Diagnostic Medical Sonography: A Career Analysis

My career goal is to become a diagnostic medical sonographer, or an ultrasound technician. Each day as an ultrasound technician will bring new surprises. In the morning a sonographer could be conducting an OB/GYN ultrasound, helping an excited first-time mom see her fetus developing in her belly. Then, then in the next procedure your trying to calm an old woman as she waits to see if her tumors have grown. The days of a medical sonographer are never dull but are challenging, fast-paced, and rewarding. As a sonographer you have the opportunity to help all kinds of different people, from all walks of life, with all kinds of different problems.

I began my undergraduate education at Colorado State University in 2004. I declared my major as Business Administration with a concentration in Marketing. At this point in my life, I had no clue what I wanted to do for my career and thought this would be the best option and give me the most diversity of career options. Going into my sophomore year, I began a job in the emergency department at the hospital located in the college town. During my first day, I got to see a variety of emergent and non-emergent medical procedures. The level of care that the varying healthcare professionals provided to these patients was fascinating and became intrigued to a career path in the medical field. Over the next couple of years, I narrowed the possibility

What is an ultrasound technician you ask? An ultrasound technician is a person employed, skilled, and licensed to use a machine to examine and see body structures such as, tendons , muscles, joints, vessels, and internal organs. The main idea is to find a disease. There is also what you call an obstetric ultrasound which is used specifically just for examining pregnant women.

You ever get that good feeling from helping someone that 's in need. Its many people that needs help or healing in their life. Some need spiritually healing and some need healing physically. He people that help them are amazing people. That 's why I want to become a therapy assistant. I want to help people get back on their feet mentally and physically. This a great occupation to have.

I am preparing for a career as a Medical Sonographer. In order to reach this goal, I have several steps that I have to complete to get there. In the below paragraphs I will discuss these steps. Along with how I think technological advances will affect my career and educational goals in both the near and distant future.

Many of us, as children, had ideas of what we wanted to be when we grew up. From astronauts to doctors and lawyers, our ideas were ever reaching. I don’t recall ever once thinking, I want to be a Medical Coder; now, I want nothing more than to be just that. Throughout this paper we are going to look at exactly what Medical Coding is, the rules and regulations, as well as the requirements for achieving this career. My hope is that, by the end of this paper, you understand my determination and that you may, too, consider this opportunity for yourself.

My interest in technology and curiosity of the human anatomy perfectly binds together in Radiography, especially in the treatment aspect, which is what really caught my attention about this course. I was highly fascinated by the scientific aspect of the course, and look forward to studying the technological approach to medicine – learning to use advance imaging techniques, such as X-rays and MRI Scans. Inspired by my parent’s hard work in healthcare, I was determined to develop an empathetic approach towards other people and eventually gained the desire to be at the heart of modern medicine, by wielding the latest imaging technology to cater to the needs of others.

After completing the interest profiler, I was not able to locate my profession of choice. I’ve always want to be a business owner but if I had to choose a profession from the list, I would have to choose a Parole or Probation officer for starters. To become a parole or probation officer it is a requirement to obtain a bachelor’s degree in human services. According to CFNC.gov, the average annual wage is $39,280. I would say that it pretty much matched my prior knowledge this profession because I’ve done reasearch on it prior to this assignment. Even though, I knew about the annual wages I’m still actually in shock that it is as low as it is. Mainly because of all that they have to encounter you’d think they made more.

For my informational interview, I chose to interview a retired Homicide Detective name Shaun Donelson who is currently now a supervisor for detectives. I interview him because he worked in the field I want to pursue after receiving a Bachelor's Degree in Criminal Justice. After the interview I realized becoming a Homicide Detective is not an easy path to go on there are requirements to follow. The minimum requirements to become a homicide detective is a Bachelor’s Degree and experience as a sworn law enforcement officer. Based on information provided in a detective website an average detective salary in California of $97,260 and this is based on an estimation of an hourly wage of $46.76. However, salary varies greatly depending on where you

Biomedical equipment technicians have a very critical role in the medical community. They are the ones that make sure the medical equipment used on a daily basis functions properly for an accurate diagnosis. Biomedical equipment technicians inspect, test, repair, and perform routine maintenance to a myriad of medical machinery in order to ensure the users ' and patients ' safety. Biomedical equipment technicians use their technological expertise to prevent mechanical and computer errors that could lead providers to the wrong diagnosis. They also set up preventative maintenance programs to keep equipment running and prevent life-threatening

The book, The World Is Flat by Thomas Friedman (American journalist, author, and three-time Pulitzer winner) said, "The key to thriving, as an individual, in a flat world is figuring out how to make yourself "untouchable" (280). The term untouchable means someone whose job will not be outsourced. Automation and outsourcing have displaced workers from their jobs. Workers now a days should be trained to become untouchables so they could maintain fungible jobs. The Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences in Yakima has trained students who would like to pursue professions in the medical field. Medical professions are middle job categories in human skills of a collaborator, adapter, and explainer are extremely necessary. Having more workers

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Recording their height/weight, measuring their blood pressure, taking their temperature, and detaining the reason for the visit. Quickly becoming versed in terms and procedures, I had not known before, I was in heaven. It soon became second nature to write abbreviations like Complaint of (C/O), History of (H/O), Hypertension (HTN), Weight (Wt.), or Rheumatoid arthritis (RA). I was relishing the chance to learn and take in a variety of different diagnosis to discover each day. With each patient that walked in the front door, it was a new learning opportunity for me to observe. I went from looking like I had five heads when I would hear my coworkers discuss things. To becoming proficient when providing the necessary information needed for an insurance company to pay for a patient’s office visit, and not questioning myself when needing to determine the medical code that went along with a

Knowledge, skills, and attitudes are the three core characteristics of a good professional. There are considerable deficits in all three of them, but the knowledge and attitudes I have right now are fairly satisfactory. My skills, however, need improvement the most. SP 124 and SP 158 will be an avenue for the strengthening of those qualities. Two sessions of each subject were allotted for observation in CTS pedia and CTS AA, and it helped us realise which areas are our strong suits, what areas we need to improve on and plan how we are going to eliminate those hindrances to becoming the clinicians we aspire to be.

It is a special ultrasound technique that evaluates blood flow through a blood vessel, including the body’s major arteries and veins in the abdomen, arm, leg, neck and head. There are three types of Doppler ultrasound i.e. color Doppler, power Doppler and spectral Doppler.