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Organization
Nuclear
Medicine
Job
Summary: JOB SUMMARY Performs all MRI procedures in accordance with established department policies and procedures to ensure the best possible patient care services are delivered. . Position Highlights New grads and experienced technologists welcome to apply! PET experience required Days - Monday - Friday - Rotating hours Located on main campus and working with an adult patient population. Call required KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Reviews radiology exam requests and patient identification to ensure safe, appropriate and cost effective imaging.
Applies broad range of skills to ensure exam is completed timely and meets quality and compliance standards.
Provides appropriate Nuclear Med/PET screening process to patients, staff and self according to prescribed safety standards.
The responsibilities listed are a general overview of the position and additional duties may be assigned.
TECHNICAL CAPABILITIES • Radiology (Fundamental Awareness)
- Has limited experience, training, direct exposure, or past experience working with radiology. (Demonstrates sufficient fundamental proficiency to perform limited radiology and/or limited sonography services as directed by licensed healthcare team member)
- Anatomy &
- Physiology
- Knowledge (Fundamental
- Awareness): Has limited experience, training, direct exposure, or past experience working with anatomy and physiology knowledge.
- Patient
- Documentation (Fundamental
- Awareness): Has limited experience, training, direct exposure, or past experience working with patient documentation.
- Compliance (Fundamental
- Awareness): Demonstrates and basic knowledge of the core rules, regulations, instructions and guidelines as they apply to assignments. Knows who to go to for further explanation and support. Understands which bodies regulate the industry. Allied health is among the fastest growing occupations in healthcare today. This area can be defined as credentialed professionals who perform supportive, diagnostic, and therapeutic health care services to promote health and prevent disease in a variety of settings. These areas are crucial to Vanderbilt Health’s reputation for excellence in these areas that has made us a major center for patient referrals from throughout the Mid-South. Each year, people throughout Tennessee and the southeast choose Vanderbilt Health for their health care because of our leadership in medical science and our dedication to treating patients with dignity and compassion.
- Core
- Accountabilities:
- Organizational
- Impact: Delivers job responsibilities that impact own job area/team with some guidance.
- Problem
- Solving/
- Complexity of work: Uses existing procedures, research and analysis to solve standard job related problems that may require some judgement.
- Breadth of
- Knowledge: Requires subject matter knowledge within a professional area to meet job requirements.
- Team
- Interaction: Individually contributes to project/ work teams.
- Core
- Capabilities :
- Supporting
- Colleagues: -
- Develops
- Self and
- Others: Continuously improves own skills by identifying development opportunities.-
- Builds and
- Maintains
- Relationships: Seeks to understand colleagues priorities, working styles and develops relationships across areas. -
- Communicates
- Effectively: Openly shares information with others and communicates in a clear and courteous manner.
- Delivering
- Excellent
- Services: -
- Serves
- Others with
- Compassion: Invests time to understand the problems, needs of others and how to provide excellent service. -
- Solves
- Complex
- Problems: Seeks to understand issues, solves routine problems, and raises proper concerns to supervisors in a timely manner. -
- Offers
- Meaningful
- Advice and
- Support: Listens carefully to understand the issues and provides accurate information and support.
- Ensuring
- High
- Quality: -
- Performs
- Excellent
- Work: Checks work quality before delivery and asks relevant questions to meet quality standards.-
- Ensures
- Continuous
- Improvement: Shows eagerness to learn new knowledge, technologies, tools or systems and displays willingness to go above and beyond. -
- Fulfills
- Safety and
- Regulatory
- Requirements: Demonstrates basic knowledge of conditions that affect safety and reports unsafe conditions to the appropriate person or department.
- Managing
- Resources
- Effectively :-
- Demonstrates
- Accountability: Takes responsibility for completing assigned activities and thinks beyond standard approaches to provide high-quality work/service. -
- Stewards
- Organizational
- Resources: Displays understanding of how personal actions will impact departmental resources. -
- Makes
- Data
- Driven
- Decisions: Uses accurate information and good decision making to consistently achieve results on time and without error.
- Fostering
- Innovation: -
- Generates
- New
- Ideas: Willingly proposes/accepts ideas or initiatives that will impact day-to-day operations by offering suggestions to enhance them.-
- Applies
- Technology: Absorbs new technology quickly; understands when to utilize the appropriate tools and procedures to ensure proper course of action. -
- Adapts to
- Change: Embraces changes by keeping an open mind to changing plans and incorporates change instructions into own area of work. Position Qualifications:
Responsibilities
Certifications: Nuclear Medicine - Certification - Others Work Experience: Relevant Work Experience
Experience Level
- Less than 1 year
- Education: Graduate of an approved discipline specific program This role offers the opportunity to make a meaningful impact within Vanderbilt Health, supported by a comprehensive benefits package which may include health, disability, retirement and/or wellness offerings to enhance your well-being and professional growth. Vanderbilt Health is committed to fostering an environment where everyone has the chance to thrive and is committed to the principles of equal opportunity. EOE/Vets/Disabled.
