Course Overview
This is the first of three clinical education courses. The students will be provided with ample opportunities to apply their patient care and patient positioning skills. With this extended term, the students will attain both competency and confidence in the imaging workplace. The primary focus is for patient examinations of the entire skeleton (except cranium), chest, abdomen, and gastrointestinal contrast studies. Students will be scheduled in all areas related to patient imaging practice such as general imaging department, acute/trauma areas, operating room, patient wards, and outpatient clinics. Patient competency evaluations will be performed on patients with varying medical acuity. Students will have weekly academic time of one (1) day per week for self-directed online didactic course requirements.
Prerequisite(s)
- Successful completion of all Level 1 courses
Credits
24.0
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Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion, the student will be able to:
- Professionally interact and communicate with patients, support people and healthcare teams.
- Interpret physician requests, review patient histories, documentation and previous diagnostic studies to plan the procedure.
- Safely transfer and transport patients.
- Safely position and expose patients using appropriate technical factors and protocols for imaging procedures of the chest, abdomen, extremities, spine, pelvis and fluoroscopic procedures.
- Adapt procedures based on patient and equipment limitations, and pathology.
- Evaluate images for image quality and diagnostic acceptability, and provide solutions for corrective measures.
- Identify anatomical variants and pathologies versus normal presentation.
- Apply (post) processing techniques that will best demonstrate anatomy and pathology, and properly archive images.
- Select, prepare and assist with administration of contrast media and pharmaceuticals.
- Determine patient pregnancy status and respond; apply workplace radiation safety standards and advocate radiation safety to patients and staff.
- Assess, monitor, and respond to patients physical, and cognitive needs and condition, prior, during, and post procedure.
- Implement infection control practices.
- Demonstrate judicious use of workplace material resources and adherence to risk management principles.
- Practice in accordance with legislation, medicolegal requirements, professional association and health authority guidelines and policies.
- Reflect on clinical progress and identify strategies to improve clinical practice.
Effective as of Fall 2015
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