Clinical Experience

This week is my first week working without supervision in the MRI department. I closed last night by myself and will do the same on Friday. I worked Saturday with a tech named Erin who is new to CDI, but not new to MRI. I was supposed to have two elbows on my schedule last night (one cancelled and one did not show), which I do not feel 100% comfortable with. Since we didn't have any elbows on the schedule Saturday, Erin had me scan an apple. At first I thought it was a slightly crazy idea, but once we started I understood why. An apple is like any body part- it can be seen in three distinct planes. So scanning an apple was like scanning an elbow, I got a scout in all three planes and planned off those. Erin explained that each persons elbow would most likely be position slightly different in the coil, and that was okay as long as I could distinguish which plane I was looking at I could scan it without any problems. So as you can imagine I was highly disappointed last night when neither of my elbow patients came. Hopefully I will be able to scan an elbow later in the week.