Radiology Program Newsletter Spring Summer 2011 - Kaskaskia ...
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<strong>Kaskaskia</strong> College<br />
<strong>Radiology</strong> <strong>Program</strong><br />
Volume 4, Issue 1<br />
<strong>Spring</strong>/<strong>Summer</strong> <strong>2011</strong><br />
<strong>Kaskaskia</strong> College<br />
<strong>Radiology</strong> <strong>Program</strong><br />
Inside this issue:<br />
<strong>2011</strong> Outstanding<br />
<strong>Radiology</strong> Student<br />
ARRT Questions/<br />
Mammography<br />
<strong>2011</strong> Most Improved<br />
Student<br />
CT Certificate<br />
<strong>Program</strong><br />
CIVI Certificate<br />
<strong>Program</strong><br />
5k Walk/Run 3<br />
Making a Difference! 4<br />
CE Opportunities<br />
Independent Continuing<br />
Education Classes available<br />
Mammography<br />
<strong>Radiology</strong> Refresher Courses<br />
8 CEU’s or 16 CEU’s<br />
Call 618-545-3363 to set up<br />
dates & times<br />
New grads– don’t start getting<br />
CE until after your<br />
Biennium Begins!<br />
2<br />
2<br />
2<br />
3<br />
3<br />
<strong>2011</strong> Graduating Class<br />
Twenty-seven<br />
students<br />
graduated in the<br />
spring of <strong>2011</strong><br />
from the<br />
<strong>Kaskaskia</strong><br />
<strong>Radiology</strong><br />
<strong>Program</strong>. The<br />
graduates are as<br />
pictured:<br />
1 st row– Brittany<br />
Holtgrave (Carlyle),<br />
Christine Harre<br />
(Vandalia),<br />
Stephanie<br />
Chrisman<br />
(Vandalia), Bethany<br />
Lane (DuQuoin), Josh Leyba<br />
(DuQuoin), Hailey Melton<br />
(Marion)<br />
2 nd row– Mindy Williams (Salem),<br />
Sheena Duncan (Effingham),<br />
Ryan Wing (Vandalia), Dani<br />
Holman (Vandalia), Ashley<br />
Chwascinski (Salem), Jenna<br />
Rendleman (Vergennes), Corey<br />
Berry (Carlyle), Hannah Elliott<br />
(Pocahontas)<br />
3 rd row- Professor Sharon Elwood, Maranda Wood<br />
(Salem) Professor Amber Edwards, Lori<br />
Heinzmann (Effingham), Cassie Gouchenouer<br />
(Altamont), Kelsey Donaldson (Effingham), Tammie<br />
Murray (Vandalia), Stephanie Burks (Central City),<br />
Cameron Niccum (Greenup), Nycole Gregory (New<br />
Baden ) La Christa Niepoetter (Alma), Valerie<br />
Schwend (Breese), Josh Maschhoff (Irvington),<br />
Britany Fishburn (Centralia), <strong>Radiology</strong> <strong>Program</strong><br />
Director Mimi Polczynski,<br />
This profile was created to keep in touch between current and<br />
past <strong>Kaskaskia</strong> <strong>Radiology</strong> Students!<br />
We’re on Facebook!<br />
Go To:<br />
www.facebook.com<br />
Search Keywords:<br />
<strong>Radiology</strong>club <strong>Kaskaskia</strong><br />
(one word)
Page 2<br />
<strong>Kaskaskia</strong> College<br />
Hannah Elliott & Britany Fishburn: <strong>2011</strong> Outstanding Students<br />
The <strong>Kaskaskia</strong> College<br />
Radiologic Technology<br />
<strong>Program</strong> recently named<br />
students Hannah Elliott<br />
of Pocohantas and Britany<br />
Fishburn of Centralia as<br />
the Most Outstanding <strong>Radiology</strong><br />
student for <strong>2011</strong>.<br />
These two students<br />
received the same amount<br />
of votes by their<br />
classmates due to their<br />
many contributions and<br />
academic excellence over<br />
the past 21 months.<br />
Both Hannah and Britany<br />
participated in the Scholar Bowl<br />
Competition at the Annual<br />
ISSRT Conference held in April,<br />
<strong>2011</strong> in Normal , IL.<br />
Britany also held the Vice-<br />
President position of the <strong>Radiology</strong><br />
Club.<br />
Pictured are Mimi Polczynski,<br />
Hannah Elliott, Britany<br />
Fishburn, Amber Edwards, and<br />
Sharon Elwood.<br />
“ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED IN KINDERGARTEN” BY Robert Fulghum<br />
All I really needed to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the<br />
graduate school mountain, but there in the sand pile at school.<br />
These are the things I learned:<br />
Share everything, Play fair, Don’t hit people, Put things back where you found them, Clean up your own mess, Don’t take things that aren’t<br />
yours, Say you’re sorry when you hurt somebody, Wash your hands before you eat, Flush, Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you, Live<br />
a balanced life- learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some, Take a nap every<br />
afternoon, When you go out in the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands and stick together, Be aware of wonder. Remember the little<br />
seed in the Styrofoam cup: they all die. So do we, And then remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned- the biggest<br />
word of all – LOOK.<br />
Everything you need to know is in there somewhere. The Golden Rule and love and basic sanitation. Ecology and politics and equality and<br />
sane living.<br />
Take any one of those items and extrapolate it into sophisticated adult terms and apply it to your family life or your work or government or<br />
your world and it holds true and clear and firm. Think what a better world it would be if we all – the whole world – had cookies and milk at<br />
about 3 o’clock in the afternoon and then lay down with our blankies for a nap. Or if all governments had as a basic policy to always put<br />
things back where they found them and to clean up their own mess.<br />
And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out in the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together.<br />
Sheena Duncan: 2010 Most Improved<br />
The <strong>Kaskaskia</strong> College Radiologic<br />
Technology <strong>Program</strong> recently named<br />
student Sheena Duncan of Effingham<br />
the Most Improved <strong>Radiology</strong> student.<br />
Duncan is a May 13 th graduate of<br />
<strong>Kaskaskia</strong> College and plans to use<br />
her education and find a job in the<br />
field of radiology. Sheena is the<br />
daughter of Judy and Dwight Smith.<br />
Pictured are Mimi Polczynski,<br />
<strong>Radiology</strong> <strong>Program</strong> Director; Sheena<br />
Duncan, Amber Edwards <strong>Radiology</strong><br />
Clinical Coordinator, and Sharon<br />
Elwood, <strong>Radiology</strong> Faculty.<br />
MAMMOGRAPHY<br />
Wanting to become a mammographer<br />
and need the CE’s and clinical<br />
experience? Contact Mimi Polczynski,<br />
<strong>Radiology</strong> <strong>Program</strong> Director at 618-<br />
545-3363. Courses are available on<br />
campus at the convenience of student<br />
and staff to obtain the information<br />
needed to take the Mammography<br />
Registry. A Clinical Education course<br />
is also available for those<br />
students who can not get<br />
training on the job.
Volume 4, Issue 1 Page 3<br />
CT Certificate <strong>Program</strong>– Starting fall of <strong>2011</strong>.<br />
The <strong>Kaskaskia</strong> <strong>Radiology</strong> <strong>Program</strong><br />
will offer a CT certificate program<br />
starting the fall of <strong>2011</strong>.<br />
Classes include the following:<br />
CTOM 220: CT Cross Sectional<br />
Anatomy……….……………...2 credits<br />
CTOM 221: CT Image<br />
Procedures…………………….3 credits<br />
CTOM 222: CT Physics and<br />
Instrumentation……….....….3 credits<br />
CTOM 223: CT Clincals…….8 credits<br />
Total of 16 credits<br />
These courses will be offered every fall<br />
and spring and there will be no<br />
special admittance for these courses.<br />
The only requirement is that the<br />
student has graduated from a twoyear<br />
accredited radiology program<br />
and can show proof of ARRT<br />
certification.<br />
For experienced CT radiographers<br />
who want to take the CT registry, KC<br />
will still be offering a review course<br />
every fall and spring semester.<br />
For more information, contact Mimi<br />
Polczynski, <strong>Radiology</strong> <strong>Program</strong><br />
Director at 618-545-3363<br />
CIVI Certificate <strong>Program</strong>– Starting fall of <strong>2011</strong>.<br />
Cardiac-Interventional<br />
FIRST SEMESTER<br />
CIVI 220: Equipment &<br />
Instrumentation………………2 credits<br />
CIVI 221: Patient Care……...2 credits<br />
CIVI 222: Cardiac-Interventional<br />
Procedures…………………… .3 credits<br />
CIVI 223: Cardiac-Interventional<br />
Clinicals………………………..8 credits<br />
SECOND SEMESTER<br />
CIVI 224: Cardiac-Interventional<br />
Clinicals……………………....10 credits<br />
The Cardiac or Vascular program is a<br />
2 semester certificate program offered<br />
each fall semester. The program<br />
includes both online classroom work<br />
and clinical education. All students<br />
must have graduated from a two-year,<br />
allied health program and show proof<br />
of certification by the ARRT. Students<br />
must submit official college<br />
transcripts from other colleges.<br />
Applicants must successfully complete<br />
a criminal history check and drug<br />
screening prior to enrollment in the<br />
CIVI program<br />
Vascular-Interventional<br />
FIRST SEMESTER<br />
CIVI 220: Equipment &<br />
Instrumentation……………...…2 credits<br />
CIVI 221: Patient Care……......2 credits<br />
CIVI 225: Vascular-Interventional<br />
Procedures……………………… .3 credits<br />
CIVI 226: Vascular-Interventional<br />
Clinicals…………………………..8 credits<br />
SECOND SEMESTER<br />
CIVI 227: Vascular-Interventional<br />
Clinicals……..…………………..10 credits<br />
KC <strong>Radiology</strong> Club receives the PTK 5k traveling trophy!<br />
The <strong>Kaskaskia</strong> College <strong>Radiology</strong><br />
students participated April 16th in<br />
the second annual Phi Theta Kappa<br />
5k walk/run. This event was held at<br />
the college where participants had to<br />
run or walk 3 times around the<br />
campus. The radiology club had the<br />
most participants from the college and<br />
won the traveling trophy for the year!<br />
Participants included the following:<br />
Amber Edwards, Sharon Elwood,<br />
Charity Roedl, Laura Lammers,<br />
Cortnee Mosley, Tiffany Beard, Tomi<br />
Diss, Terri Gowler, Kim<br />
Hardy, Wendi Jo Harre,<br />
and Mimi Polczynski.<br />
Sharon Elwood and Tim Hood
<strong>Kaskaskia</strong> College<br />
27210 College Rd.<br />
Centralia, IL 62801<br />
Phone: 618-545-3363<br />
Fax: 618-545-3389<br />
E-mail: mpolczynski@kaskaskia.edu<br />
<strong>Program</strong> Mission Statement<br />
The mission of the Radiologic Technology <strong>Program</strong><br />
at <strong>Kaskaskia</strong> College is to provide comprehensive<br />
educational opportunities that will enable the<br />
graduate to become an entry-level Radiographer.<br />
The program is designed to develop and instill a<br />
sense of obligation in the student to become a<br />
contributing member to the profession.<br />
<strong>Kaskaskia</strong> College<br />
<strong>Radiology</strong> <strong>Program</strong><br />
Become a member of <strong>Kaskaskia</strong> College Alumni & Friends!<br />
Contact Debbie Jones at 618-545-3226 or www.kaskaskia.edu/alumnifriend<br />
MAKING A DIFFERENCE!<br />
In some instances, <strong>Kaskaskia</strong> College<br />
<strong>Radiology</strong> Students make a distinct<br />
positive difference in the lives of a<br />
patient, fellow students, or<br />
radiographer in the clinical setting.<br />
Students have specific job descriptions<br />
and understand what is expected of<br />
them in their job performance but in<br />
certain circumstances, some<br />
<strong>Kaskaskia</strong> College <strong>Radiology</strong> Students<br />
have gone far beyond the structures of<br />
their job description to help others.<br />
If you catch someone in the act of<br />
going over and above what is expected<br />
at their clinical setting, let us know!<br />
This is your opportunity to “expose” a<br />
student for their good deeds and<br />
benevolent gestures. Please think<br />
about any student who has gone that<br />
extra mile and consider nominating<br />
him or her for exemplary performance<br />
of duties beyond the confines of the<br />
job description. We will acknowledge<br />
those individuals who are nominated.<br />
The class of <strong>2011</strong> had one student,<br />
Hannah Elliott, who was nominated<br />
by a radiographer at one of her<br />
clinical sites. Hannah was nominated<br />
due to her display of a positive<br />
attitude and great work ethics!<br />
The class of 2012 had two students,<br />
Kyle McCoy and Rae Lynn Harris who<br />
were honored with the “Making a<br />
Difference” Award.<br />
Congratulations!