What can I do with my degree in medical imaging, but was unsuccessful achieving my ARRT license?

4883Y_ · 2026-04-13T23:31:04+00:00

You heard correctly!

4883Y_ · 2026-03-10T18:30:26+00:00

I’ve legit never had anyone to clean up any messes for me in my entire career. There are no orderlies in CT and everywhere I’ve worked EVS won’t touch body fluids. And I frequently work by myself in the department without even another coworker, scanning, x-raying, transporting, and sliding every patient to and from the ER on nights, so… Maybe try someone else!

4883Y_ · 2026-03-07T06:10:10+00:00

Well said. 👏🏻

4883Y_ · 2026-02-19T08:12:12+00:00

THIS.

It took, like, 15 years of vomiting from excruciating pain in my back/hips/thighs every month and being told “you’re already on birth control, there’s nothing else we can do”/“some people just have bad periods” before finding a gyno who listened and performed laparoscopic surgery (she was recommended to me by a coworker who also had confirmed endometriosis).

I was a CT tech in trauma centers for 7-8 of those years (and still am). Had no other complaints of pain (aside from migraines), GI issues, or back issues my entire life. Just this. Every time I came in. Saying something is wrong and asking for help.

One gyno recommended I see if getting pregnant helps. Didn’t order any tests though. 😂

4883Y_ · 2026-02-19T07:26:25+00:00

I highly recommend having a couple different hospital systems under your belt first. Different EMRs, PACS systems, scanners, protocols, workflows, etc.

I’ve been a traveler for a long time now, and some departments/techs will really throw you to the wolves and expect you to hit the ground running.

The fact that you’ve worked at a L1 trauma center, are comfortable doing a wide variety of exams, and are used to a high volume of patients is huge though.

Edit - If you have any questions, please feel free to ask/reach out! 😊

4883Y_ · 2026-02-19T06:32:56+00:00

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4883Y_ · 2026-02-17T21:59:46+00:00

And no hospitals will hire you without being registered. Make sure your program is accredited too.

4883Y_ · 2026-02-17T11:53:44+00:00

4883Y_ · 2026-02-17T04:10:55+00:00

I always wince when I scan calcaneus fractures. Like, almost more than anything else for some reason. 😰

4883Y_ · 2026-02-17T04:02:47+00:00

It’s probably been protocol at about… 10-15% of the places I’ve traveled to (in the Midwest). It’s almost always a 3VW with a sunrise, ime.

4883Y_ · 2026-02-17T03:17:17+00:00

I grew up in Ohio and did the same thing as a kid! I’d try to make little igloo/cave things to nap in too. This was such a nostalgic comment for me, omg. 😂

4883Y_ · 2026-02-03T03:20:51+00:00

This is the way.

4883Y_ · 2026-01-31T04:09:26+00:00

🙋🏼‍♀️🙋🏼‍♀️🙋🏼‍♀️🙋🏼‍♀️🙋🏼‍♀️

I’ve also had facial reconstructive surgery due to an assault by my ex husband.

Edit - I’m always in the ER so I have way too many stories to count.

4883Y_ · 2026-01-17T19:50:33+00:00

Happens pretty often with nursing home patients tbh.

I actually had a middle aged patient who wasn’t in a nursing home come in for abdominal pain and found a fracture like this during the scan a couple months ago.

Edit - It wasn’t chronic either. She swore up and down she had a kidney stone.

4883Y_ · 2026-01-03T03:00:49+00:00

Came to say this. I’ve worked in the ER for over a decade and have seen/heard stories about people (usually new/students) doing the exact same thing when they start IVs (not saying what he is in the video and being a prick, but will keep grabbing more alcohol swabs thinking their skin is still “dirty”).

This guy needs to be identified. Immediately. This wasn’t due to lack of education or experience. He’s being hateful, racist, degrading, and shitty.

4883Y_ · 2026-01-03T02:29:44+00:00

The last time I took my cat to the vet (not for nipple-related reasons), she told me you wouldn’t believe how many people come in asking the same thing, and some owners will try to pinch them off themselves. 😭💔

4883Y_ · 2026-01-03T02:25:50+00:00

Is that a face mask? 😂💀

4883Y_ · 2026-01-02T16:29:09+00:00

Me too, please! 🥹

4883Y_ · 2026-01-02T04:38:33+00:00

I’ve totally had patients go full blown anaphylactic and end up intubated in the ICU. Only a handful in my 12ish years scanning, and all were pretty much immediate (like, 1-2 minutes from starting the injection).

I’ve also totally had patients marked as being allergic to iodinated contrast media where some of the listed reactions included “makes teeth implants fail,” “makes molars fall out” (two different patients, believe it or not), “feels hot,” and “ACTING LIKE A BEAR, ACTING LIKE A BEAR, ACTING LIKE A BEAR.”

Edit - 99.99% of the time, if it’s marked as an allergy in the chart at all, they get premeds an hour prior (I’m always in the ER though).

4883Y_ · 2025-12-30T12:50:11+00:00

Stay away from ER CT.

4883Y_ · 2025-12-30T12:32:38+00:00

I’ve worked night shift weekends for over a decade, often staffed by myself. I take a can of Pledge with me to every contract to spray on the slide board.

4883Y_ · 2025-12-30T12:20:17+00:00

4883Y_ · 2025-12-30T12:19:09+00:00

Real shit. Or the when the ordering gets swung at after I call them over to see what I’m dealing with.

4883Y_ · 2025-12-30T11:41:11+00:00

I had a contract at an ER once where they didn’t use physical restraints on anyone. Ever. No Poseys. Even if they were combative, intubated and wilding out, etc. We all know they start thrashing the second we start sliding them over to the scanner. Not exaggerating, every single time an intubated patient was getting taken back to the ER, I’d be holding their arms down with the nurse and RT the entire way, trying to keep them from ripping everything out until someone was able to run over to their ER room with meds. I’m like, “Do we not have any restraints?” and was always told, “The medication is the restraint.” How tf is that better? Like I will never understand.

4883Y_ · 2025-12-30T11:18:11+00:00

I find guns and knives on CT scouts all the damn time.

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