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Hope
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What does the daily schedule look like for an ultrasound technician?
What types of of responsibilities do you have?
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Katie Bryant
Diagnostic Medical Sonographer (ultrasound tech)
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San Tan Valley, Arizona
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Hello Laraine! Typical schedule is varied exams, usually 8-12 exams in an 8 hr shift, busy days could be more.
Susan Mathur
Medical doctor
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Miami, Florida
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Ultrasound Technician specializes and works in one of the following 3 areas:
HEART (Echocardiographer) - per doctor's request, use the Ultrasound machine to check the heart.
VASCULAR (Blood vessels in the body) - per doctor's request, test a particular blood vessel (eg in an arm or leg)
OB/Gyn (Fetus) - in an Ob/Gyn office (mostly), ultrasound the baby of a pregnant patient & give a print to the mom-to-be.
HEART (Echocardiographer) - per doctor's request, use the Ultrasound machine to check the heart.
VASCULAR (Blood vessels in the body) - per doctor's request, test a particular blood vessel (eg in an arm or leg)
OB/Gyn (Fetus) - in an Ob/Gyn office (mostly), ultrasound the baby of a pregnant patient & give a print to the mom-to-be.
Tasha Norman
Sonographer
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Fort Worth, Texas
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It depends what specialty and what kind of setting you work in.
You will pick what specialty you want to get registered in - cardiac (heart), vascular (a lot of programs have gone to dual majors for cardiac/vascular), or RDMS/ general (abdomen and Ob/GYN)
Depending on what you chose, changes the options for settings to work in and whether it's Doctors office/clinic hours or hospital hours with/without call required.
For example, I work for an OB office next to a hospital. We work 4 10 hour shifts but that can be hard to find in clinical/outpatient jobs.
We do our ultrasounds, write reports or get the doctors for abnormalities, clean, stock rooms, etc.
Hope this helps!
You will pick what specialty you want to get registered in - cardiac (heart), vascular (a lot of programs have gone to dual majors for cardiac/vascular), or RDMS/ general (abdomen and Ob/GYN)
Depending on what you chose, changes the options for settings to work in and whether it's Doctors office/clinic hours or hospital hours with/without call required.
For example, I work for an OB office next to a hospital. We work 4 10 hour shifts but that can be hard to find in clinical/outpatient jobs.
We do our ultrasounds, write reports or get the doctors for abnormalities, clean, stock rooms, etc.
Hope this helps!
Laraine Deutsch
Registered Xray Technologist
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Farmington Hills, Michigan
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Laraine’s Answer
I'm a retired Registered xray Technologist.
Depends where you work and the specialties. Actually when you graduate ultrasound and pass the Registry, you're a TECHNOLOGIST!
You could do vascular, breasts, heart, soft tissue, abdomen, kidney stones and more!
Some Techs travel between offices! There's jobs across America!
I hope this helps! I saw you had another question, but I can't find it!
Depends where you work and the specialties. Actually when you graduate ultrasound and pass the Registry, you're a TECHNOLOGIST!
You could do vascular, breasts, heart, soft tissue, abdomen, kidney stones and more!
Some Techs travel between offices! There's jobs across America!
I hope this helps! I saw you had another question, but I can't find it!