NuclearMedTech

**Position:** Nuclear Med Tech, St. Elizabeth's Medical Center **Department** : Nuclear Medicine **Schedule:** Full Time, 40 Hours (Days, Weekends Every Third) **I. Position Function:** * Under the direction of a nuclear medicine physician, performs imaging utilizing diagnostic equipment. * Performs radio-pharmacy procedures, quality control procedures, and daily monitoring procedures under the nuclear medicine physician according to NRC guidelines. **II. Job Relationships:** * Supervised and/or reportable to the Nuclear Medicine supervisor. * Must be able to collaborate and effectively communicate with physicians, other health care professionals, and patients. **III. Authority:** To decided if a test is correctly ordered, to provide the additional views for a quality study. Reportable top the NRC and JCAHO. **IV. A. Responsibilities/Essential Functions:** * 1.) "Provides superior customer service to internal and external clients, customers, and patients as referenced in the Service Excellence Standards." * Injection of patients with radio-pharmaceuticals. Checking paperwork to insure the test is ordered correctly. * Radio-pharmacy - prepare kits and draw up doses, quality control according to NRC rules and regulations. * Quality Control of gamma cameras. Daily, weekly, spect Q>C> and assist in quality assurance studies. * Patient imaging - all studies, spect, cardiac, brain, portable and on-call emergency studies. Correct views done. * Correct films taken - labeled properly. Paperwork is in order for the physician to read. * Patient scheduling - to insure proper test is ordered with applicable diagnosis - in a timely fashion. GOOD PHONE SKILLS. * Proper techniques for moving patients. Patient care, bedpans, emesis basins. * Perform bone density studies. * Assist physician with patient therapy. Also 131I total body drinks. Quality Management Program. * Ordering and receiving shipments of radioactivity - packing generator. * Aware of NRC rules and regulations. * Clea