The Sonographer serves as a medical imaging professional providing clinically relevant information to assist the physician with the diagnosis and treatment of patients. Their role and responsibilities include providing diagnostic medical sonography services and its various clinical specialties. 

JOB FUNCTIONS:

• Prepare exam room and ultrasound equipment to conduct sonography examinations in accordance with infections disease, sterilization, and patient safety protocols, policies, and procedures.
• Assume responsibility for the safety of the patient during the sonographic examination. 
• Review patient medical history and supporting clinical information. 
• Ensure that the sonography examination order is complete, contains relevant information, and meets the standard of “medical necessity.”
• Communicate with the patient in a manner appropriate to the patient’s ability to understand. 
• Use proper patient positioning tools, devices, equipment adjustment, and ergonomically correct scanning techniques to ensure patient comfort and safety, and to prevent compromised data acquisition and musculoskeletal injury to the sonographer. 
• Performs quality control procedures to ensure that the ultrasound equipment operates at optimal levels
• Uses independent judgment during the exam to accurately differentiate between normal and pathologic findings. 
• Review examination images, synthesize examination results, and prepare the preliminary findings.
• Apply independent judgement during the sonography examination to ensure that appropriate anatomical, pathological, and clinical conditions are accurately captured in the examination images.