Nuclear Medicine Technologist
Biddeford, Maine
Southern Maine Health Care Medical Center -Biddeford

Nuclear Med Tech

Location: Biddeford, Maine Employment Type: Travel Contract Length: 13 weeks Hours per Week: 36

Schedule

• No nights, weekends, or holidays
• No on call
• Monday through Friday, days only

Required Qualifications

• Valid Nuclear Medicine Technologist license in Maine
• Nuclear Medicine Technologist with 2 years of experience in the specialty
• Nuclear Medicine Technologist experience within the last year

Role Overview

The Nuclear Medicine Technologist performs a wide range of moderate complexity nuclear medicine procedures independently. The role also includes maintaining equipment, ensuring compliance with safety standards, and performing troubleshooting and quality assurance (QA) tasks.

Responsibilities

• Perform nuclear medicine procedures to acquire images according to established protocols, using professional judgment to adapt imaging when required.
• Use proper patient positioning tools, equipment adjustments, and ergonomic scanning techniques to ensure patient comfort and safety, prevent compromised data acquisition, and prevent musculoskeletal injury to the caregiver.
• Use nuclear medicine radiopharmaceutical and radionuclide software, and assist the facility's Radioactive Materials Program in complying with State and Federal regulations for possession, use, and inventory control of radionuclides and radiopharmaceuticals.
• Acquire high-quality planar, dynamic, whole body, and SPECT/CT images, and manipulate them in post-processing so the best image quality is sent to PACS for physician interpretation.
• Prepare the room and patient for exams, inject radiopharmaceuticals for diagnostic imaging, and calculate, measure, and record radiation dosages received, used, and disposed of according to State and/or Nuclear Regulatory Commission regulations and practice policies.