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Job Description
Maintain and use equipment and supplies necessary to demonstrate portions of the human body on x-ray film or fluoroscopic screen for diagnostic purposes.
Job Details
- The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 29-2099.06
☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Radiologic Technicians”.
Also Known As…
- Radiologic Technicians
- X-Ray Technician (X-Ray Tech)
- Registered Radiographer
- Radiology Technician (Radiology Tech)
- Radiologic Technician (RT)
- Limited Radiology Technician
- Chief Technician, X-Ray (Chief Tech, X-Ray)
- X Ray Operator
- Radiology Assistant
- Radiology Aide
- Radiological Technician
- Radiography Technician
- Medical Imaging Technician
- Mammography Technician
- Electroneurodiagnostic Technician (ENDT)
- EKG Tech (Electrocardiographic Technician)
- EEG Technician (Electroencephalographic Technician)
- Computed Tomography Technician (CT Technician)
- Computed Tomography Scanner Operator
- Cat Scanner Operator
Tasks for “Chief Technician, X-Ray (Chief Tech, X-Ray)”
- Provide students or other technicians with suggestions of additional views, alternate positioning, or improved techniques to ensure the images produced are of the highest quality.
- Collect and maintain records of patients examined, examinations performed, patient medical histories, views taken, or technical factors used.
- Operate digital picture archiving communications systems.
- Make exposures necessary for the requested procedures, rejecting and repeating work that does not meet established standards.
- Position x-ray equipment and adjust controls to set exposure factors, such as time and distance.
- Assist with on-the-job training of new employees or students or provide input to supervisors regarding training performance.
- Prepare and set up x-ray room for patient.
- Coordinate work of other technicians or technologists when procedures require more than one person.
- Maintain a current file of examination protocols.
- Provide assistance to physicians or other technologists in the performance of more complex procedures.
- Complete quality control activities, monitor equipment operation, and report malfunctioning equipment to supervisor.
- Assure that sterile or non-sterile supplies such as contrast materials, catheters, films, chemicals, or other required equipment, are present and in working order or requisition materials.
- Operate mobile x-ray equipment in operating room, emergency room, or at patient's bedside.
- Perform general administrative tasks, such as answering phones, scheduling patient appointments, or pulling and filing films.
- Provide assistance in radiopharmaceutical administration, monitoring patients' vital signs and notifying the radiologist of any relevant changes.
- Determine patients' x-ray needs by reading requests or instructions from physicians.
- Prepare contrast material, radiopharmaceuticals, or anesthetic or antispasmodic drugs under the direction of a radiologist.
- Use beam-restrictive devices and patient-shielding techniques to minimize radiation exposure to patient and staff.
- Transport patients to or from exam rooms.
- Position patient on examining table and set up and adjust equipment to obtain optimum view of specific body area as requested by physician.
- Explain procedures to patients to reduce anxieties and obtain cooperation.
- Process exposed radiographs using film processors or computer generated methods.
- Perform procedures, such as linear tomography, mammography, sonograms, joint and cyst aspirations, routine contrast studies, routine fluoroscopy, or examinations of the head, trunk, or extremities under supervision of physician.
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- Tabletop film processors
- Compression bands
- Personal computers
- Enema equipment
- Picture archiving and communication systems PACS
- High-speed multislice computed tomography CT scanners
- Oxygen equipment
- Image capturing and transmission systems
- Straps
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- Notebook computers
- X ray imaging charge-coupled device CCD cameras
- X ray bone densitometers
- Portable film processors
- Portable x ray machines
- Collimators
- X ray film processors
- Automatic x ray film processors
- Radiation measurement badges
- Cushions
- Digital transmission densitometers
- Computed tomography CT scanners
- X ray filters
- Desktop computers
- Sandbags
- Image storage systems
- Lead shields/shielding equipment
- Diaphragms
- X ray image intensifier television systems
- Grids
- Medical magnetic resonance imaging MRI equipment
- Portable densitometers
- Fluoroscopes
- Film cassettes
- Self-contained film processors
- Cylinders
- Image intensifiers
- X ray calipers
- Tablet computers
- Stationary x ray equipment
- Cones
- Mobile image amplifier C-arms
- Scan converters
- Magnetic tape recorders
- X ray beam restriction devices
- Internet or intranet image distribution software
- Microsoft Excel
- Information systems integration software
- GE Healthcare Centricity EMR
- Diagnostic image review software
- Microsoft Office
- GE Healthcare ViewPoint Solutions
- Practice management software PMS
- Electronic medical record EMR software
- MEDITECH software
- Structured data entry software
- Film processor tracking and management software
- Virtual reality computed tomography CT imaging software
- Digital Imaging Communications in Medicine DICOM software/modality management software
- Information management subsystem software