatments, performance of procedures, and medication administration.
• Implements prescribed treatments accurately and in timely manner.
• Recognizes changes in patient condition and initiates activities to facilitate appropriate responses.
• Documents all aspects of patient care efficiently and effectively.
• Ensures documentation and charging of resources/supplies.
• Assures that results of testing procedures are entered into the patient medical record in a timely manner.

What qualifications you will need:

• Basic Cardiac Life Support must be obtained within 30 days of employment start date
• Associate Degree
• (RDCS) Registered Diagnostic Cardiac Sonographer, or (RCS) Registered Cardiac Sonographer

• 2 years experience Required Years of Experience

Benefits

HCA Houston Healthcare West, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

• Comprehensive benefitsfor medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health and telemedicine services
• Wellbeing support,including free counseling and referral services
• Time away from workprograms for paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence
• Savings and retirement resources, including a 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, flexible spending accounts, preferred banking partnerships, retirement readiness tools, rollover support and financial wellbeing counseling
• Education supportthrough tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing
• Additional benefitsfor fertility and family building, adoption assistance, life insurance, supplemental health protection plans, auto and home insurance, legal counseling, identity theft protection and consumer discounts

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Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.

HCA Houston Healthcare West is a full-service, 300+ bed hospital that has been offering exceptional care to the West Houston communities for over 30 years. We proudly provide Houston residents with exceptional healthcare, including a vast-array of medical services from board-certified doctors and nationally accredited departments. We are recognized as a Certified Primary Stroke Center by the Joint Commission and under an affiliation agreement with The Women's Hospital of Texas, we are able to bring our community The Woman’s Hospital of Texas at West Houston, a three-story cardiac and critical care tower. The Sugar Land Cancer Center and the Sugar Land Diagnostic Center, departments with HCA Houston Healthcare West, provide additional services to meet the needs of our community. We are members of HCA Houston Healthcare, the most comprehensive family of hospitals in the region and part of the leading provider of healthcare in the country, HCA Healthcare. Together we are stronger, smarter and more accessible in providing the patient-centered care you need close to home.

HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated 3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.

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We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.