The tough job market continues to affect me. I got hired at the VA as a fee-based CT technologist on a part time basis. I was told that I would work 5 days a week every other week until the two full-time open positions were filled. This was supposed to take me at least into the fall of this year. In an unprecedented turn of events, the usually ...

This week I finally had the opportunity to do a brain perfusion CT. One of our senior technologists was available to show me what to do. She is an excellent teacher, so the whole experience wasn’t as bad as I had initially anticipated. The post-processing isn’t too tough; just very tedious and unlike any other post-processing I do. The perfusion ...

Each shift, I work with a senior technologist who is in charge of all that takes place. I appreciate the leadership. but often from shift to shift I am told to do things differently. This has made the learning process difficult and slower for me because you can't exactly tell your superior “No, I want to do it this way.” As I'm becoming ...

I continue to struggle to learn how to do the more difficult exams like CTA head, CTA neck and CTA upper/lower extremities. Performing these exams isn't the tough part ,as many of you know; it's doing the recons and postprocessing. We are often too busy to slow down for someone to assist me, or I'm too mentally exhausted to make an attempt. Not ...

I had a great weekend back at work. Everyone was very happy to see me and even people in other departments stopped by to welcome me back. This felt great! It really is true that a vacation can make all the difference when you are stressed out from work. I thought I'd have a tough time readjusting to my schedule after being on vacation, but this ...

Recently the number of infants and children I’m scanning seems to be increasing. This population presents many challenges for me and my co-workers. How do you get an infant to stop crying and hold still long enough to get a diagnostic study? How do you deal with the scared parent(s)? Also, is a CT scan really the best option for a child due to the ...