Consider Carefully. - Echocardiographer Bristol Hospital Employee Review

Very small echocardiography team serving the entire hospital. I typically completed over 10 echocardiograms in an 8-hour shift. This is in addition to cleaning TEE probes manually, which is a 45-minute process using a very antiquated system. I was required to fill out a handwritten patient log for each day, which was very time-consuming, leaves room for error, and is very 1980's. I loved the perk of "no call", but was required to stay late if an echo order came in for palpitations right before the end of my shift. My 8-hour shift often turned into 10 hours. I frequently went without a lunch break due to being overbooked with outpatients. Documenting contrast is a 10-minute process. The walk from the waiting room to the echocardiography lab is very long- handicapped patients with canes have a very difficult time making it to the lab and it sometimes takes 10 minutes for them. The echocardiography lab is 5' x 5', includes the storage for ALL echocardiography supplies and has very poor ventilation. The PACS system is the worst I've ever used.