Where You’ll Work At CHI Health Midlands we proudly serve Sarpy County and surrounding areas in Nebraska with patient-focused care.
When designing our facility, we kept the patient viewpoint in mind, setting a tone for a more comfortable, less stressful hospital stay.
We provide our patients with some of the highest quality scores in the country in heart and vascular, emergency, and surgical care.
Also, we offer high quality care in diagnostics/radiology, women's care, home care, orthopedics, sleep and breathing disorders.
Job Summary and Responsibilities As our CT Technologist, you will utilize your expertise to capture precise diagnostic images, enabling our Radiologists to accurately diagnose and/or rule out diverse medical conditions.Every day, you will adeptly create detailed cross-sectional images of the skeleton, tissues, and internal organs.
Your compassionate interaction and skill in patient care will be crucial, as you play a significant role in fostering a positive and comforting patient experience throughout the imaging process.To be successful in this role, you will deeply understand the critical importance of diagnostic imaging.
This includes a comprehensive knowledge of general imaging workflow, various patient positioning techniques, and the ability to consistently capture clear results essential for timely and accurate diagnoses that guide effective patient care.
Proper assessment of the patient and their abilities to participate in ordered procedure.
Provides a clear explanation of the procedure including; duration, process, and what to expect following completion.
Verifies informed consent for and assists physician with interventional procedures; needle localization, aspiration, biopsies, and other invasive procedures.
Practices aseptic and sterile techniques as necessary and observes universal precautions.
Provides patient education as appropriate.
Selection of the proper equipment, setting correct technical factors, procedure protocols and gathers proper supplies prior to performance of the procedure.
Recognizes all radiation safety standards including “Image Gently” and “Image Wisely” and MR safety standards.
Understands and follows all rules around radiation protection including wearing of lead protection when utilizing fluoroscopy or when there is a possibility of exposure i.e.
CT room, performing portable exams etc.
Obtains clear and complete history from the patient and or patient record and records that data into patient record to assist in image interpretation and future patient encounters Is able to perform quality assessment of images obtained and is able to evaluate equipment issues and reports assessment to supervisor, manager or director.
