CAT Scan Tech, CAT Scan

Overview

You Matter Here! Heywood Healthcare values our employees! We offer competitive wages, great benefits and generous earned time off. Come work where you will matter! Hours: 32-Hours, Evenings, 3:00pm - 11:30pm, Every other weekend, Rotating holidays $38.50 - $49.38 Disclaimer: We are committed to equitable and transparent compensation practices. The salary range for this position reflects our good-faith estimate of base pay at the time of posting. Final compensation will be determined based on a variety of factors, including relevant experience, skills, qualifications, and internal equity.

We regularly review our compensation structures to ensure fairness and consistency across our organization.

Job Summary

CT technologists utilize computerized tomography (CT) scanners to produce cross-section images of patients’ internal organs and tissues for the diagnosis of medical issues. A CT scan technologist must be able to interpret a physician’s scanning instructions, administer contrast materials, prepare and operate the CT scan equipment and position the patient to capture the appropriate images. A CT scan technologist must maneuver equipment and patients. This effort may pose physical challenges. CT scanners emit radiation, which can be harmful to the technologist and patient if proper safety procedures are not followed.

Responsibilities

Essential Functions Conducts interactions with everyone in a friendly, courteous and respectful manner. Goes out of his/her way to offer assistance to others. If he/she cannot offer assistance, then finds someone who can. Advocates to ensure privacy and confidentiality while helping others to maintain awareness. Maintains a clean and safe hospital. Responds appropriately and immediately in emergency situations. Maintains a safe and healthy environment for patients, visitors, and/or staff to provide the highest level of physical comfort, and minimize risk and injury. Ensures compliance with regulations to maintain accreditation and licensure.

Complies with the Hospital Attendance and Tardiness Policy Completed all Hospital and Department Specific Mandatory requirements in the prior calendar year. Reports Incidents in a timely and effective manner. All employees with direct patient contact are responsible for actively engaging in the practice of, monitoring and enforcing compliance to hand hygiene. Assures that all Cat Scan images are of optimum diagnostic quality so that radiologist can make an accurate interpretation of the images. Follows pre-determined image criteria to assess images to determine that all images include all required measurements, volumes and anatomical information.

Assures all images include all required demographic information, charts, graphs, measurements and that the images are of diagnostic quality. Operates all diagnostic Cat Scan processing and printing equipment to create a quality final image and ensures all required data is on the final data sheet. Operates Cat Scan equipment and…

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