An ultrasound technician helps doctors and other health professionals diagnose patients' ailments. He or she operates special equipment that uses high-frequency sound waves to record images of internal organs. (link removed) They may specialize in obstetric and gynecologic, abdominal, breast, vascular, or cardiac sonography(link removed) />


Requirements and Experience:

• Customer service abilities including effective listening skills

• Critical thinking skills, decisive judgment and the ability to work with minimal supervision in a fast-paced environment

• Ability and willingness to travel outside of assigned market up to 30% of the time

• Ability to perform work that requires frequent standing, bending, reaching, squatting, kneeling, moving, lifting of patients and/or equipment up to 50 pounds

• Graduate of an accredited school in Ultrasound technology

• Bachelor’s degree in healthcare related field preferred

• Five (3) years of experience post internship/externship preferred

• Registered Diagnostic Cardiac Sonographer (RDCS) or Registered Cardiac Sonographer (RCS) required to perform Echo cardiograms

• Must be registered in specific ultrasound modality they perform, e.g. vascular, general

• Current certification in Basic Life Support (BLS) required