Sonographer

population and the demands on healthcare that this causes. With this growth, there will be a demand on more administrators to help run physician offices and hospitals, but this growth does not just include administrators, it involves home health aides, sonographers and therapists. (Healthcare Administration, 2012)…

As a college student, I am studying to be in the medical field. Wanting to be in the medical field has been my dream as a kid. There are many job positions to choose from, we must investigate every single one, because it will be our career and what we live off. I want to become a registered nurse. What is a registered nurse? Well, they are a level higher than a practitioner nurse. Registered nurses, or RN’s, receive a higher pay. What do RN’s do? Well they do a little of everything such as,…

interview, and observation. A psychiatrist is someone who diagnoses, treats, and help prevent disorders of the mind. Radiologist other occupations are radiologist assistant, dosimetrists and radiation therapist, radiologic technologist, and sonographers. Most of these occupations require master’s degree, and some require a P.H.D, M.D, or J.D (law degree). They review or transmit images and information using picture archiving or communications systems. They communicate examination results or…

The liver is located under the diaphragm in the upper right side of your abdominal cavity. It has many important jobs including digestive processes. It also carries out many metabolic and regulatory functions in the body and is also responsible for producing bile to breakdown fats in the food we eat. The gallbladder is similar to a small storage sac, it helps the liver to store bile. The liver and gallbladder connect by the common bile duct. Many disease states can affect these two closely…

Ultrasound Department Policy Name: Prevention of infection in Diagnostic Ultrasound. 1- Purpose: Ensure the protection for those who may be at risk of infection either patients or visitors or even the staff themselves.. 2-Policy: The role of sonographer in infection control by protects themselves, patient and the ultrasound machine cleaning: Protect themselves by: -Wearing clean clothes daily. -Hair covers. -Good hand washing. -Avoid touching eyes, nose or mouth. -Cover your nose and…

In the beginning of the semester in the physics course, we were asked to write an essay on what it means to be a learner in physics. I wrote about the importance of being a good listener. I then discussed the importance of being prepared for class and coming in with a willingness to learn, as well as starting class with an open mind to learning outside one’s comfort zone and taking risks. Amongst a few other things, I mentioned that becoming a successful learner requires effort and dedication.…

back to complete the adoption legalities when as luck would have it we were expecting Twins!!!! It was a difficult pregnancy to begin with given my petite frame, but twins run in my mother’s side. It came as a surprise during my 12th week scan the sonographer said “Here, we see two heads, we have four hands, four feet, two heartbeats” I was nervously jubilant.…

The Left Ventricular Assist Device Congestive heart failure is defined as a disease that develops when the heart is unable to pump enough blood through the body to sustain life. It is estimated that there are currently over five million people in the United States suffering from heart failure (Trivedi, Cheng, Singh, Williams, & Slaughter, 2014). For a patient with heart failure, the best hope of survival is a heart transplant (Dumitru, 2015). Unfortunately, heart transplants are not always…

difficult for me to grasp the information being taught. Most importantly, the main reason I chose Truman State University was because it offers the other majors I am considering if I decide pediatric nursing isn’t the right path. Truman offers medical sonographer, pre-dentistry, and pre-pharmacy (truman.edu). The closest that University of Missouri offers to that is pre-medical…

first-hand. Before my classmates and I wrote our job shadow request letters, Mr. Shoji made us search different careers that we might be interested in. For this part of the assignment, I chose three totally different careers: General Dentist, Obstetric Sonographer, and Environmental Lawyer. Before I this, I didn’t know exactly what path I wanted to take for my future; this allowed me to find out what three career fields I am hugely interested in. After we knew the three careers we found…