What's it like to be an x ray technician?
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Since you are interested in a possible career as X-Ray Technician, you may also want to look into becoming a Medical Assistant...\n\nIt's good to know your options.\n\n\nAre you already working in the field and are ready to make career changes? Medical assisting is best described as interesting, challenging, and highly rewarding. In addtition there are many other related allied health professions that medical assistants may find attractive and worth taking a closer look into. \n\nMany experienced medical assisatant elect to crosstrain or transition into these related fields they move on and up the career ladder. Some of them may combine their practical knowledge with their creative skills and become a medical illustrator, freelance copywriter and author, or educator. Others may apply their talents in areas such as medical transcription, medical coding and billing, phlebotomy, or as medical translators.
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East coast fl...I am a Surgical Tech but my aunt is head of the Radiography department. X-ray techs are a vital part of the healthcare industry. It is a reliable and growing field. Ask a local hospital if you can do a "shadow" of the department. Tell them you are going to be entering the program and would like to see how and what is envolved. You can also specialize in areas such as ultra sound tech to. YOu can do both and be more valuable. Try payscale.com for pay. Realize though that you have to consider the type of place, Hospital, or private practice, and many times you can get job placement through school. I hope that you really check on this it is a great area of healthcare.
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Radiology technician. The pay would depend on the hospital and in what country. Most community colleges in the US offer a program of two years. I like radiology and considered it as a specialty at one time.
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Nurses that I have talked to here in USA find it the most wanted job skill at the present time, and well paid.  They are all suggesting that if they had to do it over they would specialize...radiology,  trauma, office management, etc. as dealing with a bunch of females, and a few men, all day, who argue over time off and holidays, is a pain. Pain management is another good field! good luck.
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I have worked as an RT for more than 35 years and I have worked in various areas in the USA and I worked in Saudi Arabia.  Basically my pay has been comparable to that of an RN.  Whenever we deal with humanity and especially closely involved with life & death situations....it can be extremely tense at times.....but I also have a lot of fun with my patients and my co-workers.  Honestly...there have been tears..tears of laughter and tears of sadness.  Rarely am I bored!  I like that I am working in every area of the hospital, because I like working in smaller hospitals.  In larger hospitals RTs often are assigned to a specific area.  My preferences are the ICUs and ERs.  RTs do a lot of work in cardiology and I am fascinated with this. \n\nAs hokey as it may sound, I love being part of a team....nurses, nurse techs,Drs, lab, xray, housekeeping.....they all...truely raise me up to be better than I am.  \n\nRight now you are being challenged in school...as an RT you will be challenged personally, physically, intellectually and emotionally to reach beyond the beyond.....often on a daily basis.  Get ready for the real ride of your life when this part of your education is finished.  By the way....your education will NEVER be finished.  Matter of fact, you have only just begun! \n\nLook, right now concentrate on graduating and then when you get to work as an RT, keep your mind open, work hard and be the best you can be.  Good luck!!!\n\nThank you for asking the question.....I loved answering!!!!
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Yes, you need to become an X-ray technician first. You will have to go to school for two years for that to learn about medical terminology, basic radiation physics, and photographic imaging techniques and chemistry. It gives you an opportunity to work under doctors performing complicated procedures. Starting salary for this is $24,000 a year but you can work up to $65,000 a year. You will need further training to become an ultrasound tech, so you can probably expect to make a little more since this is a more specialized field. Eventually ultrasound tech will probably have its own program (won't have to be an x-ray tech first), but for now, this is the way it is. Good luck and don't let the money stop you if this is something you wanna do!!
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Wow - we can do loads and yes it's a very rewarding job especially if you get a supportive boss (but trust me there are some real shockers out there!)\nWe do reception. nurse, 4 handed dentistry, assist with implants, ortho, oral surgery, help Pt's, mix products and if your trained and pass your exams in the relevant subjects you can take xrays,give oral health education, assist with GA and RA Pt's. BUT make sure you keep training and educating yourself be the best you can be and enjoy the profession.
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My husband(which I am seperated from) attended McLennan Community College in Waco,TX to become a radiology tech. I can't really tell you what a typical day is like but he really enjoyed it most of the time. He then went on to work at three fairly good sized hospitals in Texas. He has since then retired and lives off social security and VA benefits. I don't know if this was any help to you but I hope so!\nHave a nice day!!
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looks like you want to make a lot of money !\n\nyou better get into med school and then graduate near the top of your class because "Radiology" is a very competitive field to enter into. \n\nthe most applicable field in college would be Physics and Chemistry ( so you better be smart ). Med schools love physics and chem majors becuase they generally do very well in med school.  Math is another option.\n\ni myself am a surgeon ( chem major ) but i have 3 close friends who are Radiologists ( extremely smart ) . \n\nI wish you well in your endeavors.
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I would think that anything in the health field would be a good career move for Arizona, depending on where in Arizona you wanted to move. There are several areas that are "active adult" which means the majority of people in the area are over 55. Natually, people in this age group have a consistently higher need for medical care, including radiology. Most of these communities are close to either Tucson or Phoenix, so you don't necessarily have to live in a predominately older community to work there. For instance, the community I live in is over 80% over 55, but we are only 30 miles from Tucson, and closer to Sahuarita which is a family oriented community.
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Why do you want to work here?\n\nWhat do you haev to bring to our facility?\n\nWhat are three strengths you have?\n\nWhat are three weaknesses?\n\nWhat would you do if someone tried to enter a room and they were not wearing a lead apron during a fluoro procedure?\n\nGive and example of how you had to deal with a difficult patient in the past and what did you do?\n\nGive an example of a problem you have had with a co-worker and how did you resolve it.\n\nWhat do you think is the most important part of the MRT code of ethics?\n\nWhere do you see yourself in the next 2, 5 10 years?
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So the hubby is in the way, huh?\n\n I was an EMT on a rig for 2 years on a 911 provider ambulance in So CAL., it was the best experience of my life. I saw many things that people would up and run from. But it served to make me a mature, ambitious, responsible individual capable of leading a team of EMT's or a corporate meeting.\n\nWhat you do;\n-Wait a lot, for calls and patients\n-physical stuff lifting, pulling, pushing, and so on.\n-assist paramedics\n-radio and computer communication\n-customer service\n-vitals, spiking bags, splinting, backbord and c-spine, setting up EKG's, CPR, moving patients, documenting, oxygen therapy\n\nThe pay sucks, you make your money on OT but it opened a lot of doors for me, currently I work per diem in a hospital as a tech, EHS coordinator. You can't pay to get that type of experience. \n\nEMT is definetly not a life career but it is a stepping stone to bigger and better things. \n \nThere is nothing more satisfying at the end of the day knowing that you saved or impacted somebodys life.
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I'm very interested in becoming an radiology technologist, and from what I've heard, nowadays, the equipment is so good and improved that techs recieve little or no radiation.  There are actually little pins that techs can wear to track how much radiation they are exposed to, and like I said, with the new equipment, the pins have been very helpful in confirming the lack of exposure.
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To become a sonographer you first need to become an RT.  Sonographers are RT's who have undergone extra training in Ultrasound.  The RT course gives you training in basic radiography, theatre, fluoroscopy, portables, and dental radiography.  Once this base qualification is achieved, you can specialise in another field, such as CT, mammography or angiography (or education, or health care management, or equipment sales).\n\nI work as a radiographer and I like the diversity of it.  In any one day I can work with a trauma patient, take a couple of mammograms, do a CT scan, take live images in the operating theatre and then do a cardiac angiogram.\n\nSonographers get paid a lot more than regular RT's because, as a scan, it's a lot more operator-dependant.  It's (relatively) easy to take an x-ray - just stick the patient between the x-ray tube and the film and expose.  Sonographers, though, really need to know their anatomy to make sure they're scanning the right spot, and the radiologist relies on their opinion when they make their final report.  Personally, I've never had an interest in sonography, because it seems repetitive to me - spending all day in a dark room leaning over a patient.\n\nA typical day for a radiographer varies, depending on where they work.  There are outpatient clinics where there are 15 minute bookings and the emphasis is getting through as many patients as quickly as possible.  Hospitals are a bit more exciting, but you can see some really nasty trauma.  I work at a small private hospital that has mostly sports injuries and chest pain - no nasty car accidents.\n\nYou can get a really rewarding career out of radiography.  It's a very technical job, but there's a lot of patient interaction, too.  The emergency doctors often ask for your unofficial opinion on the films, so you get to feel like you're really doing something important.  The best part for me, though, is that I've found a really rewarding job where I don't have to take anything home with me - once the patient's been examined, my responsibility has ended.\n\nGood luck with your choice!
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I am in philadelphia and X-ray techs make about twice as more as phlebotomists. Most programs are 6 months to a year depending on how part-time it really is. Where in NY are you?
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Four years college.  Four years medical school. Several years training in the radiolgy specialty, internship, etc.  \nIf you mean a radiology technician - it's a lot less.
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Doing X-Rays, CT, MRI