CT Technologist
Phoenix, AZ
Travel Nurses, Inc.
3x12 hrs

CT Tech

Location: Phoenix, Arizona Employment Type: Travel/Contract Contract Length: 13 weeks Patient Age Groups: Neonates, infants, pediatrics, adolescents, adults, geriatrics Specialty: Radiology / Cardiology

Schedule

• Shift: Night, 3 x 12-hour shifts (19:00 to 07:30), Saturday, Sunday, and Monday
• Hours: 12 per day, 36 per week
• Call: No call
• Floating: Possibly as needed

Required Qualifications

• Valid CT Technologist license in Arizona
• CT Technologist (2 years of experience)
• CT Technologist experience within the last year
• One completed travel assignment
• BLS issued by American Heart Association
• ARRT (CT)
• CTCT
• Experience working with Level 1 Trauma patients
• Experience in an Acute Care setting
• Experience in an Outpatient setting
• Experience in an Emergency Department setting
• Experience with Coronary CTA
• Experience with 3D imaging
• Experience with Multiplanar reconstruction (MPR)
• Experience with Vascular CTA
• Experience with CT arthrography
• Experience with Myelography

Required Skills

• Level I Trauma
• Work settings: Adult acute care, adult outpatient, ED, pediatric acute care, pediatric outpatient
• Imaging: Abdomen and pelvis; chest; head and neck; spine and musculoskeletal; coronary CTA; CT arthrography; myelography; vascular CTA
• Image display and post-processing: 3D rendering, multiplanar reconstruction (MPR)
• Clinical skills: Isolation precautions; preparation and/or administration of contrast media; radiation safety; starting peripheral IVs; venipuncture
• Equipment experience: GE, PACS

Preferred Skills

• Aspirations, biopsies, brain perfusion, colonography or virtual colonography, drainage
• Teaching hospital experience
• Community hospital experience

Onboarding Requirements

• Background check: Completed within 1 year of start, including SS trace, 7-year county, national criminal, and FACIS III searches. International search not required. Sex offender search, EPLS/GSA/SAM, and HHS/OIG checks required within 30 days of start.
• Education verification: Highest completed education must be verified. A copy of a diploma or official transcripts is accepted.
• Fingerprinting: Required for CT techs. Results must be on file within 90 days of start, and proof that the process has started is due within 7 days of start.
• Identification: Current, valid driver's license, government photo ID, or passport.
• Licensure verification: Primary source verification within 15 days before start. License must be current and unencumbered.
• Technician certification verification: National primary source verification within 15 days before start.
• Physical exam: Completed within 1 year of start and must confirm good health, freedom from communicable disease, and no physical limitations. Examiner's title must be included.
• Tdap: Within 10 years of start. Td is not accepted.
• TB screening: QuantiFERON or T-SPOT within 1 year. PPDs are not accepted. If a prior positive result exists, a chest X-ray within 5 years, proof of the positive test, and a TB questionnaire within 30 days of start are required.
• Measles, mumps, rubella, varicella, and hepatitis B: Positive titer or proof of 2 vaccines, or a documented hepatitis B declination within the last year. Negative or equivocal titers require booster doses before start.
• Drug screen: Negative result within 30 days of start. Rapid tests are not accepted. Must include amphetamines, barbiturates, benzodiazepines, cocaine, fentanyl, meperidine, methadone, opiates, oxycodone, PCP, and methamphetamine.
• Flu vaccination: Required during flu season (October 1 to March 31), or an approved medical or religious exemption. Candidates with exemptions must wear a mask.
• Fit test: Required within 1 year of start and updated annually. Can be completed onsite during orientation.
• Work history: Employment application and current resume covering the last 7 years, with explanations for gaps over 30 days. Third-party verification of the past 3 years of employment.
• Skills checklist: Must be current within 1 year.
• Facility documents: Confidentiality form and contract staff orientation acknowledgment. Completion of an online orientation module (about 35 minutes) with proof of completion before starting.