Katelyn Coyle

At this clinic, I was cross-trained from radiologic technology to ultrasound. I mostly scanned women throughout their pregnancy or for any other gynecological issues. I also saw a variety of general outpatient
studies such as; abdominal, thyroid, liver/gallbladder and soft tissue. My duties included:

• Writing in depth reports for radiologists and physicians as some doctors did not go through radiologists before the merge.
• Collaborated with physicians to discuss imaging results and recommendations.
• Carefully scanning to not miss anything and be detail oriented while still giving the best patient care/experience possible and in timely manner.
• Keeping my room clean, comfortable, and stocked at all times
• Reviewing patient priors beforehand to get familiar with any previous or existing diagnoses

Throughout my x-ray career at this hospital I worked a variety of different shifts. 10-hour evenings, 7am days, 16-hour shifts during the peak of COVID, and lots of call for overnight shifts. Performed various duties related to x-ray technology.

• Covering ER and floor patients as quickly and efficiently as possible
• Running up to the OR in between x-ray exams for many different surgery cases such as; orthopedics, general, and
  neurosurgery
• Setting up and assisting in a variety of fluoroscopy cases including: lumbar punctures, myelograms, arthrograms, VCUG's,
  and swallow studies
• Assisting radiologist in needle localizations for pre-op breast biopsies

At DOC, I worked as a radiologic technologist and a guest ambassador.. which is a fancy way of
saying front desk staff. Here is where I learned how to:

• schedule patients to multiple different locations in the DFW area to their specific providers
• verify insurance, check their coverages
• greet patients as guests to our facility instead of customers
• take DME inventory
• deescalate situations in regards to payments/ insurance coverage
• As an x-ray tech we were required to take x-rays for the orthopedic surgeons, so I learned a few different ways to broaden my critical thinking skills with specific views the providers wanted.
  I also acted as a medical assistant to the surgeons by taking vitals, history, fitting DME, removing casts and assisting with any pain injections or knee aspirations.

SACMC was my first job after graduating from the radiology program. I worked the evening shift for the first year with only one other person to help me cover x-ray and CT. My responsibilities including:

• responding to traumas in the ER and covering x-ray and CT for the entire hospital while working skeleton crew
• trauma surgery cases
• administering both oral and IV contrast for CT exams
• assisting radiology assistant with fluoro cases
• dexa scans

ARRT (R)