Course Overview
This is the first of four clinical education courses. The course focuses on attaining competencies on procedures of the entire skeleton (excluding cranium and thoracic cage), chest, abdomen, gastrointestinal system, fluoroscopy and operating room procedures. 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. In addition, students will be scheduled on various shifts including days, afternoons and weekends to experience a variety of procedures. Patient competency evaluations are performed on patients with varying medical acuity. The course provides students with opportunities to apply their patient care and positioning skills. Students will become both competent and confident in the imaging workplace. Students will have weekly academic time of 1 day per week for self-directed online didactic course requirements.
Prerequisite(s)
- Successful completion of all TERM 1 courses
Credits
15.5
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Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Adhere to legal and regulatory requirements, apply ethical principles, and demonstrate professional integrity
- Demonstrate social responsibility and cultural awareness
- Establish and maintain effective communication
- Obtain, evaluate, and share information with assistance
- Employ effective team processes to coordinate patient care in low acuity settings
- Manage conflict in collaboration with others
- Practice in a manner that contributes to safe care
- Conduct relevant patient assessment in partnership with patients and families with assistance
- Provide compassionate care for patient's physiological, cognitive and psychological needs, with some adaptations to positioning and/or protocol in response to common patient conditions
- Comply with appropriate infection prevention and control standards and/or regulations
- Provide education and support to patients and families/support persons with assistance
- Prioritize workflow to optimize patient care with assistance
- Identify and report safety incidents to enhance systems of care
- Demonstrate self-awareness
- Integrate safe work principles and procedures into practice
- Manage a variety of imaging systems
- Integrate clinical principles into practice for procedures mentioned below
- Perform diagnostic and therapeutic procedures
- chest, abdomen, extremities, spine, pelvis, and fluoroscopic and specialized procedures
- Administer substances required for clinical procedures
- Analyze image and data quality and respond for low acuity levels and common skeletal pathologies, anomalies, and conditions with assistance
Effective as of Spring/Summer 2025
Related Programs
Clinical Education 1 (MRAD 2330) is offered as a part of the following programs:
School of Health Sciences
- Medical Radiography
Diploma Full-time
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