Spectrum Healthcare Services, a medical staffing agency, is recruiting for a Diagnostic Medical Sonographer or Vascular Technologist for a facility in Columbus, IN.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Ultrasound Tech

• Corroborates patients' clinical history with procedure, assuring information is documented and available for use by a licensed practitioner.
• Prepares patient for procedures; providing instructions to obtain desired results, gain cooperation, and minimize anxiety.
• Selects and operates ultrasonic equipment and associated devices to achieve desired results.
• Positions patient and equipment to best demonstrate the anatomic area of interest, respecting patient ability and comfort.
• Immobilizes patients as required for appropriate examination.
• Determines ultrasonic frequency and transducers for established protocols.
• Exercises precautions in patient applications, respecting the biological effects between ultrasound and tissue.
• Evaluates static and dynamic images and recordings of available data for technical quality, assuring proper identification are recorded.

Vascular Technologist

• Provides for physical examination including but not limited to skin characteristics, pulses, auscultation, capillary filling, elevations/dependency changes, and various vascular pressures.
• Understands and is capable of Doppler, velocimetry, and duplex imaging.
• Verifies informed consent for, and assists a licensed practitioner with interventional procedures; needle localizations, aspirations, biopsies, and amniocentesis.

Position Details
Work Setting: Hospital
Job Type: Travel or Local Contract
Length: 13 weeks
Start Date: ASAP
Shift: Wed-Fri, 11:30a-midnight 
Call: No
Weekly Hours: 36
Travel Weekly Gross: $2,340/$65.00 hr.
Local Weekly Gross: $2,016/$56.00 hr.

• Satisfactory completion of a formal Ultrasound training program or equivalent training to meet board eligibility requirements
• Registered Diagnostic Medical Sonographer (RDMS) or Registered Vascular Technologist (RVT) certification required
• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification required