POWERPOINT PRESENTATION

Ximena Carrillo

SON 3100

10/1/13

Why Sonography

It was exactly one year ago that I became interests in Sonography, when unfortunately, my sister in law passed away in Ecuador. She had pain in her stomach for a long time, she went to the doctor several times and they couldn’t find anything wrong with her and kept saying she was fine. She then started to notice bleeding every time she used the bathroom, so my mother in law decided to take her to a different doctor, only to find out she had cancer. Not long after that, they found a tumor in her head and after two weeks, she became unconscious and passed away. This made me realize that the medicine world in my country is not as advanced as here in United States, and I would love to take this advancement in medicine and technology there where we could save a lot of lives.

There are a lot of qualities that makes up a good sonographer, for me one of the most important is to be emotionally stable. We need to have empathy for others, feel their pain; but it is very important that we know how to contain ourselves when it is a hard time for a patient so that we give them strength. Another quality for a sonographer will be having good communication skills. This is important because we are going to have to communicate with other doctors as well as with patients, explaining imaging procedures, so that they understand what they are about to go through. Having technical skills is a good quality for a sonographer as well, since we are going to be operating imaging equipment. We need to follow instructions and pay close attention to our images to help doctors properly diagnose and treat patients.

My responsibility as a sonographer student is related to the responsibility of the faculty and clinical preceptors and in turn to my success in sonography, in the fact that I need to act and behave as if I am already a sonographer. I have to be responsible with all my assignments and be on time everyday for class. I also have to follow all clinical procedures and be careful with my classmates just like I will with my patients. I also have to follow all the teacher’s instructions and close pay attention to everything I am doing. All of these will definitely help me with my success as a sonographer student.

Before this class started, I wasn’t expecting having all these labs. I thought this class was going to be just like a “take note” class with a textbook. I am very thankful for these labs because they definitely helped me determine that sonography is a good fit for me and that this is what I really want to do. The labs gave us a good feeling of what this career is about, and it helped me understand better what I m going to be doing for the rest of my life. It wasn’t easy for me to locate the different organs at the beginning, but in our final lab exam I did pretty good and that just proves that with practice you just get better at it.

If I end up having doubts about sonography in the future, my next choice of interest will be to be a radiologist. Radiology interests me because I find it very similar to sonography; they both have the same objectives, to take images of the human body for diagnostic purposes. But most important of all, is that I will still be able to help a lot of people which is my main purpose.