Job Description

Nuclear Med Technician  

Candidate must have at least two years of Nuclear Med Tech experience within the past three years

Candidate must have PET experience within the past year

Must live live 100+ miles near zip code 85364

 

 

General Certification Requirements (BLS, etc.) BLS, AZDHS

Certs/ARRT (MR) or NMTCB (Nuclear Med Tech Cert Board) & any other specialty certification requirements AZDHS license and either ARRT(N) or CNMT.

All Nuclear Med. Techs need to be certified through AZDHS to work in Arizona. 

They can use either a CNMT license or ARRT (N) license to get the AZ certification.

How many scanners/rooms does this department have?
"1 PET scanner 
3 Nuc Med Cameras"

PET 70% of the time and Nuc Med 30%

Common types of imaging/studies performed & Job Duties "PET CT brain, PET CT whole body, no cardiac 

Nuclear Med: bone scan, whole body scan, brain scans, cardiac pool, cardiac MPI spect, CSF Cisternogram, gastric emptying, HIDA scans, GI blood loss, lung perfusion, parathyroid, renal scans, sentinel node, thyroid, whole body, thyroid uptake, PSA scans soon

" PET CT brain, PET CT whole body

Experience or 'Must have' skills "MUST have IV experience. 

Open to first time travelers with 1 year of experience.

PET and NM experience preferred

Average # of scans/studies per day PET 8-10 (1 tech), and Nuc Med 12-15 (split between 2 techs)

EMR &/or PACS (Picture Archive & Communication System: software & hardware) do they use Epic, PACS- eUnity (General viewer), MIMS (PET viewer)

Department Specific Equipment (GE, Phillips, Siemens) "PET- Mobile unit Phillips Gemini, new machine in Sept

Nuc Med- Siemens "

Lead Tech who functions as an alternate radiation safety officer, will work closely with any new hires

Do they use RRA's (Registered Radiology Assistants)? No
Radiologist in-house? Multiple in house 24/7
Do they have to start IV's? (if applicable to the department) Yes

M-F - 7-3 and 8-4 
Weekend Requirements On call rotation
Holiday Requirements On call rotation

OUTSTANDING SALARY AND BENEFITS PACKAGE!

Job Tags

Holiday work, Weekend work,

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