Lecture #1 : From Classroom to Clinic

The key individual in the health care setting is the ____________ who means, we must think of the patient as our guest.

Patient

The ___________ is the recipient of the many services provided in medical facilities.

Patient

NMT's Responsibilities

- Interact with the patient
- Establish and maintain an atmosphere of caring and empathy for the patient
- Treat the patient as guest in a home

Interactions with the patient

- Instruct the patient during pre, during, and post procedure
- Recognize emergency patient conditions
- Safety protocols in the reduction of radiation

The field of radiology is continually changing in the wake of technology and has recently accelerated with the space age.

Responsibilities in Health Care

Learn the basic principles of the production of x-radiation and how to make these principles work is imperative for the student of nuclear medicine.

Responsibilities in Health Care

During classroom preparation, the student may practice in the hot lab using the different equipment and machine they need to know.

From Classroom to Clinical Setting

After classroom preparation, clinical experience offers the opportunity for the student to determine whether all things learned about the NMT.

From Classroom to Clinical Setting

What is the method of standardizing the evaluation of a student's performance in clinical setting.

Clinical Competency Evaluation

What are the three specific aspects of learning that are provided in Clinical Competency Evaluation?

- Cognitive Learning
- Affective Learning
- Psychomotor Learning

Refers to classroom lectures and demonstration of theories, as well as to the facts and background information necessary to understand a specific body of knowledge.

Cognitive Learning

Involves attitudes, values, and feeling.

Affective Learning

The actual hands-on phase.

Psychomotor Learning

The application of previously learned material. Didactic Information is put to actual use in the clinical situation.

Psychomotor Learning

What is the integration of the cognitive, affective, and psychomotor aspects of radiologic technology education?

Clinical Participation

Assists the NMT and observes each detail of the radiographic procedure.

Passive Participation

Performs various assigned tasks associated with procedures after becoming familiar with them.

Student Participation

Progresses into the independent clinical performance phase.

Student Participation

Employ radiation safety measures.

Objective in Clinical Participation

Perform diagnostic and therapeutic procedures in nuclear medicine.

Objective in Clinical Participation

Manage and operate nuclear medicine instruments.

Objective in Clinical Participation

Understand and safely use radiopharmaceuticals.

Objective in Clinical Participation

Deliver patient-centered care.

Objective in Clinical Participation

Demonstrate professionalism and inter-professional communication skills.

Objective in Clinical Participation

Demonstrate leadership and management skills in system-based health care practice.

Objective in Clinical Participation

This evaluation is designed to be a...

Positive Experience

As the student makes the transition from a classroom environment to one that combines both classroom and clinical experience...

the learning process becomes integrated and more complex.

It is imperative that each student consider his or her education in nuclear medicine technology as a continuing process.

Continuing Education

The courses are an indication of the basic responsibilities of every nuclear medicine technologist which must be learned and understood before...

you can correctly and safely operate the complicated equipment.

You should not be surprised to learn that nuclear medicine technology education must be an ongoing process.

Continuing Education