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Intermountain Healthcare

Nonprofit health system delivering patient care

Radiology Practitioner Assistant PRN

Advanced Practice ProvidersConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Part-timeButte, MT, USA$47.38 - $73.11 /hrIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • Graduate from an educational program recognized by the Certification Board for Radiology Practitioner Assistants or the American Registry of Radiologic Technologists (Registered Radiologist Assistant).
  • Validate participation in continuing education activities with a minimum of 50 continuing education credit hours in each biannual period.
  • Maintain active radiographer registration status.
  • Hold current Basic Life Support certification.
  • Hold current Advanced Cardiac Life Support certification.
  • Be certified by the Certification Board for Radiology Practitioner Assistants or eligible for its certification examination, or be certified by the American Registry of Radiologic Technologists or eligible for the Registered Radiologist Assistant certification examination.
  • Demonstrate patient care, customer service, patient flow, clinical staffing and support, life support, health care, and intravenous insertion skills.
  • Be able to see and read information and labels, assess patient needs, operate monitors, and identify equipment and supplies.
  • Be able to communicate verbally and hear and understand spoken information, alarms, needs, and issues quickly and accurately, particularly during emergencies.
  • Have manual dexterity to manipulate complex and delicate equipment with precision and accuracy, and use computers for documenting patient care, accessing information, and medication preparation.
  • Be able to lift and move patients and supplies, walk and assist with patient transport and ambulation, push and pull gurneys and portable equipment, navigate busy rooms, and stand in one position for extended periods.

Responsibilities

  • Evaluate the day's procedure schedule with the supervising physician and imaging staff during morning report to determine where the assistant's skills will be best utilized.
  • Evaluate medical images, review preliminary reports and images with a supervising physician, and prepare technical reports for the supervising physician to review and sign.
  • Assess and evaluate each patient's physiologic and psychological responsiveness.
  • Participate in patient management following review with the supervising physician.
  • After demonstrating competency and under the supervising physician's guidance, supervision, and discretion, perform direct procedures including pneumocentesis, thoracentesis, abscess drainage, aspiration, paracentesis, lymph node biopsy, thyroid biopsy, bone biopsy, lumbar puncture, arthrograms and joint injections, peripherally inserted central catheter placement, chest tube placement, and central line placement.
  • Under the supervising physician's guidance, supervision, and discretion, perform indirect procedures including cystogram, voiding cystourethrogram, nephrostogram, loopogram, hysterosalpingogram, modified rehabilitation swallow, esophagram, upper and lower gastrointestinal studies, small bowel follow-through, port injections and removals, and tunneled catheter removal.
  • Place procedure orders and prepare pre-procedure notes and histories and physicals.

About the Company

Intermountain Healthcare

Nonprofit health system delivering patient care

Intermountain Health is a nonprofit health system that provides medical care and related services across the Mountain West. It operates hospitals, clinics, a medical group, home care, telehealth, and health insurance plans, along with subsidiaries, to bring care closer to people’s homes and communities. Its care model combines direct patient services with research and education to tailor treatment and reduce costs. What sets it apart is its size and scope as the region’s largest nonprofit health system, its integration of hospitals, clinics, home health, telehealth, and insurance under one umbrella, and its mission to reinvest in care and make health more affordable. The company aims to help people live the healthiest lives possible by expanding access to care, improving quality, and reducing costs through its community-focused approach and ongoing research.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
Grant
Total funding
$1.9M
Headquarters
Salt Lake City, UT
Founded
1975

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