Echo Vascular Technician

SKILLS CHECKLIST

Echo Vascular Technician
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Instructions: This checklist is meant to serve as a general guideline for our client facilities as to the level of your skills within your nursing specialty. Please use the scale below to describe your experience/expertise in each area listed below. 
Proficiency : - 1 = Never Performed 2 = Limited Experience 3 = Comfortable Performing 4 = Proficient
Frequency : - 1 = Never 2 = Sometimes 3 = Often 4 = Always
Technique
Use of contrast agents
 
IV insertion
 
IV maintenance
 
Setup errors
 
Technical artifact
 
Other (list):
 
Echocardiography
M-Mode
 
Color flow
 
Real time
 
Stress echo
 
Pediatric echocardiogram
 
Adult echocardiogram
 
Doppler
 
Dobutamine stress echocardiogram
 
TEE (transesophageal esophography)
 
Other (list):
 
Vascular Procedures
M-Mode
 
Color flow
 
Real time
 
Duplex
 
Flow studies
 
Photoplethysmography
 
Strain gauge and Pneumoplethysmography
 
Arterial peripheral upper extremity
 
Arterial peripheral lower extremity
 
Arterial peripheral stress/ pressure testing
 
Carotid artery
 
Vertebral artery
 
Subclavian artery
 
Venous peripheral upper extremity
 
Venous peripheral lower extremity
 
Other (list):
 
General
Quality control of equipment
 
Recognition of malfunctions
 
Transducer selection
 
Image annotation
 
Patient variables
 
Criteria for diagnostic quality
 
Universal precautions
 
Disinfection and cleaning
 
Other (list):
 
Equipment (list):
 
Age Specific
Please indicate the frequence with which you provide care for each age group:
Infant (Birth to 1 year)
 
Toddler (1-3 years)
 
Pre-school (3-6 years)
 
School Age (6-12 years)
 
Adolescent (12-18 years)
 
Young Adult (18-30 years)
 
Mature Adult (30-60 years)
 
Elderly (>60 years)
 
Years Experience in Clinical Speciality :
Most recent facility worked at :