What are the responsibilities and job description for the CT Technologist position at Bakersfield Memorial Hospital?
Job Summary and Responsibilities
Operates Single Slice and Multi-slice Computed Tomography (CT) scanner to produce cross-sectional radiographs of patient's body for diagnostic purposes by performing the following duties. Safe operation and care of CT equipment and exposure of patients to radiation for diagnostic information. Must be able to provide professional and quality care while following hospital policies, procedures and standards. Performs all duties of a CT technologist on a daily basis and provides direct patient care to patients ranging in age from pediatric through geriatric.
Job Requirements
Minimum Qualifications:
- California Diagnostic Radiologic Technology license (CT-RTT) and BLS required.
- Certified through ARRT in Computed Tomography (Cat Scan) required.
- Previous CT experience required.
- Education level necessary to obtain required licensure and certifications.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Minimum of two years' as a Radiologic Technologist preferred
Special Qualifications:
- Ability to read an interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedural manuals.
- Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of the hospital.
- Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions and decimals.
- Ability to compute rate, ratio and percent and how to draw and interpret a bar graph.
- Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
- Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram or schedule form.
Please be advised that this location requires quarterly American Heart Association (AHA) Resuscitation Quality Improvement (RQI) competency certification post-hire. This ongoing competency is required through resources internal to the facility; outside RQI competency resources are not acceptable for CommonSpirit Health compliance requirements.
Where You'll WorkBakersfield Memorial Hospital includes 385 general acute beds, 48 licensed critical care beds, 13 state-of-the-art surgical suites, and a full-service Emergency Department with an Accredited Chest Pain Center and Nationally Certified Stroke Center. In addition, we offer a beautiful Family Care and Birthing Center, the Lauren Small Children's Center including the area's only Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Family Care Center, a Level II NICU, the Sarvanand Heart, and Brain Center with Kern County's first Bi-Plane Interventional Suite, the Center for Wound Care and Hyperbarics, and many more services. Memorial Hospital is a Children’s Miracle Network Hospital and is home to the Bakersfield Ronald McDonald House. Memorial Hospital is a member of Dignity Health and is a trusted community partner, serving residents of Bakersfield and Kern County with quality, compassionate care since 1956. Click here to learn more about Bakersfield Memorial Hospital.
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