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MRI Tech
Position Type: Full Time Day Shift
$15,000 Sign-On Bonus offered!
Benefits:
- Health Insurance (Medical, Dental, Vision)
- Paid Time Off (PTO)
- 401(k) with matching
- Student Loan Repayment Assistance
- Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package
Job Summary
The MRI Technologist I performs routine magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) procedures to support diagnostic and treatment services. This role ensures patient safety and comfort, produces high-quality images for physician evaluation, and maintains compliance with department protocols and safety standards. The MRI Technologist I is responsible for operating and maintaining imaging equipment, managing MRI supplies, and providing excellent patient care throughout the procedure.
Essential Functions
- Performs MRI procedures according to physician orders and departmental protocols, ensuring high-quality diagnostic images.
- Reviews MRI patient questionnaires and patient histories to identify potential contraindications such as implants or foreign bodies, ensuring safety during scans.
- Operates MRI and processing equipment proficiently, adhering to established safety guidelines and protocols.
- Educates and prepares patients for MRI exams, addressing questions and alleviating concerns to ensure patient understanding and comfort.
- Ensures compliance with MRI safety standards, including maintaining MRI safety zones and verifying patient and staff readiness before entering scan areas.
- Documents and correlates clinical history with exam findings, ensuring accurate and complete information is available for the radiologist.
- Maintains inventory of MRI supplies and equipment, ensuring availability and sterility as required.
- Verifies physician orders and patient identification prior to starting procedures to ensure accuracy and adherence to hospital protocols.
- Collaborates with radiologists, physicians, and healthcare team members to ensure optimal imaging results and patient outcomes.
- Monitors and maintains MRI equipment functionality, reporting issues promptly to appropriate personnel.
- Provides instructions and support to patients during and after exams to promote understanding and satisfaction.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
- Maintains regular and reliable attendance.
- Complies with all policies and standards.
Qualifications
- Graduate of an accredited Radiologic Technology or MRI program required.
- 0-2 years of clinical experience as a registered MRI Technologist required.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Knowledge of MRI principles, safety standards, and imaging techniques.
- Proficient in operating MRI equipment and associated software.
- Strong communication skills to interact effectively with patients and healthcare professionals.
- Ability to assess patient needs and provide compassionate care.
- Detail-oriented with the ability to follow established protocols and procedures.
- Basic computer skills for documentation and image processing.
Licenses and Certifications
- ARRT - American Registry of Radiologic Technologists required.
- ARMRT - Registered Magnetic Resonance Imaging Technologist certification or eligible and obtained within 12 months of hire required.
- BCLS - Basic Life Support required.
Oro Valley Hospital (OVH) is a 176-bed hospital that also has a freestanding emergency center, Northwest Transitions Inpatient Rehabilitation, Skilled Nursing Unit, Behavioral Health Unit, and large physician group. With these varied access points, you have your choice of settings in which to work. OVHs culture centers around providing safe, quality care to patients, but also to foster a work environment based on teamwork, commitment to a shared goal and recognizing employees for all they do to care for our patients. Often described as a "family," the staff at OVH take pride in doing the best they can to care for our community.
OVH is accredited by The Joint Commission and is an equal opportunity employer: race, gender, disability and Veteran status, and VEVRAA Federal Contractor - priority referral Protected Veterans requested.
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Community Health Systems Inc
Community Health Systems, Inc. is a non-profit 501 (c) (3) 330 HRSA Grantee with Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) status. Established from the roots of Inland Empire Community Health Center in Bloomington, CHSI has grown with community health centers in the counties of Riverside, San Bernardino, and San Diego. These centers have been developed in accordance with standards established for safety net providers by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the Health Resources Services Administration (HRSA), the Public Health Service (PHS), and the Bureau of Primary Health Care (BPHC).
As such, services are offered to the neediest in each community - the un-insured and under-insured, the working poor, those with limited ability to pay, the homeless, and the indigent. Services are provided at discounted (sliding fee scale) rates for those who qualify based on gross annual income and family size.