MAJOR TASKS OF JOB PERFORMANCE AND CLINICAL EDUCATION

■ Communicate with patients & others in completion of tasks.

■ Retrieve & dispatch patients, within the department & well being while he/she is under the sonographer's jurisdiction.

■ Provide basic life support services when needed.

■ Secure & assist with advanced life support services, where indicated.

■ Assist with patient movement & perform positioning for sonographic imaging and procedures.

■ Retrieve, manipulate, & operate sonographic equipment & adjunct instruments for imaging.

■ Prepare & use procedure materials such as: sterile trays, instruments, linens, and pt. care items.

■ Retrieve, manipulate, & operate sonographic equipment & adjunct instruments for imaging.

■ Retrieve, secure for filming, & dispatch sonographic film holders & recording mechanisms during the imaging process.

■ Process and/or retrieve sonographic images (hard copy films or digitally stored), and dispatch patient and sonographic records.

■ Evaluate images for technical accuracy & procedures determination.

■ Assist the physician when doing special procedures (amniocentesis, biopsies).

■ Perform surgical and bedside sonography, move & operate related instrumentation.

Work in various sonography departments in the hospital and outside clinical facilities.

■ Perform basic equipment maintenance.

■ Receive & schedule patients, file, and assist with office & clerical work.

■ Process procedure results in accepted formats (such as graphs, curves, and charts).

■ Perform diagnostic sonographic tasks for an eight hour shift assignment.    (top)