See our Rad Tech Week Crossword puzzles here. Since so many employers these days don’t celebrate Rad Tech Week, we here at the TRT Blog are going to do it online! Vendors are always glad to bring treats when they can share a presentation about their products Online Crossword Games and Puzzles It has all the modalities listed and we made about 200 of them. The cost was paid for by Aureus Medical Staffing Company. Here is a Rad Tech Week Coin that I had made in 2014. I typically buy one or two kits, depending on the size of my staff. Now they have a hometown program,” LeClair said.įor more information, call Yavapai College at (928) 445-7300.The ASRT always hosts the annual event and has plenty of Celebration Kits that you can purchase ahead of time. “Prior to this, the closest program was in Phoenix. This September weadmitted 10 students,” LeClair said. “We started with just five students, although we have room for 10. In June 2009, Rich LeClair came on board to head the program. The college applied for a grant and received it. People from the community, the Northern Arizona Council of Governments, the college, allied health and the health care community came up with the program. The program at Yavapai College came about in answer to a need within the community. “It’s a diverse field with lots of opportunities for growth,” she said. Swartfiguer was ecstatic when they chose her. “Just as I finished my prerequisites, they started one.” They said they didn’t but were thinking about one,” Swartfiguer said. “I asked at the start if they had a program. Swartfiguer continued the classes at Yavapai College Verde Campus in Clarkdale. She began taking some of the prerequisites, but circumstances caused a move to Cottonwood. “Mostly, I like it because diagnostic imaging is noninvasive.” I thought right there it was the field of study for me,” Swartfiguer said. “I would take patients to the radiology department and was fascinated by the process. Swartfiguer was a practicing certified nursing assistant working in a hospital in Portland, Ore., when she was first introduced to radiology. She is one of five in the first class, and the only student in Sedona and the Verde Valley. She is a student at Yavapai College in its newly-formed radiology program and is at the Sedona Campus performing clinicals, on-the-job training. Rogue said through radiography a tiny tumor or mass can be detected.Īngela Swartfiguer also loves the work. “Many things can go awry with the body and radiology can detect any abnormality.” Rogue is also trained in CT and mammography. “Usually they come here and they’re anxious and afraid of what might be found,” Rogue said. What Artis Rogue likes most is working with patients and trying to make them feel comfortable about the exam. Radiology has nearly eliminated the need for that, she said. Sometimes they don’t have to cut, but if they do, we can give them a more precise target,” Trabish said.īefore, physicians would perform exploratory surgery. “The doctors have us do our job before they cut. “I’m interested in science, especially anatomy and physiology. Janice Trabish became a rad tech after she attended a high school health fair in Denver. It gives me a lot of satisfaction helping them.” “We take an image of potential problems or anomalies inside the patient’s body. “We’re part of the diagnostic chain,” senior radiographer at Verde Valley Medical Center Sedona Campus Debbie Bauert said.
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