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Capability
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Standard
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Examples of Technical Standard Found in the Program and Related to Industry
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Cognitive Ability/Critical Thinking Skills
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Demonstrate ability in reading and comprehension and use them together to demonstrate critical thinking skills and clinical reasoning.
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Read and document data.
Operate various healthcare equipment, including blood pressure monitoring, digital and standard scales, and mechanical lifts.
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| Demonstrate a professional manner and insight in the communication process. |
Identify and immediately report changes in patient health status condition that endanger patients and evaluate patient complaints. |
| Be able to exercise critical thinking skills, organize responsibilities, make appropriate decisions, and accurate mathematical calculations. |
Incorporate knowledge from lecture, laboratory and clinical experience to prioritize safe and efficient care for each patient.
Perform measurement and calculations. |
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Physical
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Tactile Skills: Sense of touch sufficient to perform physical assessment and functions.
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Seize, hold, grasp, and turn with hands.
Perform palpation, tactile assessment, and manipulation of the body as required to produce diagnostic images.
Manipulate locks on equipment.
Don gloves.
Fill syringes.
Align patient, image receptors, and x-ray tube.
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Mobility/Motor Skills: Possess skills sufficient to move from room to room and maneuver in small spaces.
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Be able to lift and carry or push up to 50 pounds.
Demonstrate adequate coordination.
Be able to endure long periods of standing, sitting, walking, bending, lifting, reaching, stooping, squatting, and moving in complex health environments.
Position and transfer patients safely from wheelchair or stretcher to x-ray table and back.
Push mobile x-ray machine to various locations, including in patient rooms.
Perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).
Reach overhead to manipulate equipment hanging from the ceiling. |
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Auditory Skills: Hearing ability (with corrective devices as needed) to monitor and respond to the patient and the health care team.
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Hear instructions.
Perform percussion and auscultation in a physical examination.
Hear call for help.
Hear low noise level bells and/or buzzers.
Function when health care team is required to wear surgical masks.
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Visual Skills: Visual ability (with corrective devices as needed) to monitor and assess patient care needs, performance of patient care procedures, and maintenance and compliance with environmental safety.
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Observe demonstrations and participate in physical examination sessions, clinical skills workshops, and observe the difference between normal versus pathological states.
Read monitor data.
Read and document diagnostic records.
Possess visual acuity and intensity discrimination in order to evaluate radiographs or scans for technical quality.
Possess peripheral vision.
Possess depth perception.
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Behavioral Skills
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Possess the emotional stability to function effectively under stress and to adapt to an environment that may change rapidly, without warning, and or/in unpredictable ways.
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Accept responsibility for learning, exercising good judgment, and promptly completing all responsibilities attendant to the diagnosis and care of patients.
Contribute to collaborative, constructive learning environments; accept constructive feedback from others; take personal responsibility for making appropriate positive changes.
Demonstrate flexibility, compassion, integrity, and motivation.
Present a professional appearance.
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Interpersonal Skills
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Ability to interact with individuals, families, and groups from a variety of social, emotional, cultural, and intellectual backgrounds.
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Demonstrate respect for the patient, his or her privacy, and for family members.
Develop and maintain effective, mature and sensitive professional relationships with other members of the heath care team.
Establish rapport with patients, families and colleagues.
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Communication Skills
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Ability to communicate effectively in the classroom, laboratory, and all clinical settings with patients, families and members of the health care team. Students must be able to speak and converse with all persons across the lifespan.
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Read, comprehend, and write legibly in the English language.
Demonstrate evidence of effective written and verbal communication skills.
Demonstrate technological literacy.
Be able to collect and document data.
Provide clear and audible directions to patients face-to-face and from the radiography control area, away from the patient.
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Occupational Exposure
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Health care is often delivered in high stress areas, requiring management of multiple roles and duties simultaneously. The imaging student must possess the ability to protect self and others by implementing appropriate precautions due to possible exposure to radiation, communicable disease and/or body fluids, toxic substances, or other hazards.
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Exposure to blood and body fluids and communicable and infectious diseases, requiring the wearing of personal protective equipment, i.e., masks, goggles, and gloves.
Working with sharps and chemicals.
Exposure to radiation, requiring lead apron weighing up to 10 pounds and monitoring devices for dose to exposed body parts.
Exposure to latex and nitrile products if allergic.
Exposure to assault and battery
Environmental hazards – slippery floors, various levels of lighting, various room temperatures, etc.
Legal / ethical dilemmas
Liability issues
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