See schedule provided by your instructor. Times vary depending on clinical site and location. These are the basic times set for those rotations. Clinical schedules will reflect the accurate clinical times.
AM Rotation
Tuesday and Thursday
7:00 – 3:30
Mid-shift Rotation
Tuesday and Thursday
11 a.m. – 7:30 p.m.
PM rotation
Tuesday and Thursday
1:30 – 10:00
Students will continue to participate in programmed clinical experiences within the radiology departments of area hospitals dealing with difficult exams, surgery and special procedures. Students will be exposed to the diagnostic tools of computer tomography, nuclear medicine, radiation therapy, ultrasound and MRI.
XRAY 1346 and XRAY 2103 - Must be completed prior to taking this course. XRAY 2125 - Must be taken at the same time as this course.
General Education Outcomes are the knowledge, skills, abilities, attitudes, and behaviors that students are expected to develop as a result of their overall experiences with any aspect of the college, including courses, programs, and student services, both inside and outside of the classroom. The General Education Outcomes specifically learned in this course are:
- Communication
- Critical Thinking
- Responsibility
Students will continue to participate in programmed clinical experiences within the radiology departments of clinical education centers dealing with difficult exams, surgery, and special procedures.
Faculty Contact Information
Student Support Hours in M126: Monday & Wednesday: 8:00a.m.-9:00a.m.
Student Support Hours at Various Clinical Sites: Friday: 12:00p.m.-1:00p.m.
By appt: Tuesday & Thursday: 8:00a.m.-9:00 a.m. and 11:30a.m.-1:30 p.m.
Faculty student support hours are for YOU. Your instructor’s sole purpose during student support hours is to be available to you to help you with questions, course related problems, or just to chat. Taking advantage of this one-on-one time with your instructors is highly recommended, and it is a great way to help ensure your academic success. Outside of the office hours, your instructor will also be available to you for individual conferencing by appointment either in a virtual environment, via e-mail, or by phone. You can email your instructor to set up an appointment.
Mrs. Rebecca Sherry M.Ed., MOT, DAE, R.T. (R)(ARRT) *main clinical faculty member
Program Director / Professor
M126
815-802-8830
Mrs. Sarah Westfall B.S., R.T. (R)(ARRT)
Assistant Professor/Clinical Coordinator
815-802-8832
Course Information
At the end of this course, students will be able to:
- Execute medical imaging procedures under the appropriate level of supervision.
- Respond appropriately to medical emergencies.
- Adapt procedures to meet age-specific, disease-specific and cultural needs of patients.
- Assess the patient and record an accurate clinical history.
- Demonstrate basic life support procedures.
- Use appropriate charting methods.
- Apply standard and transmission-based precautions.
- Apply the appropriate medical asepsis and sterile technique.
- Demonstrate competency in the principles of radiation protection standards.
- Apply the principles of total quality management.
- Report equipment malfunctions.
- Adhere to team practice concepts that focus on organizational theories, roles of team members and conflict resolution.
- Examine procedure orders for accuracy and make corrective actions when applicable.
- Demonstrate safe, ethical and legal practices.
- Integrate the radiographer’s practice standards into clinical practice setting.
- Maintain patient confidentiality standards and meet HIPAA requirements.
- Demonstrate the principles of transferring, positioning and immobilizing patients.
- Comply with departmental and institutional response to emergencies, disasters and accidents.
- Differentiate between emergency and non-emergency procedures.
- Adhere to national, institutional and departmental standards, policies and procedures regarding care of patients, providing radiologic procedures and reducing medical errors.
- Select technical factors to produce quality diagnostic images with the lowest radiation exposure possible.
- Critique images for appropriate anatomy, image quality and patient identification.
- Adapt to changes and varying clinical situations.
- Determine corrective measures to improve inadequate images.
- Provide patient-centered, clinically effective care for all patients regardless of age, gender, disability, special needs, ethnicity or culture.
- Integrate the use of appropriate and effective written, oral and nonverbal communication with patients, the public and members of the health care team in the clinical setting.
- Integrate appropriate personal and professional values into clinical practice.
- Use patient and family education strategies appropriate to the comprehension level of the patient/family.
- Provide desired psychosocial support to the patient and family.
- Demonstrate competent assessment skills through effective management of the patient’s physical and mental status.
The Students will have until the end of the course, to complete:
- eleven (11) Clinical Competency Evaluations from Task List A
- five (5) Clinical Competency Evaluations from Unit I of Task List B
- five (5) Clinical Competency Evaluations from Unit II of Task List B
None
All students are expected to proficiently perform all radiographic examinations that they previously demonstrated competency from current and previous semesters. If a student is not able to complete this requirement, they will not be in compliance with ARRT clinical requirements for registry eligibility. Each clinical semester is designed to help the students progress appropriately within the program. If the student is unable to demonstrate proficiency a remediation plan will be developed by KCC faculty. The student must meet all requirements in the remediation plan or they will fail the clinical course. Students may refer to the remediation plan in the radiography program student handbook. If the student does not prove proficient by the clinical preceptor or KCC faculty the student will fail the clinical course. Proficiency is detailed and outlines in the Radiography Program Student Handbook
ALL competency requirements set for by the American Registry of Radiologic Technologists MUST be successfully completed by the end of the semester. Any student that does not meet this requirement will be deemed ineligible for graduation and unable to sit for the ARRT certification examination. The student will receive an incomplete for the course until all requirements have been fulfilled.
STANDARD GRADE BREAKDOWN:
100 - 91 = A
90 - 83 = B
82 - 75 = C
Anything below 75% is failure of the course
STAFF EVALUATIONS (20% of grade):
Clinical staff will grade the student’s performance in the clinical setting daily. Students will send an email, through Trajecsys, to the staff member at the end of their assigned shift. Please use proper email etiquette. The email should contain the date in which you want the staff evaluation completed as well as your name and “KCC” after your name to identify what school you are from. It helps them if you add a few exams you recall doing with the technologist. It is recommended to “send a copy” to yourself! This is a good record to keep if you need to send reminder emails.
It is the responsibility of the student to send the technologist an email, through Trajecsys, as a reminder of the needed staff eval and for the requested date. One staff evaluation will be needed per date of clinical. A conversation might be needed with the technologist to remind them of the needed staff evaluations.
The Staff Evaluations must be completed within 2 weeks of the rotation or a zero will automatically be recorded. It will be the responsibility of the student to remind the staff radiographer of the needed evaluation. If the technologist is on leave or vacation, the student needs to communicate with the clinical preceptor to have them complete the evaluation in the technologist’s absence.
STAFF EVALUATION TOOL STANDARD GRADE BREAKDOWN
100 - 91 = A
90 - 83 = B
82 - 75 = C
74 - 67 = D
66 and below = F
CLINICAL INSTRUCTOR EVALUATION (TECHNICAL AND PROFESSIONAL)
Clinical Instructors at all Clinical Education Centers* will do an evaluation of each student at the end of the semester.
This evaluation grades the students overall clinical performance and professionalism during the course of the
semester. The average from these evaluations will be calculated into the students’ final grade.
* OAK will not be completing a clinical instructor evaluation on the students
Clinical Preceptor and Faculty Evaluation Tool – Grading Scale (20% of clinical grade)
EVALUATION TOOL-STANDARD BREAKDOWN
100 - 91 = A
90 - 83 = B
82 - 75 = C
74 - 67 = D
66 and below = F
Competency/ Practices:
**The student must notify the Staff Radiographer PRIOR to the exam if the exam is to be graded, or an evaluation is not to be completed. Upon the successful completion of the competency, the student has reached "The Basic Competency Level" on the particular area graded. The student must maintain proficiency of the examinations they have completed competencies on. ALL repeated radiographs MUST be done with direct supervision of a technologist.
If a student is to fail a competency, the student will only get one additional opportunity to pass that competency. If the second attempt is also not passed, the student will have a recorded failure of the course. Students are expected to have 35 mandatory ARRT exams and 15 electives (10 total simulations accepted) completed to be successful. If the ARRT required number of exams is not met by the “last day to write up exams” date, the student will have a recorded failing grade for XRAY 1356. Clinical competency and proficiency are standards set by The American Registry of Radiologic Technologists. If unable to prove competency or proficiency on the exams learned in all previous XRAY courses, the student will receive a failing grade and will be unable to continue in the radiography program.
Competency Grades (30% of clinical grade)
100 - 91 = A
90 - 83 = B
81 - 75 = C
Anything below 75% is a zero and must require re-competency
Below 75% must be repeated with a minimum grade of 85; if not repeated, or repeated
with a grade below 85%, the competency will not be counted as a completed competency. If repeated and the minimum grade is met the student will receive a recorded grade equivalent to a 75%.
*A student cannot re-use a competency that has already been completed for a grade in a previous semester
Students will be required to meet with the professor, at midterm, if they do not have at least 75% of the required exams completed and approved. This meeting must be initiated by the student. During this meeting, students will provide the professor with a plan on what they will do to obtain more examinations at clinical, in order to pass XRAY 1356.
Health Careers
Dean, Brad Wood; 815-802-8815; M107; bwood@kcc.edu; Division Office – W102; 815-802-8800
Attendance Requirements (10% of your grade)–
Regular attendance at all scheduled clinical sessions is expected. It is the student's responsibility to notify the professor if and why absence is unavoidable. For each absence, the student will receive a reduction in grade for the clinical session missed.
For a missed clinical, the student must call or email the appropriate KCC professor and call the clinical site by the scheduled start time (e.g. 7:00 a.m. for a day-time clinical, 11 a.m. for mid-shift, and by 1:30 p.m. for a p.m. clinical) and have a legitimate reasoning. If the KCC professor is not in at the time of the call, the student is to leave a message (reason, date and time of the call) on the voice mail. When calling the clinical site, leave a message with Radiography department staff. It is the responsibility of the student to know whom they left the message with. Non-emergency physician and dental appointments will be scheduled on off-duty time. If a student is aware that he/she needs to be absent on a particular day, an advance request may be made in writing to the KCC professor.
Students must attend 90% of the scheduled hours for each semester. If the student has not attended at least 90% of the scheduled hours, they will not receive a passing grade of “C” of better for the course.
Each student is allotted one (1) personal day per semester that will not affect their final clinical grade. In order for a personal day to be used the student must call or email the appropriate KCC professor and call the clinical site by their scheduled clinical time (e.g. 7:00 a.m. for a day-time clinical, 11 a.m. for mid-shift, and by 1:30 p.m. for a p.m. clinical.) The student will be required to make up the missed day in no less than two (2) hour increments. All time MUST be made up prior to the last scheduled day of clinical for that semester. All make up time MUST be approved by the faculty member and clinical instructor prior to the make-up time. The time MUST be made up at the clinical site that the absence occurred. The student MUST have staff evaluations fr the make up time as well. If the time is not made up, the absence with count against their final grade according to the attendance policy.
All make up time must be scheduled with program faculty and approved by the clinical preceptor prior to completing the time.
For each additional absence (other than the one allowed personal day), the student will receive a reduction in their attendance grade for each clinical session missed. An absence will result in a zero for the student's staff evaluation for the unattended rotation. The students in the Radiography Program will not have the option of making up any additional unattended days in order to expunge the absence.
If a student is absent during a visiting clinical site rotation all missed days must be made up (at that site) in order to gain the most from the visiting experience. With the exception of the use of a personal day, program attendance policy will still be in effect.
*For every 2 missed punches, it will result in an absence. For every 2 out of range punches, it will result in an absence. For every 2 no location registered, it will result in an absence. Make sure your locations are on and you are in range for clocking in and out.*
Hospital phone numbers:
SMH: (815) 937-2465 (direct #)
RMC: (815) 935-7525 (direct #)
RMC BC (815) 802-7560 (main office #)
RMC-ortho (815) 802-7090 (main clinic #)
IMH: (815) 432-5201 (main hospital #)
SCH: (815) 300-1100 (main hospital #)
GAH: (217) 784-4251 (main hospital #)
OSF: (309) 842-4933 (direct #)
MH: (815) 942-2932 ext. 1140
MH Ortho: (815) 942-4875 (main office #)
SJMC: (815) 741-7222 (direct #)
B-OAK (815) 928–8050 (main office #)
F-OAK (815) 469-3452 (main office #)
The instructor has the right to record the grade of F for the course or reduce a student’s grade if a student has excessive absences as defined in the course syllabus. (The Code of Campus Affairs and Regulations) Section 4.0 * Part 4.2 * Attendance and Campus Behavior
Excessive absences for XRAY 1356 are defined as more than FOUR missed clinical sessions (excluding the one personal day allowed when requirements are fulfilled). Once the student misses the FIFTH clinical day a grade of “F” will be recorded for the semester and the student will be removed from the Radiography Program.
*Leaving the clinical site 1 hour or more early or arriving an hour or more late will be counted as an absence.
For extended illnesses, continuation in the Radiography program will be determined by the Program Director and Clinical Coordinator according to program policy set forth under the ATTENDANCE SECTION in the Kankakee Community College Radiography Student Handbook.
For a complete description of the ATTENDANCE procedure please refer to the ATTENDANCE SECTION in the Kankakee Community College Radiography Student Handbook.
TARDINESS
Tardiness is considered to be a late arrival or an early departure of 10 minutes or more. Two (2) tardies constitute one absence. Habitual tardiness will not be tolerated by the radiography program faculty, as it demonstrates a poor work ethic and makes an individual unemployable. Any student that violates the rules will be subject to enforcement of the grading policy set forth and may possibly be at risk for failure of clinical.
*Leaving the clinical site 1 hour or more early or arriving an hour or more late will be counted as an absence.
* See the Radiography Program Student Handbook for expectations while at clinical.
College Policies, Resources and Supports
For information related to the Student Code of Conduct Policy, Withdrawal Policy, Email Policy, and Non- Attendance/Non-Participation Policy, please review the college’s Code of Campus Affairs and Regulations webpage, which can be found at catalog.kcc.edu under the Academic Regulations & Conduct Guide.
KCC offers various academic and personal resources for all students. Many services are offered virtually, as well as in person. Please visit Student Resources - Kankakee Community College to access student resources services such as:
- Clubs and organizations
- Counseling and referral services
- Office of disability services
- Student complaint policy
- Transfer services
- Tutoring services, etc.
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