About Steward Health Care
Nearly a decade ago, Steward Health Care System emerged as a different kind of health care company designed to usher in a new era of wellness. One that provides our patients better, more proactive care at a sustainable cost, our providers unrivaled coordination of care, and our communities greater prosperity and stability.
As the country's largest physician-led, tax paying, integrated health care system, our doctors can be certain that we share their interests and those of their patients. Together we are on a mission to revolutionize the way health care is delivered - creating healthier lives, thriving communities and a better world.
Steward is among the nation's largest and most successful accountable care organizations (ACO), with more than 5,500 providers and 43,000 health care professionals who care for 12.3 million patients a year through a closely integrated network of hospitals, multispecialty medical groups, urgent care centers, skilled nursing facilities and behavioral health centers.
Based in Dallas, Steward currently operates 39 hospitals across Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Utah.
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Nuclear Med Tech - Nuclear Medicine - Per Diem Massachusetts State License, National Registry ARRT or CNMT
At Steward Health Care System, we are committed to improving the health of our communities by delivering exceptional, personalized health care with dignity, compassion and respect. Our continued focus on the patient experience informs our caregivers in how to provide care that is respectful of and responsive to individual patient and family preferences, needs and values.
We dedicate ourselves in the communities we serve to delivering affordable health care to all and being responsible partners. No matter what your role, as a member of the Steward family, you are a specialist in the making every patient and family feel right at home, every co-worker a key to our success, and every referring practice, a team of prized colleagues.
In support of this, we commit ourselves to the following values:
Compassion
Accountability
Respect
Excellence
Stewardship
If you are seeking a fast-paced, challenging position in an organization committed to achieving and maintaining a standard of excellence in all we do, our organization may be a good fit for you.
I. Position Function:
Under the direction of a nuclear medicine physician, performs imaging utilizing diagnostic equipment.
Performs radio-pharmacy procedures, quality control procedures, and daily monitoring procedures under the nuclear medicine physician according to NRC guidelines.
II. Job Relationships:
Supervised and/or reportable to the Nuclear Medicine supervisor.
Must be able to collaborate and effectively communicate with physicians, other health care professionals, and patients.
III. Authority:
To decided if a test is correctly ordered, to provide the additional views for a quality study. Reportable top the NRC and JCAHO.
IV. A. Responsibilities/Essential Functions:
1.) "Provides superior customer service to internal and external clients, customers, and patients as referenced in the Service Excellence Standards."
Injection of patients with radio-pharmaceuticals. Checking paperwork to insure the test is ordered correctly.
Radio-pharmacy - prepare kits and draw up doses, quality control according to NRC rules and regulations.
Quality Control of gamma cameras. Daily, weekly, spect Q>C> and assist in quality assurance studies.
Patient imaging - all studies, spect, cardiac, brain, portable and on-call emergency studies. Correct views done.
Correct films taken - labeled properly. Paperwork is in order for the physician to read.
Patient scheduling - to insure proper test is ordered with applicable diagnosis - in a timely fashion. GOOD PHONE SKILLS.
Proper techniques for moving patients. Patient care, bedpans, emesis basins.
Perform bone density studies.
Assist physician with patient therapy. Also 131I total body drinks. Quality Management Program.
Ordering and receiving shipments of radioactivity - packing generator.
Aware of NRC rules and regulations.
Clean-up at the end of the day, monitoring 2 books, patient room if necessary, radio-pharmacy books.
B. Responsibilities/Non-Essential Functions:
Ordering supplies - gloves, syringes, etc.
Clean work areas, laundry supplies.
Rotate shifts - (7:00 AM - 3:30 PM, 8:30 PM - 5:00 AM, etc.).
Take call.
Packing generator per DOT requirements.
V. Reporting Requirements:
Reports immediately to supervisor of any deviation of normal operations.
Reports immediately to supervisor of any unusual occurrences related to patients and machines during imaging.
Reports all incidents.
Reports all spills or misadministrations to supervisor.
VI. Accountability:
Shall be accountable for maintaining the confidentiality and security of all hospital-related, medical staff-related, and patient-related data and information.
Shall be accountable for abiding by all relevant hospital policies and procedures.
Shall be accountable correct calculations in radio-pharmacy and in calculating patient results.
Shall be accountable for proper patient identification by asking the patient's name and checking ID bracelet.
Shall be accountable for observing all policies and procedures of the department.
Shall be accountable for observing all NRC rules and regulations.
VII. Qualifications:
Minimum Education: 2 year degree
Minimum Experience: Nuclear medicine school internship
Minimum skills/abilities: Successful completion of Nuclear Medicine School internship.
Certification/Licensure: Massachusetts State License, National Registry ARRT or CNMT.
Training: Nuclear medicine internship
Special Qualifications: None
Steward Health Care is proud to be a minority, physician owned organization. Diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging are at the foundation of the care we provide, the community services we support and all our employment practices. We do not discriminate on the grounds of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, and or expression or any other non-job-related characteristic.
Location: North 0101.53050 SEH Nuclear Medicine
Schedule: Per Diem, As needed, as needed