FINAL CLINICAL WEEK

This couple of weeks I saw exams that I had never seen, a foot and also a shoulder. I thought the foot was confusing, because the orientation was backward of what I expected. I will need lots of them in order to feel comfortable trying to get a comp on it. The shoulder was not as bad but I'll still need to see a few more. I love challenges so as much as I can I will still be in MR during our break and maybe by next semester I will comp on every procedure I do. This has been a great semester and I am looking forward to learning everything there is to know about this awesome modality that I have come to love.

Week 13

This week in clinicals has been uneventful, I was going to see a wrist exam ( first one), but the lady cancelled. I am learning allot of spine work of course, and brains, I have not seen much of lower extremity work but I still have time. I do feel like in x-ray it's all beginning to click to me and by next semester I'll won't have as much trouble checking off on procedures. The tech who is training me is very strick, Friday I was trying for a cervical and because I right clicked in the wrong box she wouldn't give it to me, but you know I really like that because I feel if I get a competency on a procedure I know I have done something.

CLINICALS

My experiences these past couple of weeks has been about the same. I did a thoracic spine on a young lady I did very well and I was pleased with myself, but I couldn't get check off on in because I didn't let the tech know from the beginning. The check-off I did try on a knee I thought I was ready and I messed up right from the start so I didn't even ask. I still think MR is the coolest modality in our field.

Week 9

This is week 9 of MRI clinicals and for the last few weeks I really haven't done anything new. I feel I 'm learning allot by mastering the procedures I've already learned, but of course every patient and situation is different and in radiology that is when things can get difficult.

Lumbar MRI

The other day in clinicals we scanned a 78 year old woman who had fallen in her bathtub in July of 07. I hadn't seen her previous films so you can only imagine my jaw opening when her scout came up. Radiologist findings were "burst fracture at L2 with significant impingement upon the thecal sac". I hope this image shows up good so you can tell were the bone displacement is pressing on the cannal. This is not the actual image of the lady, but is similar.

My First Blog

Hi! My name is Michelle Cline. I am a mother of two little boys Nicky who is 12 and Cameron who is 7. I am married to a wonderful man name Collin who is very supportive of my education and as we all know you need allot of support to do this. I am currently working at Caldwell Co. Hospital as their weekend tech. I love my job and it gives me the opportunity to have a family life during the week and go to class on line during slow periods on the weekend. I hope to have a wonderful semester I'm sure I will cause I knew I wanted to learn MR since x-ray school.