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Job Details

Medical Sonographer

Employer

Wosler Diagnostics

Date Posted

November 12, 2024

Languages

English
  • Location Blairmore, AB
  • Earnings $51.50 hourly
  • Work Hours 30 hours per week
  • Position Permanent Full Time
  • Vacancies 1  Vacancy
  • Closing Date Dec 12, 2024
Job Requirements

Employer

Wosler Diagnostics

Languages

English

Education

  • Degree in medicine, dentistry, veterinary medicine or optometry
  • Diagnostic medical sonography/sonographer and ultrasound technician
  • Diagnostic radiology residency programs

Work setting

  • Willing to relocate
  • Hospital/medical facility or clinic

Tasks

  • Analyze the patient during the treatments
  • Operate ultrasound imaging equipment to produce and record images
  • Perform minor repairs and adjustments to equipment
  • Supervise other specialized sonographers
  • Supervise students in training
  • Monitor examination to evaluate quality and consistency of diagnostic images, and make adjustments to equipment, as required
  • Train students or other medical sonographers
  • Record, store and process scanned images by using camera unit connected to the ultrasound equipment
  • Provide personnal asistance to patients during treatments
  • Prepare examination reports for physicians
  • Check ultrasound equipment to ensure proper operation

Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses 

  • American Registry of Diagnostic Medical Sonographers Certification
  • Canadian Society of Diagnostic Medical Sonographers Registration

Area of specialization

  • Abdominal sonography
  • Obstetrical and gynecological sonography
  • Peripheral vascular sonography
  • Adult echocardiography
  • Pediatric echocardiography

Work conditions and physical capabilities

  • Work under pressure
  • Attention to detail

Personal suitability

  • Accurate
  • Client focus
  • Dependability
  • Efficient interpersonal skills
  • Flexibility
  • Interpersonal awareness
  • Reliability

Experience

2 years to less than 3 years

Support for newcomers and refugees

  • Supports newcomers and/or refugees with foreign credential recognition
  • Does not require Canadian work experience

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Interest Codes & Abilities
The Medical Sonographer is part of the following larger National Occupational Classification (NOC).

Interest Codes

Medical Sonographers
OBJECTIVE

Interest in operating ultrasound imaging equipment and in recording, storing and processing scanned images by using camera unit connected to ultrasound equipment; and in performing quality control checks on ultrasound equipment to ensure proper operation and in performing minor repairs and adjustments

METHODICAL

Interest in speaking with patients while observing and caring for them throughout examinations to ensure their safety and comfort

innovative

Interest in compiling information to aid in the monitoring of pregnancies and the diagnoses of cardiac, abdominal, ophthalmic, vascular and other disorders

Reading Interest Codes
A Quick Guide

The interest code helps you figure out if you’d like to work in a particular occupation. 

It’s based on the Canadian Work Preference Inventory (CWPI), which measures 5 occupational interests: Directive, Innovative, Methodical, Objective, and Social.

Each set of 3 interest codes for this NOC group is listed in order of importance.

A code in capital letters means it’s a strong fit for the occupation.

A code in all lowercase letters means the fit is weaker.

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