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Last Chance! Register for our complimentary Webinar on Accreditation Certification

July 23, 2012

If you’ve ever asked…”What is accreditation and should we do it?”, you may find a few facts helpful! By attending our “Accreditation, Sonography Now and You!” webinar you can learn more about: Rights of Patients, What written Policies are recommended per an accrediting organization, How Imaging (Sonography) is impacted Most importantly answer the question; “Can we do it ourselves?” The free Webinar is this Wednesday, July 25 from 10am-11am PST.   AND due to popular demand, we are hosting this…

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Topics You’re Interested In…or So We’ve Heard!

June 6, 2012

HI, I am back from Haiti and I’m onto the next task; two days at the office then on a plane to Oregon for an Intermediate Course. You can relate I’m sure to the next task being not one, not two,  but three or more things!  We have had quite a bit happening in our office and one of those “happenings” is getting inquiries about topics we can address!  Some of the topics that are being considered may be of interest to…

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Haiti and Sonography Training

May 30, 2012

It has been an exciting week for Sonogrpahy Now as I (Connie) have joined Hope Imaging for a trip to lands beyond. The home office for Sonography Now has been busy working with PMC’s doing what we do and I am in Haiti working with Hope Imaging and Samaritan’s Purse to train a group of physicians to scan.  I would encourage those of you who have an interest in serving internationally to check out hte Hope Imaging website.  www.hopeimaging.org  We will be having Kama Gregory, from Hope Imaging, doing…

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What’s up?

May 25, 2012

HI, We’ve had a few new things in May; an “Enhancement Grant” with Focus on the Family in Ontario Califonria, building our Registry Prep Program, participating in 3D Training at Samsung Medison!   The Enhancemelnt Grant was the first of it’s type offered through OUP.  While we have provided the Intermediate Course for years, what made it unique was the Focus on the Family OUP provision.  We know sonographer sneed ot continue to build skills and this was a wonderful event to do so. 10 RN…

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Southwest Regional Medical Conference for PC Nurses

April 16, 2012

This past week Sonography Now attended and presented at the “Southwest Region Medical Conference for Pregnancy Center Nurses” (SRMCPCN) held in Tulsa.  It was a wonderful event. Our portion of the conference was a pre-conference half day session that we arranged an Ultrasound Physics.  We invited our friend Dr. F. Meile present and it was great.  He used a fun “Pick Your Topic” format and all enjoyed hearing from him, being challenged by him and taking home new information for immediate application!  We saw many familiar faces as…

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Heartbeat Conference

April 4, 2012

Hi all, We are back this week from the Heartbeat International Conference and have to say…”It was great!”.  We saw many established friends, made some new friends and were blessed by the week.  We took LOU, our mascot,around to exhibits so LOU could meet those who attended.  Take a look under our photo album to see LOU’s travels around the conference.  LOU accompanied us with our friends from Focus on the Family and Sandi from Wyoming to dinner one night…the most…

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Website membership

April 4, 2012

Greetings, We have gotten a lot of positive feed back from our “Live From Heartbeat Webinar”.  Many have asked how to get it to watch again or pass onto other team members.  We have exciting news…you may not have known it, but this year we have launched our new website and part of it is a “Learning Library”.  The Learning Library presently has 12 Power Points to share with your team as well as some Power Points under “Leadership” to be used to educate the expanded…

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Post Training Assignments

March 23, 2012

Hi all co-sonographers! For those of you who do our hands-on training, you already know about the Post Training Worksheets (PTW) and I hope you are seeing the PTW process grow and that you are recognizing your own skills growing as you apply the expert feedback related to those submissions.  Growing that aspect of our training has been important to us as we have tried various methods of providing the needed distance consultation to keep your skills moving ahead.  We are thinking the…

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Sonographer as Clinic Manager

March 12, 2012

In February we launched a new course called “Sonographer as Clinic Manager”.  It is for those who want to hire an RDMS to serve as the Imaging Department/Clinic Manager.  Over the years we have had more and more inquiries about this particular medical model and opted to build a program for it.  It was a success and the RDMS is doing a great job guiding her RN’s in imaging and building a team approach to serving the newly pregnant at…

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February 12, 2012

Greetings readers!  I am happy to report that the 2012 modified materials have been a success.  We are always eager to see how new items are received and so far the scores have been overwhelmingly a “5”, which is highest.  We had a suggestion about the cover, and another about per-training material. Just an FYI, the new website has 6 “Pre-training” worksheets for those who are registered users.   The worksheets can be found in the “Learning Library”. Now onto more fun information.  My first training for…

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10 Year Anniversary

January 23, 2012

For those of you who used Sonography Now for on-site ultrasound training back in 2002, you were among our first training’s and helped launch Sonography Now as we helped launch your clinic. I would imagine that you feel the same as we do…who would have imagined this is where we’d be! In the past 10 years we have had the privilege of working with over 500 clinics, and over 1000 medical professionals; physicians, nurse practitioners, midwives, physician’s assistants, nurses and…

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