Sonographers

Requirements

Degree or Diploma in Radiography or Relevant Medical Imaging Science

Main Responsibilities
- Prepare exam room and ultrasound equipment to conduct sonography examinations in accordance with infections disease, sterilization, and patient safety protocols, policies, and procedures.
- Ensure safety of the patient during the sonographic examination.
- Review patient medical history and supporting clinical information.
- Evaluate any contraindications, insufficient patient preparation, and the patient’s inability or unwillingness to tolerate the examination and associated procedures.
- Communicate with the patient in a manner appropriate to the patient’s ability to understand.
- Use proper patient positioning tools, devices, equipment adjustment, and ergonomically correct scanning techniques to ensure patient comfort and safety, and to prevent compromised data acquisition and musculoskeletal injury to the sonographer.
- Conduct patient clinical assessment and perform the diagnostic medical sonography examination ordered by the supervising physician in accordance with professional and facility protocols.
- Review examination images, synthesize examination results, and prepare the preliminary findings.
- Adhere to accepted professional and ethical standards.
- Provide patient services consistent with the Scope of Practice and Clinical Standards for the Diagnostic Sonographer.
- Provide preliminary report of sonography examinations for use by the interpreting physician.
- Assist with the daily operation of the sonography facility.