POWERPOINT PRESENTATION

 

YOU ONLY HAVE TO DO PART 2 OF THIS ASSIGNMENT, I AM ATTACHING MY ESSAY HERE YOU JUST HAVE TO CREATE A POWERPOINT WITH PICTURES AND SOUNDS REFERRING TO MY ESSAY. 10-15 SLIDES. IT DOES NOT HAVE TO BE OVER DONE, JUST SIMPLE. I JUST DONE HAVE THE TIME TO DO IT, IT IS DUE TOMORROW OCTOBER 2.

 

Sonography Overview and Clinical Simulation : Why or Why Not Sonography

 

This assignment is the major source of your final grade for this class.  It is an opportunity to reflect and soul-search.  Please be honest, as your project will help direct you on the correct path to success.

 

Part One: Write a two page essay entitled “Why Sonography” or “Why Not Sonography”.  This must be a scholarly essay.  You must use at least four references in your essay and they must be cited properly, both in the body of the paper as well as a reference page. 

 

Required Elements

 

Part One (Paper)

1. Title page, introduction, body, conclusion, and references.
2. Discuss why you became interested in sonography.
3. Discuss the qualities of a sonographers and why they are important to your success.
4. Discuss how your responsibility as a sonography student is related to the responsibility of the faculty and clinical preceptors and in turn to your success as a student of Sonography.
5. Reflect on your experience in this class and during your lab simulation.  Explain how these experiences helped you to determine if sonography is a “good fit” for you. 
6. If you have doubts about sonography, what other fields interest you?  Why?

 

Part Two (Presentation):

 

1.     Prepare a short PowerPoint presentation (10-15 minutes) about your journey based on the information contained in your essay.  Be creative and incorporate ultrasound images into your presentation. 

2.     The essay and presentation will be graded on content, grammar, spelling, use of technology and format. 

 

Note: You must use APA style.  References must be cited in essay and the PowerPoint presentation.  If you do not know how to write in the APA style, you can get help in the library (LRC).  There are also several sources online that can help you do your citations.    

 

Use the rubric provided to ensure that you have all components to achieve the highest possible score. 

90

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Required Elements

Item addressed	100	70-80	50-60
All parts of essay and presentation (the project) were  completed thoroughly; some extra	Project  has been mostly completed; no extra	Project has been approximately half completed	About 30-45% of project was completed	Project was not turned in
Comprehensiveness Detail/Thoroughness	Project was detailed and thorough; not OVER done; useful by learner	Project was less than thorough or had entirely too much detail;? confusing	Some detail included; Needed more information	Info was not comprehensive at all; no detail; not useable by learner	No detail at all; not done
Relevance	Information chosen was relevant and timely; useful to the learner	Information chosen was somewhat relevant & timely; partially useful to the learner	Some or Little relevance to the learner	Very poor relevance to learner	No relevance to learner
Grammar/APA style	Excellent grammar/ APA style utilized; no mistakes	Very good grammar utilized; 4 or fewer mistakes	Good grammar utilized; 5-10 mistakes	Some grammar issues; several mistakes	Severe grammar issues; Multiple mistakes; learner needs academic referral
Technology	Power Point or other presentation software used with more than four images.	Power Point or presentation software used with three images	Power Point software used; one to two images	Power Point used; no images; slides very crowded	No technology used
Citation	All information is cited; no plagiarism	Most information is cited	Half or less of information is cited	Very little of  the information is cited	No citations used

 

Ximena Carrillo

SON 3100

10/1/13

Why Sonography

It was exactly one year ago that I became interests in Sonography, when unfortunately, my sister in law passed away in Ecuador. She had pain in her stomach for a long time, she went to the doctor several times and they couldn’t find anything wrong with her and kept saying she was fine. She then started to notice bleeding every time she used the bathroom, so my mother in law decided to take her to a different doctor, only to find out she had cancer. Not long after that, they found a tumor in her head and after two weeks, she became unconscious and passed away. This made me realize that the medicine world in my country is not as advanced as here in United States, and I would love to take this advancement in medicine and technology there where we could save a lot of lives.

There are a lot of qualities that makes up a good sonographer, for me one of the most important is to be emotionally stable. We need to have empathy for others, feel their pain; but it is very important that we know how to contain ourselves when it is a hard time for a patient so that we give them strength. Another quality for a sonographer will be having good communication skills. This is important because we are going to have to communicate with other doctors as well as with patients, explaining imaging procedures, so that they understand what they are about to go through. Having technical skills is a good quality for a sonographer as well, since we are going to be operating imaging equipment. We need to follow instructions and pay close attention to our images to help doctors properly diagnose and treat patients.

My responsibility as a sonographer student is related to the responsibility of the faculty and clinical preceptors and in turn to my success in sonography, in the fact that I need to act and behave as if I am already a sonographer. I have to be responsible with all my assignments and be on time everyday for class. I also have to follow all clinical procedures and be careful with my classmates just like I will with my patients. I also have to follow all the teacher’s instructions and close pay attention to everything I am doing. All of these will definitely help me with my success as a sonographer student.

Before this class started, I wasn’t expecting having all these labs. I thought this class was going to be just like a “take note” class with a textbook. I am very thankful for these labs because they definitely helped me determine that sonography is a good fit for me and that this is what I really want to do. The labs gave us a good feeling of what this career is about, and it helped me understand better what I m going to be doing for the rest of my life. It wasn’t easy for me to locate the different organs at the beginning, but in our final lab exam I did pretty good and that just proves that with practice you just get better at it.

If I end up having doubts about sonography in the future, my next choice of interest will be to be a radiologist. Radiology interests me because I find it very similar to sonography; they both have the same objectives, to take images of the human body for diagnostic purposes. But most important of all, is that I will still be able to help a lot of people which is my main purpose.