tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32362670799048382892024-02-18T23:45:48.767-08:00Just ain't RightAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07040322626052481345noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3236267079904838289.post-17230602889723688312017-10-11T19:23:00.000-07:002014-09-17T23:51:50.785-07:00Rad Tech Salary, Education, Working Condition & Career<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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To become a rad technician, one has to complete <b>at least a 2-year associate degree from an accredited community college to be eligible to sit for the required professional exams and practice</b> (according <a href="http://www.wikihow.com/Become-a-Radiology-Technician">http://www.wikihow.com/Become-a-Radiology-Technician</a>). Furthering one's education into a <b>4-year radiology program</b> and even going further, greatly enhances one's chances of attracting more income for themselves and being entrusted with much higher positions and responsibilities as well. One is required to have <b>a sound mastery of the human anatomy and physiology, some physics, radiology safety and dealing with patients</b> without aggravating them in any way. There are clinical or practical sessions that one is required to take right after going through classroom courses to help them better their skills with dealing with the radiology equipments that they will encounter every day in their career.<br />
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Unlike what most people outside the medical profession think, the working environment and conditions of a rad tech is <b>very clean and exciting</b> for all that would like to jump into the profession. A radiologic technologist operates very sophisticated state-of-the-art radiology equipment designed to <b>take clear and accurate images of virtually any part of the body</b>, and present them to physicians and other medical professionals for diagnostic purposes and further analysis of patient's health condition.
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The environment is <b>very clean, quiet and formal with many interactions with other medical professionals</b> who rely on the radiological imaging to make their diagnosis or to ascertain certain kinds of medical conditions before they proceed further with their patient's treatment options. The salary for a X-radiation technician in the current job market, is in the upwards of $65,000 and is foretasted to increase (source: <a href="http://radiologytechniciansalarysource.com/">http://radiologytechniciansalarysource.com</a>). There are bound to be some variations depending on one's locality or region of employment as well as their level of education and experience in the field. Whatever the variation, <i>a medical radiation technologist should expect to have a secure job with a very steady and decent income</i>.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07040322626052481345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3236267079904838289.post-1759709479139714722017-10-10T19:43:00.000-07:002014-09-17T23:52:32.488-07:00Reasons to Become a Radiology Technician<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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As the day goes by, similar situations continue to present themselves and just like the <b>colors of the rainbow that can mix themselves into an infinite number of hues</b>, so is the nature of experiences that come with this position, and it is very exciting indeed. Overall, this is a very exciting career that involves <i>handling lots of technological equipment in a very clean and professional environment as well as dealing with other medical experts in a very fast-paced environment</i>. It is true that the academic requirements or the college training to become a radiology technician can be quite a challenging or daunting task for many student; however, the benefits that come after competing the radiology program and landing oneself a job, are far much rewarding and over-compensates for the struggle. This is definitely a <b>financially rewarding career with great job security and a really promising outlook not only in one country or locality, but all over the world</b>. This is a really great time to become a radiology technician, and I really enjoy it.<br />
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Pursuing a <a href="http://justaintright.blogspot.com/2014/09/career-as-x-ray-technician.html">career</a> is significant investment of time and money, so really investigate whether this is what you want to do. Research the career to ensure it matches your goals and values and also realistically assess your strengths and weaknesses to determine if it fits. Do you like working with people? Are you OK with working with the sick? You have to be able to work with sick people. And arrange time to job shadow a <a href="http://justaintright.blogspot.com/2013/10/radiology-technician-education.html">radiology tech</a>. If you’re from a High School go to your guidance counselor. If you’re interested in coming for a job shadow let them know. I do it all the time. I have students coming from different High Schools that come and job shadow one of our Techs or I take them around the department and get them to see what we really do. It’s one thing to listen to me talk and tell you what I do on a daily basis but something completely different to actually see it in action. So I highly recommend that.<br />
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I always wanted to be in the medical field but I didn’t what to be a Doctor, I didn’t want to put in the hours and I didn’t want to be a nurse so I went looking and this is what I found. I thought: Oh yeah! It’s Radiology! Those are kind of cool. Taking pictures of bones and other stuff. But once I got into the program and I actually gone to the floor, I’m working with patients and talking to people and dealing with that type of environment, I really love it. I can’t say that I don’t love my job. I love caring for people and that’s to me, I like being part of the solution to the problem. And that’s really what you are. You are part of the solution to the problem. That patient has something wrong. You are part of the solution to how they’re going to get cared for to make them better.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07040322626052481345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3236267079904838289.post-60757583984762531562015-08-12T02:57:00.000-07:002015-08-12T02:57:00.635-07:00Will demand for workers Increase or Decrease?We’re getting into that stage now where the baby boomers are slowly starting to walk out, to retire so there are more jobs coming up in the next, I would say, in the next five years. But like any other profession we go through peaks and valleys. It goes up and down. It’s hard to say in the future what’s going to happen. Our hospital is expanding constantly so we might have more jobs available in the next five to ten years, just from expansion alone. So it’s really hard to say.<br />
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I really don’t know! For example we have an MRI unit right now at the Health Sciences Center. One of the only ones in North America, let alone the world, that actually can move. It’s an MRI unit that can move between three separate rooms. It can be in an angiography suite, which is where we do the vessel imaging, it can be on its own just to do general imaging and it can also move into an OR suite. So it can also be used in the operating room. They’re just starting to use it now. So it’s innovative but by the time that we got it in there was already a new one down on the market. So everything is changing constantly.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07040322626052481345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3236267079904838289.post-11900327853493245682015-07-13T02:50:00.000-07:002015-07-13T02:50:00.141-07:00What is necessary in the future?<img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4Sgc4pfdP1yIa3yBqX2nPW_QnnpxhwM_8Hkve6JzpNhiK08NBXELNfp6THOr_ThOkRIqugIMj44KWiobhiIP6IXubJuYYPiTFAb0W1jiSWtcvYd0cHAtTKYTdLZjc46kZmr12xeRX4CST/s1600/500x500.jpg" height="231" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" width="320" />
Do I have experience in other occupations or volunteer positions? Well, I’ll admit! I worked in the retail sector for a while when I was a teenager. I worked in New York for five years when I was in high school. I have to admit working in retail definitely helps because you learn how to work with people, how to work with management, how to deal with customers which actually take it into working with patients. Because really they are a costumer. We don’t call them that but that’s really what they are. I also used to teach Ukrainian dance for many years, just dealing with different ages of people because we do have the children’s hospital as well. You have to learn how to deal with kids, different personalities, how to resolve conflict. When you’ve got two kids in your group that don’t want to dance together or talk to each other, well guess what? I’ve got two students over here that don’t want to talk to each other or work together either, so it’s helped me in that regard.<br />
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What changes have I seen? It’s dramatic! The changes that have happened the last five to ten years in radiology alone are huge. We’ve gone from processing film, which is taking that hard copy, putting it through the machine, going through all the different chemicals, through the drying station and coming out on the other side so that we can put it up on a view box to look at. We don’t do that anymore. It’s gone! We’re all digital. This is an example of one of the rooms we have at the Health Sciences Center. It’s a digital room, there’s no film. Nothing! Everything is within the system itself and within minutes after taking the – actually it’s not even minutes, it’s seconds! – after taking your exposure you’ve got an image coming up on the screen. So much faster! So much quicker to put patients through. But again, it’s a computer, there are many days I which I could go back to the old way of doing things because it didn’t breakdown as often as the computer does. But it definitely… we are moving forward. CT is constantly changing. We can’t keep up. MRI is the same. They’re always thinking of different ways, newer ways. Less dose to the patient, safer, it’s constantly, constantly changing.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07040322626052481345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3236267079904838289.post-65443259028084565492015-06-22T02:42:00.000-07:002015-06-22T02:42:00.446-07:00Where can you go after Radiology?<img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_9yjvuIxjdekFlcZww0d5gOkgtaXADhcSU41Hf1tYW_P9ZOJmfYSHkT7FEQCwEoLYi5Rfcj3EJV3XKBRHG5G-K0FShxRpatamyJjafn6BPFFrSCv0J7dsQwELL6jS4mr43XODYITzsFO-/s1600/5473cdd1fc64b0abec27f4fc49284dcd.jpg" height="320" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" width="250" />
I kinda touched base on some of this already. You can move into CT, you can move into mammography. Those two areas have extra courses that our national association does offer in order to become better educated in those areas to perform them. That doesn’t mean you can’t get a job without the courses, but they do recommend that you do take those courses while you’re learning and being employed by that area. You can also move into angiography, which is the area that I described that visualizes the blood vessels of the body. There’s always that move into management. When those ones that are there get old and they retire, then someone has to fill their shoes. Or I retire, I already have one guy at work though who’s told me a million times he wants my job. I told him he’s going to have to wait a long time yet. <br />
There are a lot of students who do go out of X-ray directly into sales. They’re selling the radiology equipment. Some of them are computer “techie” guys or girls or women, whatever and they definitely want to sell that type of equipment. So they’re big into that. Radiation safety. We have a section in our hospital that is radiation safety. They tell us how to be safe or make sure that we are being safe. MRI and Ultrasound are a different color because you do need to take an extra course or an extra program to actually get into those fields. Ultrasound is an 18-month program outside of X-ray and MRI is a 9-month program outside of X-radiation.<br />
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There’s also Nuclear Medicine and Radiation Therapy, which are also, fall under the ARRT, which are other modalities that you can take courses, and you don’t need X-ray to get into them. They’re completely separate. But radiology itself is recognized by the US Armed Forces. So you could actually go and work in the army or with the Armed Forces as an <a href="http://justaintright.blogspot.com/2013/10/radiology-technician-education.html">radiology technician</a>. They need them out in the different war zones, so to speak. If they have injuries they do have X-ray equipment on site where they can actually image the soldiers. You could also go into quality testing industry. They do a lot of imaging of airplane engines to make sure that they are safe. I don’t know a lot about that, but I do know that they use X-ray to image the engines.<br />
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Qualities and abilities are needed for someone starting out. I kind of touched a little bit on what is expected of the person who’s coming into a <a href="http://justaintright.blogspot.com/2014/09/career-as-x-ray-technician.html">job</a>. Good communication skills, I always like to use the word empathy. That you have empathy for your patients, so you are always aware of how they’re feeling. Able to handle those stressful situations, critical thinking skills. In your present position, my position that I’m now, I know, me personally? I need patience. Because the students are coming to me from Red River College, they’ve learn everything out of the book but they are quick to find out that every patient who walks in the door is not a textbook patient. They might not be able to do exactly as the book as told them to do. So it’s my job to teach them how to think outside the box. So I need patience in my job so they learn how to work with patients. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07040322626052481345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3236267079904838289.post-57059657996129393292015-06-02T02:28:00.000-07:002015-06-02T02:28:00.132-07:00Radiology Career Skills<img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXzwU2ya_e-nfq2qKLDzc3MVoiFZYmeKHXsWt0XTxOJUnTLNWCq_CgKjKQF_RKRo5jxj4PLU59voqdkXN1i3S_9omlD3kJe4KiNpbNIT_xwau7KzzsMpntlI3W_Hz8YmDBWZ30bPo7n3T-/s1600/56361334.jpg" height="213" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" width="320" />
What are they looking for? Good communication skills. You have to be able to talk to people on a professional level. Patients, doctors, nurses, other radiology technicians, other people that are working in the healthcare system. Personable, good personality because again you’re dealing with the sick. A lot of those patients are very, very ill and we have to be able to give them that comfort when they’re there. Continuing education. Are you showing to your employer that you’re going to be continuing with your education, other courses you can take to better yourself as a technologist? They do look for that: physically fit. Do you have a strong knowledge base? There are some employers that actually quiz people that are applying to the job on how to take X-rays, when you look at the images how do you tell if it’s good or not. There are some employers who do – a lot of them actually – who do quiz you on that type of information.<br />
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Critical thinking skills: Can you think your way out of a problem? If you have a patient who’s on the table who all of a sudden is going downhill – is the word I’ll use – but if they start to take a turn for the worst, what do you do? Able to handle high stress situations: I put that in there because I work in a facility that can be that way. The Health Sciences Center is a trauma center. We see, like I said, a lot of drama that you hear a lot on the news: car accidents, you know, stabbings, those types of situations. We see a lot of it at the Health Sciences Center. Not to say you don’t see that at the other sites, but we see a lot of it at our site and they can be high stress situations. We could be involved I that situation. So are you able to be in that type of an environment?Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07040322626052481345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3236267079904838289.post-39400648397909344012015-05-16T02:23:00.000-07:002015-05-16T02:23:00.042-07:00Finding a Job<img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjjROF6Xrxtwhl85nf9qdaq8Jh30z2F6d0oG8-lbMeAU5OU62U9ppLm0etdMQzEWfyqt1N2gDtbKSM2Pknsn21PI-NJeT9ocGdpM5Oxf1BIDmNBn-zqrhColqySWRfPikcfWLjK7EfAgN_/s1600/X-rays-at-a-hospital-002.jpg" height="192" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" width="320" />
How do you apply for a job and how does it all work? Well, through the <a href="https://www.arrt.org/" target="_blank">ARRT</a> their listings are in their website. Preference is given, usually though, to internal applicants. Depending on what job is being posted, sometimes people within the site might be applying for that same job, so if there is an internal applicant typically, they will look at them first but that doesn’t mean that job necessarily will be given to them, they will definitely be looking at them first though, because of union seniority, etc. Clinic center usually post everything online or in the newspaper and again it’s just a call for an interview from the employer. And <a href="http://www.rsna.org/" target="_blank">RSNA</a> also post their jobs online, but they also have internal applicants as well, because a lot of them are unionized. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07040322626052481345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3236267079904838289.post-69088814453768872122015-05-01T02:11:00.000-07:002015-05-01T02:11:00.255-07:00Benefits<img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIn2TMLEq9eT1PGiBD132JwKC1i738HBVccAyQT3ALMl-zpqQ_H4Fv1d22WzwnhxGSwB9cB1gv-tnE2Uei8lA-u3m5C32OefecioE5Saq26TPLGb1lY8mTS9nUajlPcM78yFlL5W0pTdYf/s1600/lab%20photo.jpg" height="240" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" width="320" />
Pension plans, they are available through the hospitals if you’re working to WRHA or RSNA and clinics is depending on the employer. Salary scales: most of the members of the hospital are unionized so we all have a contract that we go by when it comes to wages. But a new graduate usually starts at around 25 dollars an hour and, depending on where you go, on advancement you could increase to close to 40. Clinics? It’s depending on where you’re working, who your employer is, but for the most part they tend to be very comparable to the hospital because they need the staff as well. They know that if they don’t pay comparable that you’re going to go somewhere else.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07040322626052481345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3236267079904838289.post-86782010309355031592015-04-16T02:06:00.000-07:002015-04-16T02:06:00.339-07:00Working Conditions and Physical Demands<img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjl7hs1xfO-6Mm7MI5PsYDlRkYNUWse6L0n2k2deTz8JDCxOnob7Fvhh7gb0Y_gtr7qPtJV-rBaOG0FBz2x6eBqxOdhBqB1WAAxmJG9Z-dAnj0AZ8MGwg_qAmLXruR_dawOZBTyrBi6_mxV/s1600/3373637475.jpg" height="227" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" width="320" />
In hospital, It’s shift work! It’s 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year. They don’t close. Clinic is a Monday to Friday job because, it’s the pushy one. Some people like the clinic because of the pace and because of the hours. Someone like myself, I like the hospital because of the pace. Not really, because of the hours, when I used to work nights, it wasn’t always the greatest thing but I like it because of the pace. Anything that is closed toe. You don’t want to be wearing any open toe shoes at the hospital because someone will drive over your foot with a wheelchair, drive over your foot with a stretcher, a patient could fall on you, whatever.<br />
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Be physically fit and use good body mechanics. The number one thing is that body mechanics are key in this job. That we’re using our legs and backs properly so that we’re not hurting ourselves. There’s a lot of patient transferring, we have to move patients from the stretcher to our X-ray table, we have to assist patients from sitting into a standing position out of a wheelchair, we have to assist them from the wheelchair to sit on the table and lie down. There is a lot of physical involvement with the job. As well, when we go to move the equipment, a lot of the equipment that we move is above our head so we have to be able to work in that extension of our arms as well.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07040322626052481345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3236267079904838289.post-13965148739051087652015-03-22T01:59:00.000-07:002015-03-22T01:59:00.112-07:00Education Sponsorship<img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5zk0Y4DslqiDz9oENErzqRjgEN8BZyscZFhU_FGUWrHnkXHgpM6o6xDDD6MsvfiLVvCs_b4jz2AR_RiRxyj2pQFl8Z6WpUIlRcHudIx02rFHYdhup7T7M2JGnaHRtTy2yhxTJ38ENnnrp/s1600/1204449325.jpg" height="214" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" width="320" />
Costs! These again are estimates. Year one and year two are the same, it’s 3724 for both years. The books and supplies are $2800 but those books apply to both years. It’s not, I need 2800 dollars’ worth of books in year one and I need another 2800 dollars’ worth of books in year two. They apply to both. So you use the same books all the way through. Other fees. Year one there is a $200 fee for uniforms because you do wear scrubs when you’re working as an X-ray Tech and as a student. And year two there’s that ARRT national exam, it does have a cost. It’s a big one, it’s $900. So you only want to write it once. You get four chances! If you don’t pass at the first time, you have four chances to write it, but you only want to write it once because it’s $900 a pop. So every time you go to write, it’s another $900. Why is it so expensive? Someone always wants to know that. Because we actually pull people from across the country into Ottawa once a year to write these exams, I’m one of those people. So, it is a big cost involved through the national association to do that. And the books purchased, again like I said, in year one will be used in both years.<br />
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As well, there are the RSNA or the Radiological Society of North America, also has an education sponsorship in return of service program that they offer to students who are willing to work in a rural site once they leave the program. This only applies to the rural sites. Through their education sponsorship in return of service program for those rural, northern NY. Accepted students will receive a reimbursement for tuition and books for the 2-year diploma program, which is approximately that $8500. Provide any additional cross-training – and I’ll talk about that in just a minute – that is required and guarantee full time employment upon completion of the program in exchange for 3-year return of service commitment in a rural or northern facility. So, this is definitely an option if it is something that you’re considering coming into X-ray. And this is looking, you know, very nice to you and you are ok with working in a rural community outside after you graduate, you can definitely visit RSNA’s website and you will be able to get all the information from there. The cross-training that’s mentioned in there, a lot of the sites are so small that they don’t always have a laboratory Technologist and an X-ray Technologist at the same time working there, just because of staffing. So what they do is they do cross-train radiology technician to do very basic lab tests and lab Technologists to do very basic X-ray exams. So that they can have one person who can stay there and do both jobs at the same time. So that is where that cross-training comes in. It’s only offered through RSNA.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07040322626052481345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3236267079904838289.post-9536175059878934582015-02-26T01:51:00.000-08:002015-02-26T01:51:00.516-08:00Becoming a Radiology TechnicianHow do you <a href="http://justaintright.blogspot.com/2013/10/reasons-to-become-radiology-technician.html">become a radiology tech</a>? Or, how did I become an X-ray tech? I’m going to go through some of those education requirements now.<br />
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<br />You need grade 12 and you need 27 credits of post-secondary <a href="http://justaintright.blogspot.com/2013/10/radiology-technician-education.html">education</a>. Whether it’s from a college or university including statistics, communications, human anatomy and physiology, introduction to physics, introduction to sociology or psychology, and structure and modeling in chemistry. Those are prerequisite courses to be taken prior to coming into the X-ray program at Red River. <br />The program itself is a 20-month diploma program at Red River College. It has an August or September start date, depending on where the long weekend falls. And it’s 8 months at Red River. So you’re going from September to April at Red River College and then starting in May you do a 12 month clinical rotation at a base site. In Winnipeg the base sites are the Health Sciences Center, Saint Boniface, Seven Oaks, Victoria General, the Grace. I think I got all of them. Brandon in rural Manitoba, as well as a lot of other rural sites. South quirk, Steinbeck Portage the Prairie, Dauphin, Boundary Trails, which is up by Warren. So it’s a lot of different areas that you can actually find a lot of different sites that you can go to for your 12-month clinical rotation.<br />
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<br />Once you’re finished and you’ve completed the program, and passed everything, and you graduated, and it’s all happening that you have to take a national certification exam through our National Association in order to practice in the USA. You can’t just graduate from the program and go on to become an X-ray Tech in a department. You have to pass this national exam. It’s a four hour exam that you write, post-graduation and once you’ve passed that then you become certified and you can work as a Technologist anywhere in US. And then in Manitoba you do automatically become registered with the MEMRT which is our provincial association and the CAMRT which is our national association.<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07040322626052481345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3236267079904838289.post-61644729553637195032015-02-02T01:44:00.000-08:002015-02-02T01:44:00.084-08:00Day in the Life of a Radiologic Technologist<img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJa38fJUnoqO-9ldFLP6tHiegWN_bTCXhK5DGj-lXCEevk8fKV8EYqgi-wYVM70Kv7ZzNuNZXzNvlBNAeAWe2jrOVm4IO5LdFeBvGOt2zYMq9AERW5RjjiRF6kTP3WShAK7uZNs9kt2oxR/s1600/1207253.jpg" height="211" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" width="320" />
Is everyday basically the same? What do you think? No! No day at the hospital or at the clinic is going to be anything the same as the day before. It all depends on the weather, it all depends on, you know, how many parties went on that weekend. Who knows? How many fights broke out at the bar that weekend? There’s a lot of different things that can actually take part in how busy we are, what types of patients we see and just how crazy it can get. So it all depends on, and it doesn’t matter where you are, you could be at a clinic you could be at a hospital. Doesn’t matter. Every day is different! You never know what’s going to walk through the door. So lots of variety.<br />
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How much of your day is spent working with other people? Well, all day! Everyday! We work with Doctors, we work with the Nurses on the wards. When we go up to the wards to actually take these images of the patients. And in the department too. We have clerical staff that answer the phones for us and as well as on the wards. We have to talk to them all the time as well. Colleagues, our own… our peers within the department as well as colleagues at other sites. We also have to be able to deal with the family of the patient or the patient’s family. A lot of times we have to communicate with them. Sometimes it’s a language barrier, sometimes we need them to help us translate what we need the patient to do, like hold their breath. Sounds very simple? But not everybody knows what we’re talking about when we say that. So we sometimes have to use the family member or we physically will actually show them. This is what we want you to do. And, of course, the patients. Those are the most important people that we deal with every day.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07040322626052481345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3236267079904838289.post-71732082140144681462015-01-10T01:31:00.000-08:002015-01-10T01:31:00.070-08:00Types of Work Environments<img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhn6ii4leWtMJMPyxGo9Kx0J_Co_wY16v-NyXUOGQlAfzSOCDB5GO3gzgZjFnSqjtrw3XzELQSrtMzVwxxGQMZQ2XmZZqI_Tz8mNEHuAHKEXKllAkmICLNFU2KwkmGh1WyuuhH7Y5d4Y9nc/s1600/204_gallery_21_502x335-1.jpg" height="212" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" width="320" />
What are the different areas that you can actually <a href="http://justaintright.blogspot.com/2013/10/radiology-technician-education.html">work as a radiology technician</a>? There’s really about two basic types of environments. There’s the hospital, at which there’s a variety, when it comes down to just the hospital setting. Rural hospitals, community hospitals within the city and some place like the Health Sciences Center, which is a trauma center, so we see a lot of critical cases coming through there. Or a clinic. So a clinic would be, you know, if you go to the Doctor’s office they give you a requisition, say go down stairs to the clinic and have a chest <a href="http://justaintright.blogspot.com/2014/10/x-ray-mammography-mri-ct-scans.html">X-ray</a> done. That would be your clinic situation. The clinic type of environment.<br />
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So at the hospital, you can see emergency patients. This is an image of a patient, of a resuscitation room at a site where there’s more than one critical patient and you can see – I don’t have a pointer on this on this. Here is an X-ray machine, it’s a portable machine that we can bring to the patient and take the images at the bedside, so they don’t have to come to us when they are that critical. We also have the in-patients. Those patients that are in-house, in the hospital, they come to us in the department, in the X-ray department or we go to them. In the hospital we also see the out-patients that come from the clinics within the hospital or off-site. And those I call the walking patients. They’re the ones that can walk in the room, pretty much do what you need them to do before it and them they’re on their way. And then we also have the special procedures, which I sort of touched base about already.<br />
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At the medical clinic, they see the out-patient. The walking patient, the majority of them come walking on their own and they don’t need a lot of assistance. Whereas the patients in the hospital need more assistance than the typical walking patient.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07040322626052481345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3236267079904838289.post-11094019967029408982014-12-18T01:18:00.000-08:002014-12-18T01:18:00.917-08:00Radiation ProtectionHere’s an example of that fancy lead shielding that we get to wear. Comes in a variety of colors, different styles, it’s very, you know, they’re trying to make them look a little bit more stylish, all the time. But they’re still leady prints, they’re heavy. But, for the most part, we’re not wearing them all day, every day. We do take them off in between procedures because you couldn’t possibly wear them all day, you would get a sore back. But they do variations of this, there are styles that have a skirt that wraps all the way around the body as well as a vest, much easier on your back because you don’t have all the weight on your shoulders.<br />
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<br />An example of the control booth. So this is the area where the technologist would actually go stand behind the glass to take the picture and the patients are always “How come you get to leave and I don’t?”, you know? It’s because you need to have the radiation to see the pictures, in order to get the images. I’m protecting myself on a daily basis by going behind that glass.<br />This is just an image of what happens after. After we’ve taken the images they get processed by computer, go directly to an archival system in a network that we have at the hospital and a server, and then the radiologist can actually pull those images up within minutes to actually view them and make a report. <br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07040322626052481345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3236267079904838289.post-61422228078009180132014-11-28T01:03:00.000-08:002014-11-28T01:03:00.713-08:00General Radiology Room <img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRBNbM7QeIy1ShOGc3kxtPenDWtXnly1VnVDylA05izQke847eLEWzpL1lU5ahd6D0Iw2bZAUHSuDJEkUE0WVVdMbTwOWoaQPEEtjruA-ihHzo7S8wbZNWJk0ZJy25qaNG6kumwBTl_U3t/s1600/0.jpg" height="240" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" width="320" />
These are just a couple of images of a general radiology room. And a couple of examples of patients being in that room with the technologist. The first image is actually a technologist positioning a patient for a chest X-Ray and the second one is an image of a technologist positioning a patient for an abdomen X-Ray. So you can see, sometimes we have them standing, sometimes the patients are lying down, sometimes we have them sitting at the end of that table to just put their hand out for us. <br />
This is a CT scanner so it’s still an X-ray machine but it’s much different. That table that the patient is lying on moves in and out. Those of you who have had a CT scan know what’s that all about. You lye down, they zoom you into this big doughnut, take the pictures, zoom you back out, so you’re all done. Takes about five minutes up to fifteen minutes depending on what kind of scan you’re having done.<br />
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This is a mammography unit. So those specialized images for the breast. Those patients who may have cancer of the breast or already do. This is the type of equipment that they would be using for that.<br />
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This is an angiographic suite or interventional suite. There’s actually two machines that are used at the same time. One that’s coming from the top of the patient, one from the side so they can take more than one set of… one series… more than one series of images at a time. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07040322626052481345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3236267079904838289.post-79160649749572713142014-11-02T00:50:00.000-07:002014-11-02T00:50:00.551-07:00Daily Routine of a Radiology Technician<img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6Q3pX-TcGZG2KnCLhmh_SfKDbo8G891ATJjJvxVTShLl6ZcTRfKtZPUCsbNSMiPlv3ky6i7otPovFoy7yVHBwCUN3XVqVOHdnRbTlJbpah4_VvTiLG9S_Dkpi6NOwhL-73DMbrF_x_qL-/s1600/57434777.jpg" height="319" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" width="320" />
So what are the daily routines and responsibilities of this occupation or the <a href="http://justaintright.blogspot.com/2013/10/radiology-technician-education.html">occupation of a radiology tech</a>?<br />
- So, We’re responsible to explain the procedure to the patients. So when they come in, depending on what it is that they’re doctors has ordered, it’s up to us to explain to them exactly what we’re going to be doing that day. Whether it’s specialized, a simple chest X-ray, a simple hand X-ray we still have to tell the patient what it is we’re going to be doing that day. <br />
- Answer questions as fully as possible which also falls into contribute to patient education. So any time a patient has a question for us, or a doctor, or a nurse, or anyone who is working in the hospital may be asking: How much radiation is too much? Is it safe for me to be this close? Because radiation can be dangerous if you’re not using it properly and that’s part of your training, when you’re learning it in school, you’re taught what is safe, what isn’t and how to keep everybody else safe. On a daily basis we’re always answering those types of questions. <br />
- Comfort patients and provide emotional support. A lot of the patients that we see have just been in a major car accident, or maybe they just found out they had cancer, or maybe their family member is the one who is really, really ill and they’re there supporting them. So it’s up to us to keep it when we are in the rooms with those patients and with those family members then we’re providing that emotional support to them, making them feel comfortable when they’re with us.<br />
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- Position patients and equipment correctly. So every body part has a special image that we can take of it. And we have to position the patient into different places sometimes it looks like, you know, extremely difficult for the patient to do those positions for us, but we try our best to explain it to them and help them in every way possible to get them into the position we need to get the right images for the Doctor. For example, a hand, there are three basic images that we do. Most of the time, most of the time it’s simple but when you break that hand it’s not that easy. It’s a little bit painful. Or your leg is broken. Or your pelvis is broken. Or your spine is broken. So sometimes we have to alter how we do things to make it comfortable.<br />
- Ensure patients, staff and visitors are protected from radiation. So, the only patient that is allowed into the room is the patient when we’re actually taking the X-Ray. Family members are not usually allowed in unless it’s a child and we need the parent to stay with the child in the room. In those cases… Or we sometimes have to stay with the patients in the room depending on the procedure that we’re doing. Has X-ray Techs we do get exposed. However we do take precautions. We’re in lead shielding, we wear those heavy lead vests you see people walking around in, sometimes. Yes they are heavy but there’s different variations of them to make it more comfortable for us, on a daily basis, to wear them. As well, all the walls in the Department are lined with lead. So those people sitting out on the waiting room are not at risk. The Technologist that is going to take the picture that goes to stand behind the wall is not at risk.<br />
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- Monitor patients during the procedure. Patient status can change. If it’s a critical patient we have to monitor and keep an eye on them. So I’ve has patients faint on me in the room. They walk into the room, they stand up to go to take that X-Ray, I walk away for two seconds all of the sudden the patient is doing this. I have to keep my eye on them at all times. In that case it’s my job to run into the room bring them down to the floor in a safe manner and call a code so that I can get help. This is just an example. Doesn’t happen every day. Don’t worry! It’s just an example to know that you always have to keep your eyes on your patient.<br />
- Assist the radiologist for angiographic and interventional procedures. So that one image that I showed you earlier that had the vessels, the blood vessels those are actually performed by a radiologist who is a specialized physician in doing these types of procedures as well as reading the X-Rays that we take. We are there to assist them. We assist them with prepping the tray, it’s a sterile procedure, it’s almost like an OR. We prep the tray, we take the images but they’re the ones actually doing the procedure with the patient.<br />
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- And, of course we operate the equipment. Different styles of equipment depending on the type of procedure you’re doing. If it’s an interventional suite, like I just explained, it’s much different equipment than the one you would use in the room that we take a simple hand X-Ray. So you have to learn all the different types of equipment, or CT scanner, different types of equipment.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07040322626052481345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3236267079904838289.post-17515836944808753882014-10-19T00:38:00.000-07:002014-10-19T00:38:00.028-07:00How I get into Radiology?<img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgrF9bVDaUCMChL1fA3kl_2yptfNne-NCSNyu5m6mbX0BjyAwnO20fDkWOaVwt96f3cBuR1CoZsdYHn6uReMDB8JB3n7xk1uQNRdRdRp1QfiCE7XGKnODldU4fHvNJHlwc-RgYV-TQCX21/s1600/04C54D03CCD24D54A4A1BF464B983BCC.jpg" height="240" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" width="320" />
Before I get into about the career and what we do on a daily basis, I’m going to give you just a little bit of background of how I got to where I am today. Because I know that’s from where all of you are starting from. Or most of you. So, way back in time, in 1989 I graduated from High School from Windsor Park Collegiate. 1989 to 1991 I went to the university of Manitoba for 2 years. Kind of us feeling everything out, wasn’t sure what I wanted to do so I decided, after 2 years, University just wasn’t for me. It’s not that’s not for everybody. For everybody. Just not for me. From 1991 to 93, I was a work in progress trying to figure out what I wanted to do with my life. And, believe it or not, I actually went to a similar type of career symposium. And discovered that this is where I wanted to be, was an X-ray Technologist. I went to Red River College for two years from 93 to 95. From 95 to 2000 I worked at various clinics in the city, rural hospitals doing some casual work. I had my first child during that time. And then, from 2000 until now I’ve been at the Health Sciences Center here in Winnipeg for 13 years. And now at the beginning of that I was a general duty X-ray Technologist working in the General Imaging Department which is where we do hands, wrists, chest X-rays, etc. And I did that for 8 years before I became the Clinical Education Coordinator or, easier way, Clinical Instructor for the Department. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07040322626052481345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3236267079904838289.post-23704606171660679122014-10-01T00:24:00.000-07:002014-10-01T00:24:00.048-07:00X-ray, mammography, MRI, CT scansA radiology technician can also be a mammographer, do mammograms. Which is specialized imaging of the breast. So if anyone here has a mother or sister, aunt, grandmother who has a history of breast cancer definitely they have had a mammogram done. And some of them may have had them done without having cancer, just to check, to see, for baseline examinations. And that would have been done as well by an X-ray tech.<br />
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An X-ray technologist also does CT scanning. So if you’ve been involved in a car accident it’s a very common… type of event that we would be doing CT scanning for. So that we can see what has been damaged internally. We also take specialized imaging of the vessels in the body. The blood vessels, the arteries, vanes, heart and an R-Ray technologist would also be involved in those types of studies. <br />
Some radiologic technologists go on to become MRI Technologists and they could be taking MRI. That’s an MRI of the brain. Or, they can go on to Ultrasound. They could be doing images of the unborn child of the expected parents.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07040322626052481345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3236267079904838289.post-3434500824922274962014-09-18T00:15:00.000-07:002014-09-18T00:15:02.054-07:00Career as a X-ray technician I am here today to talk to you about the career as an X-ray Technologist. I’ll be giving you some background on what it is to be an X-ray Tech, what you need to do to become one and the different areas of where you could be working one day if you do take the program. X-ray Technologist is a person who takes images of the inside of your body. Whether it’s the bones, your organs, blood vessels… All different types of procedures that we can do to visualize what we can’t see with the naked eye. <br />
<img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgen1wITktGRfZOp6_zQ-_SPsUqA3BGuZDWr5tbhZMZz5BU8zx74ySFP-_yyBg5rLBl0Eu2GU8SZTS-BbupoLmoXjfp55AEKRbutn4XHa9NZRgNmxy2CWx8CB0UrWktPbyACOlweox5lPxk/s1600/radiographer.png" height="253" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" width="320" />This is an image of a wrist! Some of you who have had X-ray may have done this. And broken your wrist snowboarding, skateboarding, very common injuries. Very common injury for that type of sports or activities. An X-ray Technologist would’ve been the person who took the images for your Doctor so that he could see how badly it’s broken, where it’s broken to put on the cast. To fix it! <br />
This is an image of a fluoroscopic study which is an image of the organs on the inside. So this is a stomach. And the first part of your small bowel. X-ray Technologist would also be involved in a study. For example: if you go to the Doctor, you have a sore stomach, you don’t know why. They may be sending you to us to drink… As anybody had that special drink? Where they have this kind a choky liquid? What it does is it actually allows us to visualize your stomach, large bowel, small bowel on X-ray to see if there’s something going on that the Doctor needs to fix. To make you feel better.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07040322626052481345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3236267079904838289.post-14879687383304632212013-10-08T19:37:00.000-07:002013-10-08T19:37:00.140-07:00A Day in the Life of a Radiology Technician After <i>going through the rigorous and equally demanding radiology program, and surviving the clinical sessions and licensing as well</i>, stepping into the spotlit alone without the watching eyes of teachers can be scary at first although very exciting indeed. While thinking that one of the marvels of modern-day medicine, is <b>the ability to see inside the human body without any surgery or other invasive procedures</b>, it becomes very exciting indeed to be part of the action in as many instances or such occasions as is possible. Being an expert who operates this state-of-the-art equipment, <b>makes me proud of myself as I position patients to get the most accurate image I can get for their medical conditions</b>.
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The day normally starts with <b>instructions from physicians or other specialists like cardiologists</b>, to image certain parts of a patient's body. While patients might be anxious about the procedure and ask several genuine and valid questions, it is the <b>responsibility of the radiology technician to assure them that they are under great care and don't have to worry about the procedure without exceeding their boundaries</b>. It is during these times that I <i>extensively use my social skills to get the work done in time without deviating from the real issue at hand, as many patients tend to ask questions that only their physicians or other specialists can answer with great precision</i>.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07040322626052481345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3236267079904838289.post-3537010891392537902013-10-03T19:18:00.001-07:002013-10-03T19:18:24.242-07:00About Radiology Technician<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Most people will admit that having just graduated from high school and with no clear path in life to to follow, there is usually some level of distress and frustration that can overwhelm any individual very easily. This however, does not have to be the case as pursuing a career as a radiology technician can go a long way to secure for anyone, the kind of successful future that they desire to have. <b>A radiology technician is trained to take images of different parts of the human body with the use of state-of-the-art equipment in a very professional environment</b>. It is true that pursuing a career in radiology today, not only ensures one of a gainful and secure job, but also unlocks the potential for one to attract to themselves a phenomenal amount of money and success, that can revolutionize their lives.<br />
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