Sigma Consulting - Our client, a Diagnostic Centre located in Lagos, that seeks to provide world class medical services is currently recruiting suitably qualified candidates to fill the position below:
Job Title: Sonographer
Location: Lagos
Job Type: Full-time
Job Description
- We are looking for a full-time Sonographer whose job description will include among others taking images of patients' internal organs.
- Personal-Team-Organization
- Prepare exam room and ultrasound equipment to conduct sonography
- examinations in accordance with infectious disease, sterilization, and patient safety protocols, policies, and procedures.
- Assume responsibility for the safety of the patient during the sonographic examination.
- Review patient medical history and supporting clinical information.
- Ensure that the sonography examination order is complete, contains relevant information, and meets the standard of “medical necessity.”
- Evaluate any contraindications, insufficient patient preparation, and the patient’s inability or unwillingness to tolerate the examination and associated procedures.
- Communicate with the patient in a manner appropriate to the patient’s ability to understand.
- Use proper patient positioning tools, devices, equipment adjustment, and ergonomically correct scanning techniques to ensure patient comfort and safety, and to prevent compromised data acquisition or musculoskeletal injury to the Sonologist.
- Conduct patient clinical assessment and perform the diagnostic medical sonography examination ordered by the supervising physician in accordance with professional and facility protocols.
- Apply independent, professional, ethical judgment, and critical thinking to safely perform diagnostic sonography procedures.
- Apply independent judgment during the sonography examination to ensure that appropriate anatomical, pathological, and clinical conditions are accurately captured in the examination images.
- As necessary, acquire additional ultrasound imaging to facilitate optimum diagnostic results for the interpreting physician.
- Identify and document any limitations to the sonography examination
- Review examination images, synthesize examination results, and prepare preliminary findings
- Except as authorized by written facility policies and procedures, refer specific diagnostic, treatment or prognosis questions to the appropriate physician or healthcare professional.
Minimum Requirements
- MBBS with a minimum of 3-4 years experience with the diagnostic industry.
Application Closing Date
17th February, 2019.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online