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Medical Instrument Technician (Echocardiography)
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 1 days ago
On-siteGreen Bay, WI$90K – $117KApply by Jun 3, 2026Medical Instrument TechnicianESTJESTPISFPISTPTrades
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OUR MISSION: To fulfill President Lincoln's promise "To care for those who have served in our nation's military and for their families, caregivers, and survivors" - by serving and honoring the men and women who are America's Veterans. How would you like to become a part of a team providing compassionate whole health care to Veterans?
What You'll Do
- →Total Rewards of a Allied Health Professional DUTIES: Performs diagnostic quality images and Doppler frequency shift recordings using M-mode, 2-D, pulsed and continuous wave Doppler spectral display and color flow Doppler imaging.
- →Performs complex procedures such as cardiac studies of the 4 chambers of the heart and valves using sector scanning techniques to detect stenotic and incompetent valves, chamber enlargement, and pericardial effusion, thrombus and pressure gradients across obstructed valves.
- →Performs Dobutamine and exercise stress.
- →Adapts transducer positioning, instrument controls and examination techniques to the individual patient and to the problem to be evaluated.
- →Monitors patient's condition during procedures and reports significant findings according to policies and procedures.
- →Accurately documents information in the medical record and any other clinical or administrative applications.
- →Is proficient in the operation, calibration and maintenance of the specialized equipment in the ECHO suite.
- →Completes encounters on all ECHOs performed, using the correct CPT codes, diagnosis, service connection status and other fields as required and assists management in overall encounter practices in ECHO suite.
- →Communicates effectively and professionally with employees at varying grade levels, patients and their families, and customers from outside facilities.
- →Assists in the development of new policies and procedures that pertain to the echocardiography suite.
- →Assists the scheduling MSA in determining appropriateness of consults, triage and priority when needed.
- →Independently maintain competence with Peripheral IV insertion for contrast use in Echo studies Be sufficiently familiar with cardiac related symptoms, cardiac auscultation results, medical terminology, and other pertinent diagnostic tools in order to assess possible areas of cardiac abnormality or rule out or validate a suspected diagnosis.
- →Analyze echo tomograms to obtain a diagnostic quality echo by adjusting the position of the patient's body, adjusting respiratory rate, and probe position as well as machine controls to obtain at least one diagnostic quality heart cycle in a given projection.
- →Echo exams are operator (rather than equipment) oriented.
Requirements
- ✓You must be a U.S.
- ✓Citizen to apply for this job.
- ✓All applicants tentatively selected for VA employment in a testing designated position are subject to urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment.
- ✓Applicants who refuse to be tested will be denied employment with VA.
- ✓Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959.
- ✓Must be proficient in written and spoken English.
- ✓Subject to background/security investigation.
- ✓Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process.
- ✓Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements (https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents).
- ✓Effective May 7, 2025, driver's licenses or state-issued identification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.
- ✓Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP).
- ✓Complete all application requirements detailed in the "Required Documents" section of this announcement.
- ✓As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you may/will be required to serve a 1 or 2-year trial period during which we will evaluate your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest.
- ✓In determining if your employment advances the public interest, we may consider: your performance and conduct; the needs and interests of the agency; whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the Government; and whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 45b1d655-5958-4f84-8487-7e95bbee1b4b
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