Hannah Ideis G9 Step 10 (+1yr)

• Enhanced operational performance and reduced labor expenses by developing and optimizing standard practices.
• Encouraged and promoted ideas aligned to business needs and benefits.
• Led associate focus groups and meetings to obtain suggestions, address concerns or issues and foster positive relations among team members and management.
• Collaborated with operations team to provide excellent customer service and foster positive work environment.
• Representative for patient advocate.
• Operates and runs huddles daily.
• Developing space committee ideas and developing safety precautions for Livermore CBOC.
• Handles several calls/Teams messages per day to address customer inquiries and concerns.
• Oversaw daily operations to ensure high levels of productivity.
• Exceeded goals through effective task prioritization and great work ethic.

● Use of agitated saline

Team building in writing reports and correlating results with physicians
●Critical findings are reported to cardiologist within appropriate time
● On call mostly during weekends
● Complete 6 or more echo's per day
● Improving efficiency and documenting important calculations
● Up to date with CME's and CPR
● Stress echocardiograms

• Health stream tasks up to date

GS8-10

• Work independently in Livermore clinic. Responsible to care for patients, build self confidence in understanding critical events and how to follow up with care.
• Administrative work establishing dependable ongoing advancement in the clinic environment.
  ● Oversee office inventory activities and regulatory compliance
  requirements to promote safety and conformance.
  ● Trained new employees at Palo Alto.
  Open communication and objective through following regular
  correspondence and keep updated with schedule updates and
  meetings.
  ● Management including troubleshooting, maintenance, and updates
  with specific software within departments.
  ● Oversee appointment scheduling and itinerary coordination for both
  patients and physicians needs.
  ● Improving customer satisfaction being readily available at all times.
  Improving office operations by patient correspondence, recording
  customer satisfaction with data communications.
  ● Produced spreadsheets and collecting data for work volume and stats
  in Livermore office.
  ● Cardiac Sonographer at VA Healthcare System. Typical assignments
  involve operating medical equipment or instruments in connection
  with variety of procedures which require a high degree of flexibility
  and judgment. Able to recognize evidences of cardiac emergencies on
  echocardiogram including acute myocardial infarction, serious
  arrhythmias, cardiac tamponade, mobile mass, vegetation, ruptured ventricular wall and take appropriate action including notification
  directed to physician, activate code blue team and initiating
  cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Duties and responsibilities include but,
  are not limited to:
  Echocardiograms - work involves highly complex echocardiography
  imaging studies, recording for specific measurement, e.g. cardiac
  chamber size, wall thickness and wall motion, derive calculations of
  ejection fractions, cardiac output and abnormalities of left
  ventricular segmental wall motion. Independent evaluations to exam
  accurately and differentiate between normal and pathologic findings.
  Skilled in analyses and synthesizes sonographic examination and
  medical history and communicates findings to responsible
  cardiologist.
  ● 3D - Derived left ventricular function and chamber quantification.
  Adequately performs full volume and LV quantification.
  ● Doppler Studies - complex study involves using pulse-wave (PW) and
  continuous-wave (CW) recording information (Doppler Signals) for
  obstructive etiologies and regurgitation of valves and digitization.
  ● Transesophageal Echocardiograms - responsibility of setting up US
  equipment, ensuring that machine and TEE probe is unlocked,
  connected and ready for use. Responsible to note serial number of
  TEE probe. Tasks to assist operating and making adjustments to the
  ultrasound machine with best quality views can be visualized and
  recorded.
  ● Bubble Studies - Responsible for setting up syringes to be used and for positioning patient for procedure. Responsibility of operating the
  ultrasound machine so that best quality views are visualized and
  recorded.
  ● Ultrasound Opacification agents - Responsible for determining the
  need for use of ventricular opacification agent. Responsible to know
  risk and benefit of it use and proper handling of the opacification
  agent including storage and injections, responsible for setting up
  syringes to be used and for positioning patient for procedure.

• Same duties as current position. Transferred VA employee.