Saturday, March 19, 2016

A Day in the Life of a Radiologic Technologist


What it's a Technologist in Medical Imaging
A technologist in Diagnostic Imaging takes  
radiographies to allow the doctor to make the diagnostic of a pathology or diseases. In this blog post, I am going to show you a typical day of a technologist in medical imaging.

The Place
Most of the technologists work in the hospitable environment. A technologist can work on the private, on the public, in doctor's office or in the laboratory.

The Context
An important thing to know about the job technologist in medical imaging it is that they spend all the day up. They walk to bring patients in their room or to go see the radiologist. Also, he often has to lift some patient to bring them on the radiology's table or just to replace them in their stretchers. The medical technician has several manners to protect  themselves, whether it is to protect of the X-ray or some contagious diseases which the patients can have.

The Function
Every day, the technologist receives requests for every patient where it is indicated what he has to X-ray and other information concerning the patient. Then, the technologist goes see the patient and makes him the necessary preparation for the examination that the doctor asked him to do. Afterward, he uses the appropriates machines to take the radiographies. Furthermore, the technologist makes sure that the images are beautiful and that we see all which was asked and send them to the doctor so he can make the diagnostic. In a day, the medical technician has to redo the same thing for all the patients on the schedule and when he has no more patient he has to do the cleaning in these papers and cleans the radiography's room. It's important to have exact information concerning which body part we have scan for the diagnosis.

The Abilities to Be a Good Technologist
The technologist must understand how the machines work to be able to take the images properly. The health is paramount to this job because the technologist works all day up and work really hard.

The Schedule
Most technologists work 8 hours per day, but sometimes they have to stay longer because there may be an accident or another technologist can arrive late so he has to work more hours. When you are a technologist you can work during the day, the evening or during the night. Furthermore, medical technician can work during the week-end. 

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