Staff Nurse - RN, Sr. - Medical Management jobs in District of Columbia

Overview

Johns Hopkins Intrastaff is the internal staffing agency for the Johns Hopkins Health System and partner hospitals, providing temporary support to a variety of the Johns Hopkins locations. Our employees are the strength of our service. Intrastaff is unique because it's one of the very few agencies where a person has the benefit of being a temporary employee and also feels like a member of a large organization. Working at Hopkins means joining a culturally diverse team that includes some of the best nurses, physicians and allied health professionals in the world. Directly or indirectly, you'll have exposure to cutting-edge technology and groundbreaking medical research.

Johns Hopkins Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, DC is hiring for a Staff Mammographer

Schedule: 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM. 

Responsibilities

• Under general supervision and in consultation with the Radiologist, performs mammography procedures of a routine and difficult nature.  
• Uses defined procedures, protocols and equipment to provide information to support the clinical diagnosis.
• Verifies that proper anatomical structures of the breast are demonstrated for radiologic interpretation.
• Operates stationary and portable radiographic equipment to perform the procedures.
• Load Cassettes and processes images for final analysis.
• Ensures that equipment is running at its optimum peak.
• Document quality assurance.
• Performs quality control checks on images produced.
• Determines proper technical factors such as voltage, current, exposure time, focal distance which are based on patient size, physical condition and suspected pathology.
• Instructs student technologists and new staff in Radiographic anatomy and positioning and reviews all images performed in training.
• Ensures patient's privacy, safety, and comfort.
• Assist patient on and off of examination table.
• Explains the procedure to the patient.
• Works cooperatively within own unit/department and with other units and departments.

Qualifications

• Requires completion of an AMA approved program in Radiolog­ic Technology or equivalent, which normally is acquired in a two-year college or technical school program. 
• Radiography license by the Maryland Board of Physicians.
• ARRT certified in Mammography with current registration.
• BLS/CPR certification.
• A minimum of 3-6 months experience performing mammography procedures is required.  

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