Echo Sonographer I

Founded in 1941, Dignity Health - Dominican Hospital is a 188-bed, acute care, nonprofit hospital located in Santa Cruz, California. Serving over 80,000 patients annually, the hospital offers a full complement of services including heart care, orthopedics, and a Family Birthing Center. Additionally, Dominican Hospital has been recognized as an LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality High Performer by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. It is a Joint Commission-certified Primary Stroke Center, and has been awarded the AMA/ASA’s Get the Guidelines - Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement, recognizing the hospital’s commitment to providing the best stroke care.

One Community. One Mission. One California 

As our Echo Tech/Sonographer, you will perform diagnostic echocardiography procedures to assist in diagnosing and treating cardiovascular conditions.

Every day you will operate ultrasound equipment to capture high-quality cardiac images and data, ensuring patient comfort and performing a range of echocardiographic studies.

To be successful in this role, you will possess a strong understanding of cardiac anatomy, proficient technical skills, and effective communication abilities to provide exceptional diagnostic services.

• Utilizes the AIDET principle to communicate with others, with a focus on patients and their families.
• Acknowledge Introduce Explain Duration Thank
• Performs echocardiograms, doppler, color flow Doppler and Transesophageal echoes with supervision as required.
• Performs stress echoes with supervision or independently.
• Performs tilt table procedures.
• Schedules and prioritizes tests.
• Performs EKG testing.

Required

• Currently attending or graduate of an accredited echocardiography program and Clinical experience performing echocardiograms, stress echoes, transesophageal echoes, EKG testing, stress testing and Holter monitors independently or with proctor
• American Heart Association Basic Life Support - CPR
• Registered Diagnostic Cardiac Sonographer, within 36 - months