Course Overview
This is the second of three clinical education courses. The students will continue working on their patient care and positioning skills providing them with opportunities to become both competent and confident in a different imaging department. The focus will be on attaining competencies on procedures of the entire skeleton (excluding cranium and thoracic cage), chest, abdomen, gastrointestinal system, fluoro and operating room procedures. In addition, students will gain experience in CT, and specialized 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, nights and weekends to experience a variety of procedures. 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)
- No prerequisites are required for this course.
Credits
19.0
- Retired
- This course has been retired and is no longer offered. Find other Flexible Learning courses that may interest you.
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 from imaging procedures of the chest, abdomen, extremities, spine, pelvis and fluoroscopic and specialized procedures.
- Perform unenhanced and enhanced CT scans of the head, neck, chest, abdomen, pelvis, spine and extremities.
- 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 the patients physical, and cognitive needs and condition, prior, during, and post procedure.
- Implement infection control practices.(B4.1, B4.2, B4.3, B4.4, B4.5, B4.6, B4.7, B5.1)
- 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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