Ultrasound Technologist – Full Time, 1st Shift (40 hours/week)
The Ultrasound Technologist performs obstetric diagnostic ultrasound studies under the direction of a Perinatologist, demonstrating professionalism and advanced knowledge of reproductive anatomy, physiology, and ultrasound equipment. Responsibilities include performing a full range of obstetric and pelvic ultrasound exams such as complete and limited OB studies, biophysical profiles, multiple gestation exams, transvaginal/cervical length studies, pelvic ultrasounds, and assisting with amniocentesis. The technologist monitors and assesses patient status, obtains accurate medical histories, and effectively communicates pertinent clinical information to appropriate providers and staff.
Additional duties include documenting and performing routine equipment calibration, inspection, and maintenance; reporting malfunctions; participating in quality improvement initiatives; and completing annual competencies and required education. The role also involves clerical and operational support such as patient registration, scheduling coordination, maintaining medical records, ordering supplies, preparing reports, charging, faxing, transporting patients as needed, stocking the department, and cleaning patient rooms and equipment.
Requirements: Formal training and current RDMS registration required; registry-eligible candidates must obtain certification within one year of hire. Current BCLS certification is required within 90 days of hire.
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Founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Health is a full-spectrum health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves. The Baptist Health family consists of nine hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 400 points of care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices and services, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness centers, and occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics.
Baptist Health’s eight owned hospitals include more than 2,300 licensed beds in Corbin, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Richmond and New Albany, Indiana. Baptist Health also operates the 410-bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky in a joint venture with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana. Baptist Health employs more than 23,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states.
Baptist Health is the first health system in the U.S. to have all of its hospitals recognized by the American Nursing Credentialing Center with either a Magnet® or Pathway to Excellence® designation for nursing excellence.
Baptist Health’s employed provider network, Baptist Health Medical Group, has nearly 1,500 providers, including more than 750 physicians and more than 740 advanced practice clinicians. Baptist Health’s physician network also includes more than 2,000 independent physicians.
Learn more at BaptistHealth.com.
