Please Someone Help!!!!

Sounds to me like you need to go to your local community college and get some straight scoop. You cannot plan a career they way you appear to be going about it. How, for example, can you possibly want to be an ultrasound tech without knowing anything about it?

You can't make a sound judgment by going to a nursing web site and expecting to get career info on an imaging profession.

Good luck!

Kevin

hello my name is kim and im new to this site. Im hoping someone could answer a few Q's for me. i really want to pursue a career as an ultrasound sonographer but i just dont know where to start! i need to know what steps i should be taking toward becoming an ultrasound tech. From what i understand, before i can take the actual ultrasound course, i need to have an associates degree in an allied health field.is that correct? can someone tell me what the allied health fields are? and what and i was also wondering if i could get my associates degree online and then go to a college for the ultrasound,or do i have to go to a campus to get my associates degree? any info anyone could give me would be very much appreciated. thank you so much!

I know a lot about nursing programs and little about ultrasound, but I will tell you what I do know. In a community college where I live, you do not need an associates degree to enter the program. You simply need to take some pre-req courses, if I remember correctly they were physics, A&P 1, A&P 2 and some other classes. Try contacting community colleges in your area, or private schools. I stress, make sure the programs are certified. You can find out which programs are certified in your state in this website:

http://www.sdms.org/career/selection.asp

An allied health field can be a medical assistant, as well as a diagnostic medical sonographer ( or ultrasound sonographer)

In this website they list all the Allied health careers:

http://www.explorehealthcareers.org/en/index.aspx

Hope this helps! and good luck

I think the first thing you need to do is go to your local Jr college and they will help u better than I could. And just Google "how do I become ....." and that might help too.

At our junior college you had to be an X-Ray tech before you could take ultrasound. To be an X-ray tech you just had to go through the junior college's x-ray tech program, then pass the national test. But as the others have said, the best way to find out is to go in to a local school and ask.

A&P is short for Anatomy and Physiology.

http://books.google.com/books?id=Dzr2pRTzxaEC&dq=anatomy+and+physiology&printsec=frontcover&source=bll&ots=AIlNXIi__Z&sig=sQxaqsHd65YS5kAZWxm8zUQdlmo&hl=en&ei=1ClES5SlGJS1lAeDqp2iBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=13&ved=0CDwQ6AEwDA#v=onepage&q=&f=false