Echocardiographer

**About Pulse Heart Institute** MultiCare’s Pulse Heart Institute is a physician led institute with multi-specialty partnership with Cardiothoracic surgery, vascular and cardiovascular service lines. Our team and state-of-the-art programs create a world-class health care organization and the destination center for cardiac, thoracic, and vascular care with complex structural heart disease and interventions, advanced heart failure service as well as advanced imaging with cutting edge technologies. **FTE: .01 Per Diem, Shift: Days, Schedule: Days** **Position Summary** The Echocardiographer (cardiac sonographer) is responsible for obtaining high quality recordings of ultrasound images of the heart and related structures for the cardiologist who will interpret the examination. This is a technical position requiring a highly skilled operator with knowledge of the various types of ultrasound procedures. Work situations require clinical interpretive knowledge, independent judgment, initiative, and ingenuity in performing procedures. External contacts include patients, family members, and physicians. Internal contacts are basically within the work group. **Responsibilities:** * Performs echocardiographic studies on adult and pediatric patients * Completes the echocardiography worksheet with quantitative calculations, measurements, and descriptive information acquired while performing the study on each patient * Performs clerical procedures, to include scheduling, answering phones, filing, notification of interpreting cardiologists, preliminary report circulation, material stocking, data basing, and charging * Performs cleaning and maintenance of ultrasound and other equipment * Knowledge of and a thorough understanding of the physical principles of ultrasound and ultrasound systems * Knowledge of cardiac abnormalities in order to produce diagnostic echocardiograms * Skill in the performance of the technique so as to produce complete anatomic and functional information for t