Upperman Installing Ultrasound Equipment

Upperman High School installing new portable ultrasound equipment to use in the school’s health science program.

CTE and Health Science Teacher Stacey Moss said they plan to use the tool with students in her diagnostic medicine class. Moss said the new equipment will help her teach about patient care, infection control, and diagnostic procedures and outcomes.

“They’re getting to tie in everything they’ve learned from their intro class all the way to their third and fourth year level classes,” Moss said. “They’re getting to tie in all that together by taking a procedure from, you know, the basic step one all the way, you know through step ten and either diagnosing or reading results.”

Moss said the device is a great opportunity for students to get hands-on experience with real industry-grade equipment. She said they chose to purchase this equipment specifically because it would advance the program while working well with the state standards they need to fulfill.

“Kind of worked hand-in-hand with, you know, what we have and what we need and what we’re allowed to get,” Moss said.

Moss said their goal is to have the device ready to go and being used in the classroom later this semester.

“There’s a lot of, like, loose ends you have to tie up, you know, and accounts you have to make and passwords and all that stuff that comes with any of this digital stuff,” Moss said. “So I think I’m just kind of excited to get it up and running and, you know, get it out there and let them kind of see it and use it, get their hands on it, you know, and teach them some of these procedures.”

Moss said the equipment allows her to introduce students to digital imaging in an easier, more controlled environment.

“It’s really hard to, like, do X-rays and take them through the whole nine with imaging stuff,” Moss said. “So this was kind of a small thing that we could get that helps them understand imaging.”