Nuclear Medicine Tech

**Why work for Nebraska Methodist Health System?** At Nebraska Methodist Health System, we focus on providing exceptional care to the communities we serve and people we employ. We call it The Meaning of Care – a culture that has and will continue to set us apart. It’s helping families grow by making each delivery special, conveying a difficult diagnosis with a compassionate touch, going above and beyond for a patient’s needs, or giving a high five when a patient beats a disease or conquers a personal health challenge. We offer competitive pay, excellent benefits and a great work environment where all employees are valued! Most importantly, our employees are part of a team that makes a real difference in the communities we live and work in. **Job Summary:** Location: Methodist Physicians Clinic - Fremont Cardiology & Pulmonology Address: 2540 N Healthy Way - Fremont, NE Work Schedule: Tuesday, Thursday, Friday 7am - 3:30pm, part time, 24hrs/week To use a scanner to create images of various areas of a patient's body. Primary location will be MPC Fremont Cardiac Clinic, will need to be available to float to other greater Omaha locations. **Responsibilities:** **Essential Job Functions** Quality & Safety - Quality Control - Follows manufacture's recommendations for quality control of imaging equipment, and is able to recognize defects on daily floods prior to patient use. Maintains complete QC records. - Evaluates the performance of cameras for: - Detector Uniformity, both qualitatively and quantitatively in comparison with manufacturer's specs and initiating corrective action when necessary. - Linearity evaluation. - Spatial resolution checks. - Sensitivity checks. - SPECT QC: High count uniformity flood, center of rotation, energy correction, detector alignment, visible degradation. - Performs dose calibrator checks daily as well as survey meter checks. Heightened Focus on Efficiency - Patient Care - Provides comfort and care to the patient before, during and after the procedure, including the monitoring of intravenous lines, oxygen supply and drains. - Exercises judgment to assess and respond to the patient's needs prior to, during, and after procedures and if necessary performs patient medication reconciliation. - Maintaining proper communication with patients and behaving in a professional manner in consideration and observation of patient's rights. - Providing a safe environment for patients and staff in compliance with standard precaution policies. - Recognizing and responding to medical emergency conditions. - Reviews indication appropriateness and consults authorized to assure the proper study is ordered. - Verifies patient name, Date of Birth (DOB), Medical Record Number (MRN), last menstrual period and pregnancy/breast feeding status. - Obtains a pertinent medical history. - Assures the pre-study preparation has been completed prior to starting procedure. - Assuring that informed consent has been obtained when necessary. - Ensures patient education is provided. - Checks patient clothing and linen for objects that may cause image artifacts. - Maintains adequate volume of medication and pharmaceuticals supplies. - Schedules patients in a timely manner, determining the best sequence for all patients. - Maintains records in Syntrac of patient doses, QC procedures, patient reports and other required data. - Establishing and/or verifying venipuncture access using aseptic technique. - Waits the appropriate length of time after administration of isotope to begin the imaging procedure. - Acquire images using established protocol using proper positioning to best demonstrate pathology and to adapt to the patient's limitations. - Review all images to assure that the correct information is supplied. - Prepare patients for placement of Electrocardiogram (ECG), recognizing and responding to any Electrocardiogram (ECG) changes, Recognizing the parameters that indicate termination of cardiac stress study, and Electrocardiogram (ECG) pa…