Future Opportunities
Today’s lecture spent some time discussing the roadmap for radiographers. We talked about licensure, certification, and accreditations. North Carolina is one of the remaining states that doesn’t require a specific licensure for radiographers. Most healthcare facilities in this state do, however, require the ARRT registration, or that the tech be actively pursuing that registration within a fixed timeframe. We also spent some time discussing extended paths of education beyond the associate degree in radiographic technology. There are several programs available which offer a path to a bachelor’s degree in radiography, and some of them are available as online programs that can be made to fit into a working schedule. We were also introduced to the ASRT and NCSRT organizations and recommended to become student members of both. We didn’t get our test results from Monday today, but we were assured we would get those back this coming Monday. I’m sure I did fine on it, but I wanna see the number :) Our entire lab for this class was spent practicing chest and abdominal exams again, so I believe everyone is comfortable with this and ready for the testing.
In our positioning class today, we reviewed for the test we have coming on Tuesday. We have also moved the lab test up one day, so both of those tests will happen on Tuesday now. I’m ready to get that first lab test completed so I can start working on the competency tests for those procedures.
I have to get started studying for Tuesday’s test tonight…
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