Echo Technologist
Springfield, IL
Cross Country Allied
4x10 hrs, Days
Referral Bonus

Job Summary

Ultrasonographer Echo Location not provided. This position performs diagnostic echocardiography across inpatient, outpatient, emergency, intensive care, and procedural settings. Responsibilities include routine, portable, contrast-enhanced, stress, transesophageal, and structural heart studies for adolescent, adult, and geriatric patients.

Job Details

• Schedule: Day shifts, with 10-hour shifts scheduled from 7:00 AM to 5:30 PM and 8-hour shifts scheduled from 7:00 AM to 3:30 PM; 40 hours per week. On-call coverage is required approximately 45 days per 6-week schedule.
• Required Qualifications:
  • Minimum 3 years of experience.
  • Adult acute care, adult outpatient, emergency department, and intensive care experience.
  • Experience with 3-D echocardiography, bubble studies, imaging with contrast agents, M-mode, pharmacologic stress echocardiography, portable studies, routine studies, and treadmill stress echocardiography.
  • Knowledge of isolation precautions and personal protective equipment (PPE).
  • Registered credential through the American Registry for Diagnostic Medical Sonography (ARDMS).
• Preferred Qualifications:
  • Cardiovascular credential through Cardiovascular Credentialing International (CCI), Registered Cardiac Sonographer (RCS), or Registered Diagnostic Cardiac Sonographer (RDCS).
  • Experience with pediatric acute care, pediatric outpatient care, transesophageal echocardiography (TEE), Philips equipment, right ventricular inflow tract (RVIT) and right ventricular outflow tract (RVOT) imaging, and procedures involving patients in intensive care or emergency department settings.
  • Level I trauma center experience.
• Additional Information:
  • Performs inpatient bedside echocardiograms, outpatient echocardiograms, transesophageal echocardiograms, stress echocardiograms, and structural heart procedures.
  • Typical weekday daily census is approximately 3050 patients.
  • Patient population includes adolescents, infants, adults, pediatrics, and geriatrics.
  • Four procedure rooms are available.
  • Weekend coverage is fewer than one weekend shift per 13-week assignment.
  • Up to five non-holiday requested time-off days may be approved.
  • A flu vaccine is required; medical and religious exemptions may be considered.
  • First-time travelers are accepted.

Benefits

The benefits of taking a travel assignment with Cross Country include:

• Private housing or generous housing allowance
• Comprehensive health insurance with prescription coverage
• Dependent health insurance with prescription coverage
• Competitive salaries
• Referral bonuses
• Travel reimbursement
• 401(k) retirement plan
• Direct deposit/free checking
• Unlimited free CE credits