Description
Join our team as a PRN Radiology Student and begin building the skills, confidence, and patient-care experience that will help prepare you for the next step in your imaging career.
This is a great opportunity to work alongside experienced imaging professionals, strengthen your technical abilities, and gain real-world experience while completing your final semester of Radiology School.
Essential Functions
- Ensure proper patient identification and order verification and prepare patients for imaging exams.
- Provide compassionate care and remain sensitive to each patient's needs throughout the procedure.
- Clearly explain procedures to patients and families to encourage cooperation and help reduce anxiety.
- Listen to and appropriately address patient concerns.
- Perform radiologic exams that produce quality images while maintaining patient and staff safety.
- Follow established protocols, correct patient-positioning techniques, appropriate equipment procedures, and radiation-protection guidelines.
- Recognize emergent patient situations and respond quickly and appropriately.
- Thoroughly and accurately complete required documentation, including timestamps and image storage.
- Coordinate patient care and communicate pertinent information to other patient-care providers following procedures.
- Maintain a clean, organised, and safe environment for patients and staff.
- Pursue education and career-development opportunities, with an emphasis on learning new procedures and equipment.
Minimum Qualifications
- Currently in the last semester of Radiology School.
- Licensure as a Practical Radiologic Technologist/Limited Scope Operator in the state of practice or American Registry of Radiologic Technologists (ARRT) Board Registry Eligible, as required by the state.
- Basic Life Support (BLS) certification for healthcare providers.
- Competency in at least one of the following areas: Chest, Extremities, Spine, Skull, Podiatry, Bone Densitometry (DEXA).
- Performs imaging exams only when the employee meets Core Exam Specifications and the exam is permitted by their Limited Scope Radiographer license.
- Must demonstrate competency in applicable imaging areas through successful completion of required skills testing and competency review.
Physical Requirements
- Ongoing need for employee to see and read information, labels, assess patient needs, operate monitors, identify equipment and supplies.
- Frequent interactions with patient care providers, patients, and visitors that require employee to verbally communicate as well as hear and understand spoken information, alarms, needs, and issues quickly and accurately, particularly during emergency situations.
- Manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate complex and delicate equipment with precision and accuracy.
- Expected to lift and utilise full range of movement to transfer patients.
- Need to walk and assist with transporting/ambulating patients and obtaining and distributing supplies and equipment.
Benefits We provide our caregivers a generous benefits package that covers a wide range of programs to foster a sustainable culture of wellness that encompasses living healthy, happy, secure, connected, and engaged.