Nemours is looking for a Pediatric Echocardiography Sonographer to join our Nemours Children's Health team in Wilmington. This Echo Sonographer will be performing pediatric and fetal echocardiograms. Position is 40 hours per week.
Primary Function:
Serve as a Health Care Professional with primary responsibility of patient focused echocardiography service providing high quality patient care.
Essential Functions:
Perform pediatric cardiac ultrasound exams (TTE) following a set protocol according to guidelines and standards set by IAC and the American Society of Echocardiography.
Provides age and developmentally appropriate care to infants, children and adolescents.
Provides clinical assistance to cardiology fellows and students.
Loads images into Echo PACS system and completes preliminary reports.
Chooses appropriate procedure code for billing purposes.
The availability/flexibility to provide on call coverage during weekend hours, weekday off hours and holiday coverage.
Requirements
Graduate of an accredited ultrasound training program.
Successful completion of the physics and technology exams from American Registry of Diagnostic Medical Sonographers (ARDMS).
Cardiovascular Credentialing International (CCI), or registry eligible. If registry eligible, registration must be obtained within one year of hire.
American Heart BLS certification, required.
Registered ARDMS (PE) or CCI required.
Registered ARDMS (FE) preferred.
Must be available to travel to satellite locations based on patient need.
Nemours Children's Health is an internationally recognized pediatric health system serving more than 1.7 million patient encounters each year. We deliver care across six states through two freestanding children’s hospitals — Nemours Children's Hospital, Delaware and Nemours Children's Hospital, Florida — along with a network of more than 80 primary, urgent, and specialty care practices and more than 40 hospital partnerships.
Backed by the Nemours Foundation and Alfred I. duPont Trust, our $1.7B nonprofit system is dedicated to improving children's health through clinical care, research, education, advocacy, and prevention. Our Whole Child Health approach focuses equally on prevention and treatment, partnering with communities to help every child thrive.
Inclusion and belonging guide our strategy and growth. We are committed to culturally relevant care, reducing health disparities, and fostering an environment where every associate, patient, and family feels supported and valued.
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Nemours Children's Health is committed to improving the health of children. As a non-profit children’s health organization, we consider the health of every child to be a sacred trust.
Through family-centered care in our children’s hospitals and clinics in Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Florida, as well as world-changing research, education and advocacy, Nemours fulfills the promise of a healthier tomorrow for all children — even those who may never enter our doors.
Nemours began more than 80 years ago with the vision of Alfred I. duPont to improve the lives of children and to do whatever it takes to prevent and treat even the most disabling childhood conditions.
Today, through our children’s hospitals and health system, we directly care for 250,000 children annually in Delaware Valley and Florida, including families who travel from across the country and world to see our specialists — treating every child as we would our own.
We also reach beyond the walls of our hospitals and clinics to be a voice for children on a national and international level, and to lead the way in prevention, intervention, education, and research.
Nemours is growing to better serve the children and families in our care. We have 1.1 million square feet of space currently devoted to providing children’s healthcare or under construction, all designed with significant input and advice from our patients and families.
