Senior Sonographer - Radiology - (0800-1630 or 0930-1800) Downtown Campus

The University of Iowa Health Care Medical Center Downtown (located at 500 E. Market Street, Iowa City, IA) Radiology Department is looking to hire for one position at either the Sonographer, Pay Grade 5, or Sr. Sonographer, Pay Grade 7, based on the qualifications of the successful candidate. Please indicate in your cover letter the position you wish to be considered for or indicate both. 

A career with University of Iowa Health Care is more than a job. Here, you’re part of something greater, something bigger. Our downtown campus is a 194-bed hospital (located at 500 E Market Street, Iowa City) providing a community-based model of care while directly connected to the expertise, technology, collaboration, and support of our entire health system. Join the team at our downtown campus. You’ll find meaning and purpose knowing that your work helps make all of Iowa better.

Selective candidates eligible for a sign-on bonus of $10,000.  Current UI employees are not eligible.

Perform complex procedures at an advanced level that requires independent judgment and initiative in order to obtain information for use by physicians in diagnosing and treating patient illness; participate in teaching, evaluating, and advising fellows, residents, and medical students. 

Schedule: Mon-Fri, (0800-1630 or 0930-1800) Call rotation/Holiday

Duties to include:

Sonographer: 

• Assists in the instruction of co-workers and students as required as well as in the review, updating and developing of new procedures as they become available.

• Assists physicians in advanced sonographic procedures such as biopsies, amniocentesis, and similar activities.

• Completes required continuing education as needed in order to maintain ARDMS certification.

• Coordinates procedures with nursing units, referring offices, and within the Radiology department.

• Interviews patients and records medical history relative to ultrasound examinations.

• Identifies, accesses, and prepares medications as prescribed by a licensed practitioner.

• Maintains all equipment by safe, cautious and proper use, communicating any malfunctions to the appropriate supervisor immediately.

• Prepares patients and determines technical factors to be used in ultrasound examinations.

• Provides for care and protection of patients during procedures, assuming care for the emotional, psychological and physical needs while adhering to The Joint Commission patient safety goals.

• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Senior Sonographer:

·     Obtains and documents a comprehensive medical, psychosocial, and developmental health history; performs and documents complete, system-focused, or symptom-specific physical examination, assessment, and plan of care.

·     In collaboration, provides healthcare services for primary, acute, and complex care of patients and manages patient's overall care, initiates appropriate referrals and consultations, and identifying expected outcomes for diagnoses.

·     Orders, performs, interprets, and collects data using appropriate assessment techniques, relevant supporting diagnostic information and diagnostic procedures where indicated.

·     Forms differential diagnoses and treats acute and chronic conditions.

·     Prescribes therapeutic interventions both pharmacologic, non-pharmacologic and surgical/procedural, needed to achieve expected outcomes.

·     Utilizes evidence-based, approved practice protocols in planning and implementing care.

·     Provides specialty specific consultation services upon request and within specialty scope of practice.

·     Facilitates the patient’s transition between and within health care settings, such as admitting, transferring, and discharging patients.

For a full job description, schedule and information about the Radiology Department, please send an e-mail to the contact listed below.