Nuclear Medicine Technologist – Sign-On Bonus Eligible

Dignity Health; Long Beach (CA); On-site; USD 87,000 - 103,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Sign-on bonus eligible

Job summary

Dignity Health - St. Mary Medical Center in Long Beach, CA, is seeking a Nuclear Medicine Technologist to provide diagnostic and therapeutic services using radionuclides.

You will perform Nuclear Medicine procedures, ensure patient care, operate imaging equipment, and maintain strict radiation safety. Responsibilities include calibrating radiopharmaceuticals, coordinating procedures, and analyzing images for quality while upholding compassionate patient care.

Qualifications

• At least one year full time work experience or clinical internship in an acute care setting.
• Current Registration as a Nuclear Medicine Technologist with either ARRT or NMTCB.
• Current Venipuncture Certificate.
• Associate Degree is required.

Responsibilities

• Utilizes innovative customer service techniques to provide a positive patient care experience for the patient and their family.
• Acts professionally in all dealings with internal and external customers to promote a working environment that focuses on the patient experience and not operational rivalries or roadblocks to care.
• Coordinate and participate in a variety of technical procedures to include in vivo and in vitro studies; operate radiation detection and measurement instrumentation including stationary imaging devices, scintillation gamma and apparatus for in vitro counting.
• Calibrate and draw up radiopharmaceutical materials for administration to patients; formulate radiopharmaceutical materials from pre-prepared kits.
• Calibrate instruments and review calibration data to detect trends indicating instrument malfunction. Calculate data to include results of patient studies and radioactive decay.
• Process computerized image data to include function curves and reconstructed SPECT images.

Skills

Radiation safety

Nuclear Cardiology

Image processing

Patient care

Education

Associate Degree

Tools

Radiation detection equipment

Scintillation gamma camera

In vitro counting equipment

Job description

Dignity Health - St. Mary Medical Center in Long Beach, CA, is seeking a Nuclear Medicine Technologist to provide diagnostic and therapeutic services using radionuclides.

You will perform Nuclear Medicine procedures, ensure patient care, operate imaging equipment, and maintain strict radiation safety. Responsibilities include calibrating radiopharmaceuticals, coordinating procedures, and analyzing images for quality while upholding compassionate patient care.