Keeping it Real: The Blended Technologist

Is your facility feeling the staffing crunch? Have you been asked to step outside of the role of a routine radiographer and cross-train into another modality? With today’s facilities maintaining patient care with minimal staff it can place special demands on those who are required to cover multiple work areas within the diagnostic department. This course is designed for the novice or experienced technologist and will take a 2010 look at the multi-modality workplace. You will be asked to take a look at yourself and find ways to polish up your professionalism. Next will be a review of how to protect yourself and the patient in both routine and higher radiation exposure work areas. In the event you administer contrast media or work with infused patients, it is important to understand how contrast media works and how to recognize reactions quickly to minimize side effects to the patient. The final topic will provide an overview of emerging imaging practices that you may be asked to add to your list of skills today or in the near future.

Course Topics
• Professionalism: Medicines Contract with Society
• What is Professionalism?
• Strategies toward Professionalism
• Radiation Safety in the Multimodality Workplace
• Reasons for excessive exposure
• Dosimeters
• Pharmacology and Drug Administration
• Administering Contrast Media
• Contrast Media: Managing Adverse & side affects
• The Cross-Trained Radiographer
• Computed Tomography Overview
• Magnetic Resonance Imaging Overview
• Cardiovascular-Interventional Overview
• Case Studies