ARDMS SKILLS Hack 2.2.8 + Redeem Codes

I have 5! That I will have to take.. if this replaces the 30 CME’s then I see the point but to require both is soooo much. We are already stressed from the workload and decrease in techs, and if you now require even more… I’m afraid you will push even more into retirement or not maintaining credentials at all. Increase in dues, increase in requirements, decrease in sonographers… NOT A GOOD COMBO

I am already displeased about having to be tethered to apple corporation my entire life because I have a banking app that has to be periodically updated and which means I don’t get to choose whether I want to participate in this great new world of technology. A place where I’m forced to I purchase a phone every two years and the prices are getting ridiculous. Now you want to seal the deal and tether me with additional required quizzes through an application. Think about what the long term implication of implementing this and forcing people to have to upgrade to the latest iOS whether they want to or not.

And not to mention the 30 hours that are already required. Don’t be like apple and Google and everybody else trying to get ahead by doing too much. Look at Facebook now. They are software developers ruining a once enjoyable experience because of over management.
Watch that movie with George Clooney “Up in the Air”, her great idea saves money but isn’t the right way for what they do as a business. Ask yourself, can we make everyone download an app as a requirement?

Is it to replace the 30 CMEs needed to maintain credentials, or is it yet another requirement added on top of them? It’s easy enough to use, but you are required to do quizzes in every area in which you are registered. I’ve got 3- one of which I’ve never used but was required by old boss to get even though my lab doesn’t perform general ultrasounds. So you could say that those quizzes could teach me something, BUT it isn’t anything I’d use professionally- so time waster.

Just another useless organization waiting for your annual fee for a credential any trained monkey could get. Study and regurgitate memorized information to get a plastic card that’s means next to nothing. It amazes me how many people have a credential but still can not perform the fundamental duties of a sonographer. Don’t tell me you’re an RVT but can only perform carotids and lower extremity venous exams. Maybe time to study for my CCI credential and leave ARDMS behind.

What would you say you do here?!? Because it is not support or advocate for better pay, safer work environments or support ultrasound technologists. Hope you are enjoying all our yearly dues for nothing. This is just a joke. These flash cards are sure to assist with my carpal tunnel syndrome and my best friends second shoulder injury. You guys really came in clutch. 🤨🙄

I’ve been doing the quizzes and just realized I haven’t done one in awhile. I went to login and it said my “token” has expired and then went to a login page. I tried to click registrants but nothing happens. If the quizzes are required but the app isn’t working what happens? This is more stress than I need right now.

I just took my first quiz and am disappointed that the organization that credentials sonographers has only ten questions to provide and got one wrong. Who is in charge of editing content? The mmode question where mitral regurgitation was the answer could not be more clearly mitral stenosis. I’m embarrassed for ARDMS and have less confidence in the organization.

Our 30 CME’s should be sufficient. I don’t know any other profession in the medical field that has to do this kind of thing. We went to school and put in our time. We work hard with not enough pay for tearing up our bodies and then get expected to test more. Give me a break!!!

If this is going to be a requirement in ADDITION to the CMEs we already have to take it is complete overkill. I will not take another registry now. It isn’t fair to those of us with multiple registries to have to do so many quizzes. I will not be sitting for any more specialty exams if all it will do is add more to my workload. Thanks for nothing again ARDMS.

We as diagnostic medical sonographers are already overworked, undervalued, and underpaid. We are already required to pay ARDMS a yearly fee and have 30 CME’s within a 3 year period. We already paid hundreds of dollars to take our credentialing exams! Having these quizzes be a requirement on top of everything else we have to do is an insult.