I agree with this petition and monitoring the number of patients a sonographer should scan a day.
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Anonymous
8 years ago
Time for employers to support our concerns.
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Ki Yoko
8 years ago
Samantha Vinson
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Olga Uzlyakova
8 years ago
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Scanning Ob/Gyn patients for about 15 years.No ergonomic furniture- this is a really an issue, I have to stand most of the time during scanning, no back, elbow support. Right side pain- neck, shoulder, arm, wrist...Love what I do but it’s getting difficult now.
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Carolynn Mullin
8 years ago
Most sonographers work in pain throughout their careers. Some experience pain that comes and goes, other work in constant pain.
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Suhad woddi
8 years ago
Have been dealing with this problem for years now. Work related injury could and should be prevented! It's horrible that we suffer so much physical damage to our bodies!
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Anonymous
8 years ago
RVT
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Romney Speerschneider
8 years ago
This is so important to address!!!
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Elaine Monney
8 years ago
Long overdue... thank you!
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Michelle Cheshier
8 years ago
Perinatal Sonographer x 23 Years..,,2 right rotator cuff surgeries and a right elbow surgery
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Terrie Diaz
8 years ago
It’s about time we become advocates for each other. We have to take care of our own. Because nobody else will. We are easily replaceable according to most job sites.
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Anonymous
8 years ago
Ultraound is defiantly hard on the techs body. There should degibatlybe some kind of guidelines for how many patients can be done per shift to keep those who tend to not care from abusing the sonographers.
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Candice Gray
8 years ago
Our profession desperately needs guidelines for the amount of exams we do per day in order to protect our technologists and provide better patient care.
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Kathy Hellums
8 years ago
I have been scanning 22 years. I have left shoulder pain, eight elbow pain amd chronic back amd neck pain. All of which I attribute to repetetive motion during scanning.
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Cindy Gresham
8 years ago
My shoulders and neck hurt every day of my life from having to perform so many scans a day and from having to push so hard on morbidly obese patients. Our profession is abused. If a patient weighs more than the table limit for CT, MRI, Xray, or any other imaging service they order an ultrasound. If a table cannot support them, what makes someone think a sound wave and me pushing on them will. Not to mention the patient is getting charged for a useless exam. I have been told before by supervisors that it’s ok that I scan 18 a day while coworkers scan 4, as long as the work gets done. I am punished because I have a good work ethic and do not make patients wait while I’m handling personal matters at work. At least if we have some support from OSHA or anyone who makes it mandatory we only scan a certain number of exams and sets standards about weight limits, then maybe we can save career ending injuries for many sonographers.
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Bridgette Fowler
8 years ago
Sonographer and WRMSD sufferer.
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Billie Justice
8 years ago
I have multiple herniated discs and lots of problems with my shoulders. I’ve been an Echo/Vascular tech for 18 Years.
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career ending
I agree with this petition and monitoring the number of patients a sonographer should scan a day.
Time for employers to support our concerns.
Samantha Vinson
Scanning Ob/Gyn patients for about 15 years.No ergonomic furniture- this is a really an issue, I have to stand most of the time during scanning, no back, elbow support. Right side pain- neck, shoulder, arm, wrist...Love what I do but it’s getting difficult now.
Most sonographers work in pain throughout their careers. Some experience pain that comes and goes, other work in constant pain.
Have been dealing with this problem for years now. Work related injury could and should be prevented! It's horrible that we suffer so much physical damage to our bodies!
RVT
This is so important to address!!!
Long overdue... thank you!
Perinatal Sonographer x 23 Years..,,2 right rotator cuff surgeries and a right elbow surgery
It’s about time we become advocates for each other. We have to take care of our own. Because nobody else will. We are easily replaceable according to most job sites.
Ultraound is defiantly hard on the techs body. There should degibatlybe some kind of guidelines for how many patients can be done per shift to keep those who tend to not care from abusing the sonographers.
Our profession desperately needs guidelines for the amount of exams we do per day in order to protect our technologists and provide better patient care.
I have been scanning 22 years. I have left shoulder pain, eight elbow pain amd chronic back amd neck pain. All of which I attribute to repetetive motion during scanning.
My shoulders and neck hurt every day of my life from having to perform so many scans a day and from having to push so hard on morbidly obese patients. Our profession is abused. If a patient weighs more than the table limit for CT, MRI, Xray, or any other imaging service they order an ultrasound. If a table cannot support them, what makes someone think a sound wave and me pushing on them will. Not to mention the patient is getting charged for a useless exam. I have been told before by supervisors that it’s ok that I scan 18 a day while coworkers scan 4, as long as the work gets done. I am punished because I have a good work ethic and do not make patients wait while I’m handling personal matters at work. At least if we have some support from OSHA or anyone who makes it mandatory we only scan a certain number of exams and sets standards about weight limits, then maybe we can save career ending injuries for many sonographers.
Sonographer and WRMSD sufferer.
I have multiple herniated discs and lots of problems with my shoulders. I’ve been an Echo/Vascular tech for 18 Years.
Please help us from injury!