Creating Life Better Here starts with you. At San Juan Regional Medical Center, we're more than a healthcare provider—we're a values-driven organization dedicated to delivering exceptional care. As a team member, you help fulfill our mission to make life better here for our community.
***4-10 hour shifts
Interventional Spine Radiology Technologists are entrusted to apply their education in the art of imaging, with the intent of providing excellent diagnostic images for the treatment of injury and disease.
Required Behaviors:
- As you go about fulfilling this mission, your work habits and work relationships should embody SJRMC's values. These values are our culture, our identity as an organization. Sacred Trust, Personal Reverence, Thoughtful Anticipation, Team Accountability and Creative Vitality ask more of us than merely completing some list of tasks. Our values ask for a deeper level of commitment, and what is asked of us we freely give because we believe in our mission.
Required Qualifications:
- Completion of formal Radiologic Technology Program
- AART (American Registry of Radiologic Technologists) Registered
- NM State Certification for Radiologic Technology
- Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience operating a C-arm
- Knowledge of normal and abnormal vital signs
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) Certification
- Continuous cardiac monitoring experience including identification of normal or abnormal cardiac rhythms
- Invasive procedural experience involving moderate sedation
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Provides care during interventional spine procedures utilizing industry standards
- Ascertains DNV/ISO standards and specialty recommendations met for department
- Understands the transfer and viewing of images via the imaging storage and viewing software
- Understand the ordering system
- Coordinate care with attending Physicians and other caregivers as needed
- Maintain, clean, and re-stock procedure rooms after each procedure and as needed
- Comprehensive understanding of the medication management system
- May assist with and demonstrates understanding of setting up and maintaining a sterile field
- In-office transportation of patients as needed pre and post procedure
- Assumes responsibility for own personal continuing education and developmental needs. Attends meetings,
- workshops, and conventions to increase clinical skills.
- Provide professional communication with providers, caregivers and patients
- Conducts self in a professional manner
- Each caregiver is responsible for implementing SJRMC’s Service Standards into their daily work: Safety, Courtesy, Effectiveness, and Stewardship
- Other duties as assigned
Physical Demands and Environmental Work Conditions:
- Accepts the risk of exposure to job related illness and injury which may cause long term health problems
- Must be able to see with corrective eyewear, hear clearly with assistance and when required differentiate colors accurately
- Must be able to sit and walk frequently or for long periods of time; must be able to stand, bend, squat, climb, kneel and twist routinely
- Frequent use of the computer and keyboard
- Must be able to lift greater than fifty (50) pounds and push up to three hundred (300) pounds frequently
Special Demands
- Sets limits when dealing with angry, hostile or sometimes verbally or physically abusive patients and families in an attempt to ensure a safe, respectful environment that will support the delivery of care
- Effectively copes and strives for balance when caring for acutely ill patients and families
- Exposure of radiation hazards through radiology procedures
