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Finding Her Niche Pam Fredrickson discovers her true calling as an Invasive Cardiovascular Technologist.
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am Fredrickson knew healthcare was her true calling; the problem was finding the right specialty to enter in to. She remembers, “I attended two different colleges in South Dakota and couldn’t seem to find the right program for me. I knew that I wanted to work in the healthcare field and I didn’t want to start over with a four-year program, so I looked into Southeast Tech. After doing some research in the health sciences programs offered, I decided that Invasive Cardiology was the most interesting to me.” With two previous college experiences to draw from, Pam was happy to feel as though she fit right into her new program at Southeast. “I really enjoyed that the class sizes were small and informal and the instructors were very personable and had an interest in each student. I have kept in touch with most of my fellow classmates and have formed good friendships with many of them. My instructor made sure that each of us succeeded.”
Pam Fredrickson, Registered Cardiovascular Invasive Specialist and STI Graduate
After a challenging year and a half of classroom instruction, Pam spent seven months in clinical training to finalize her education. “Since we work invasively on patients it wasn’t possible to perform angiograms in our labs, however, Southeast has a lot of technology in the practice lab that simulated a real angiogram so we did get to practice before our clinical. We had a broad spectrum of classes that opened our education up to more than just invasive cardiovascular technology. We became well rounded in
our education, yet it was all relative to our field.” Today, Pam Fredrickson is a Registered Cardiovascular Invasive Specialist at the Avera Heart Hospital of South Dakota, and thoroughly enjoys her satisfying and personally rewarding career. A career that has placed her at the right hand of the physician in many cases as she assists in critical and invasive cardiac procedures. “I’ve been in the field for 12 years and we have a really great group of people that work together. The nurses and the doctors and