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Occupation Description

Take X-rays and CAT scans or administer nonradioactive materials into patient's blood stream for diagnostic purposes. Include technologists who specialize in other modalities, such as computed tomography and magnetic resonance. Include workers whose primary duties are to demonstrate portions of the human body on X-ray film or fluoroscopic screen.

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Location	Pay Period	2008
		10%	25%	Median	75%	90%
United States	Hourly	$16.87	$20.54	$25.10	$30.29	$36.04
	Yearly	$35,100	$42,700	$52,200	$63,000	$75,000
Pennsylvania	Hourly	$15.04	$18.65	$22.99	$28.04	$32.43
	Yearly	$31,300	$38,800	$47,800	$58,300	$67,500

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• Low is the wage at which 10% of workers earn less and 90% earn more.

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• Middle is the wage at which 50% of workers earn less and 50% earn more.
• Low is the wage at which 10% of workers earn less and 90% earn more.

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National Data Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment Statistics Survey
State Data Source: Pennsylvania Workforce Statistics

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National Data Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Office of Occupational Statistics and Employment Projections
State Data Source: Pennsylvania Center for Workforce Information & Analysis

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Radiologic Technologists and Technicians are grouped into the following occupations for which the most important knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs) are listed.

• Radiologic Technicians
• Radiologic Technologists

Knowledge:

• Customer and Personal Service - Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
• Physics - Knowledge and prediction of physical principles, laws, their interrelationships, and applications to understanding fluid, material, and atmospheric dynamics, and mechanical, electrical, atomic and sub- atomic structures and processes.
• Medicine and Dentistry - Knowledge of the information and techniques needed to diagnose and treat human injuries, diseases, and deformities. This includes symptoms, treatment alternatives, drug properties and interactions, and preventive health-care measures.
• English Language - Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.
• Psychology - Knowledge of human behavior and performance; individual differences in ability, personality, and interests; learning and motivation; psychological research methods; and the assessment and treatment of behavioral and affective disorders.

Skills:

• Active Listening - Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
• Reading Comprehension - Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents.
• Speaking - Talking to others to convey information effectively.
• Critical Thinking - Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
• Writing - Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.

Abilities:

• Oral Comprehension - The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
• Problem Sensitivity - The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.
• Arm-Hand Steadiness - The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position.
• Control Precision - The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions.
• Near Vision - The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
• Oral Expression - The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
• Written Comprehension - The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.

Source: Occupational Information Network: Radiologic Technicians.

Knowledge:

• Customer and Personal Service - Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
• Medicine and Dentistry - Knowledge of the information and techniques needed to diagnose and treat human injuries, diseases, and deformities. This includes symptoms, treatment alternatives, drug properties and interactions, and preventive health-care measures.
• English Language - Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.
• Physics - Knowledge and prediction of physical principles, laws, their interrelationships, and applications to understanding fluid, material, and atmospheric dynamics, and mechanical, electrical, atomic and sub- atomic structures and processes.
• Computers and Electronics - Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.

Skills:

• Speaking - Talking to others to convey information effectively.
• Active Listening - Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
• Operation and Control - Controlling operations of equipment or systems.
• Service Orientation - Actively looking for ways to help people.
• Coordination - Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.
• Monitoring - Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
• Operation Monitoring - Watching gauges, dials, or other indicators to make sure a machine is working properly.
• Social Perceptiveness - Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.

Abilities:

• Oral Comprehension - The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
• Oral Expression - The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
• Near Vision - The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
• Arm-Hand Steadiness - The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position.
• Information Ordering - The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
• Problem Sensitivity - The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.

Source: Occupational Information Network: Radiologic Technologists.

Tasks and Activities

Radiologic Technologists and Technicians are grouped into the following occupations for which occupation specific tasks, the most important generalized work activities, and detailed work activities are listed.

• Radiologic Technicians
• Radiologic Technologists

Occupation Specific Tasks:

• Assist with on-the-job training of new employees and students, and provide input to supervisors regarding training performance.
• Assure that sterile and non-sterile supplies such as contrast materials, catheters, films, chemicals, or other required equipment, are present and in working order or requisition materials.
• Collect and maintain records of patients examined, examinations performed, patient medical histories, views taken, and technical factors used.
• Complete quality control activities, monitor equipment operation, and report malfunctioning equipment to supervisor.
• Coordinate work of other technicians or technologists when procedures require more than one person.
• Determine patients' x-ray needs by reading requests or instructions from physicians.
• Explain procedures to patients to reduce anxieties and obtain cooperation.
• Maintain a current file of examination protocols.
• Make exposures necessary for the requested procedures, rejecting and repeating work that does not meet established standards.
• Operate digital picture archiving communications systems.
• 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.
• Perform procedures such as linear tomography, mammography, sonograms, joint and cyst aspirations, routine contrast studies, routine fluoroscopy and examinations of the head, trunk, and extremities under supervision of physician.
• Position patient on examining table and set up and adjust equipment to obtain optimum view of specific body area as requested by physician.
• Position x-ray equipment and adjust controls to set exposure factors, such as time and distance.
• Prepare and set up x-ray room for patient.
• Prepare contrast material, radiopharmaceuticals and anesthetic or antispasmodic drugs under the direction of a radiologist.
• Process exposed radiographs using film processors or computer generated methods.
• Provide assistance in radiopharmaceutical administration, monitoring patients' vital signs and notifying the radiologist of any relevant changes.
• Provide assistance to physicians or other technologists in the performance of more complex procedures.
• Provide students and other technologists with suggestions of additional views, alternate positioning or improved techniques to ensure the images produced are of the highest quality.
• Use beam-restrictive devices and patient-shielding techniques to minimize radiation exposure to patient and staff.

Generalized Work Activities:

• Assisting and Caring for Others - Providing personal assistance, medical attention, emotional support, or other personal care to others such as coworkers, customers, or patients.
• Performing for or Working Directly with the Public - Performing for people or dealing directly with the public. This includes serving customers in restaurants and stores, and receiving clients or guests.
• Interacting With Computers - Using computers and computer systems (including hardware and software) to program, write software, set up functions, enter data, or process information.
• Handling and Moving Objects - Using hands and arms in handling, installing, positioning, and moving materials, and manipulating things.
• Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge - Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job.

Detailed Work Activities:

• collect clinical data
• communicate technical information
• explain testing procedures to patient
• follow clinical radiation safety procedures
• follow dental or medical office procedures
• follow dental or medical x-ray procedures
• follow infectious materials procedures
• follow patient observation procedures
• identify body response variations
• inventory medical supplies or instruments
• lift or transport ill or injured patients
• make presentations on health or medical issues
• observe patient condition
• operate radiologic equipment
• operate ultrasound equipment
• operate x-ray machines
• position patient for therapy
• prepare patients for tests, therapy, or treatments
• record medical history or data
• take vital signs
• understand technical operating, service or repair manuals
• use clinical sterilizing technique
• use darkroom procedures in radiology or medical or dental lab setting
• use emergency medical procedures
• use hazardous materials information
• use interpersonal communication techniques
• use knowledge of medical terminology
• use medical diagnostic equipment
• use quality assurance techniques
• use sanitation practices in health care settings

Source: Occupational Information Network: Radiologic Technicians.

Occupation Specific Tasks:

• Assign duties to radiologic staff to maintain patient flows and achieve production goals.
• Collaborate with other medical team members, such as physicians and nurses, to conduct angiography or special vascular procedures.
• Coordinate work with clerical personnel or other technologists.
• Demonstrate new equipment, procedures, and techniques to staff, and provide technical assistance.
• Explain procedures and observe patients to ensure safety and comfort during scan.
• Key commands and data into computer to document and specify scan sequences, adjust transmitters and receivers, or photograph certain images.
• Measure thickness of section to be radiographed, using instruments similar to measuring tapes.
• Monitor patients' conditions and reactions, reporting abnormal signs to physician.
• Monitor video display of area being scanned and adjust density or contrast to improve picture quality.
• Operate fluoroscope to aid physician to view and guide wire or catheter through blood vessels to area of interest.
• Operate or oversee operation of radiologic and magnetic imaging equipment to produce images of the body for diagnostic purposes.
• Perform administrative duties such as developing departmental operating budget, coordinating purchases of supplies and equipment and preparing work schedules.
• Perform scheduled maintenance and minor emergency repairs on radiographic equipment.
• Position and immobilize patient on examining table.
• Position imaging equipment and adjust controls to set exposure time and distance, according to specification of examination.
• Prepare and administer oral or injected contrast media to patients.
• Provide assistance in dressing or changing seriously ill, injured, or disabled patients.
• Record, process and maintain patient data and treatment records, and prepare reports.
• Remove and process film.
• Review and evaluate developed x-rays, video tape, or computer generated information to determine if images are satisfactory for diagnostic purposes.
• Set up examination rooms, ensuring that all necessary equipment is ready.
• Take thorough and accurate patient medical histories.
• Use radiation safety measures and protection devices to comply with government regulations and to ensure safety of patients and staff.

Generalized Work Activities:

• Assisting and Caring for Others - Providing personal assistance, medical attention, emotional support, or other personal care to others such as coworkers, customers, or patients.
• Getting Information - Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
• Performing for or Working Directly with the Public - Performing for people or dealing directly with the public. This includes serving customers in restaurants and stores, and receiving clients or guests.
• Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge - Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job.
• Controlling Machines and Processes - Using either control mechanisms or direct physical activity to operate machines or processes (not including computers or vehicles).

Detailed Work Activities:

• administer injections
• administer radioactive isotopes
• analyze medical data
• collect clinical data
• communicate technical information
• explain testing procedures to patient
• follow clinical radiation safety procedures
• follow dental or medical office procedures
• follow dental or medical x-ray procedures
• follow infectious materials procedures
• follow patient observation procedures
• identify body response variations
• inventory medical supplies or instruments
• lift or transport ill or injured patients
• make presentations on health or medical issues
• observe patient condition
• operate radiologic equipment
• operate ultrasound equipment
• operate x-ray machines
• position patient for therapy
• prepare patients for tests, therapy, or treatments
• take vital signs
• understand technical operating, service or repair manuals
• use darkroom procedures in radiology or medical or dental lab setting
• use hazardous materials information
• use interpersonal communication techniques
• use knowledge of medical terminology
• use medical diagnostic equipment
• use quality assurance techniques
• use sanitation practices in health care settings

Source: Occupational Information Network: Radiologic Technologists.

Tools and Technology

Radiologic Technologists and Technicians are grouped into the following occupations for which Tools and Technology information is available.

• Radiologic Technicians
• Radiologic Technologists

Radiologic Technicians  View Detailed Report

Tools:

• Medical computed tomography CT or CAT scanners or tubes - Computed tomography CT scanners, High-speed multislice computed tomography CT scanners, Positron emission tomography/computed tomography PET/CT scanners
• Medical radiological positioning aids for general radiological use - Compression bands, Cushions, Patient immobilization devices, Sandbags, Straps
• Medical x ray darkroom equipment or supplies - Automatic x ray film processors, Portable film processors, Self-contained film processors, Tabletop film processors, X ray film processing machines
• Medical x ray film archiving system software - Image storage systems, Picture archiving and communication systems PACS, Scan converters
• Medical x ray intensifying screens - Image intensifiers, X ray image intensifier television systems, X ray imaging charge-coupled device CCD cameras

Technology:

• Data base user interface and query software - Structured data entry software
• Medical software - Diagnostic image review software, Digital Imaging Communications in Medicine DICOM software/modality management software, Electronic medical record EMR software, Film processor tracking and management software, GE Healthcare Centricity EMR

Source: Occupational Information Network: Radiologic Technicians.

Radiologic Technologists  View Detailed Report

Tools:

• Hypodermic needles - Hypodermic needles, Intramuscular needles, Subcutaneous needles, Venipuncture needles
• Medical radiological positioning aids for general radiological use - Compression bands, Cushions, Patient immobilizing devices, Sandbags, Straps
• Medical x ray darkroom equipment or supplies - Automatic x ray film processors, Portable film processors, Self-contained film processors, Tabletop film processors
• Medical x ray film archiving system software - Image storage systems, Picture archiving and communication systems PACS, Scan converters
• Medical x ray intensifying screens - Intensifying screens, X ray image intensifier television systems, X ray imaging charge-coupled device CCD cameras

Technology:

• Data base user interface and query software - Structured data entry software
• Medical software - Diagnostic image review software, Digital Imaging Communications in Medicine DICOM software/modality management software, Electronic medical record EMR software, Film processor tracking and management software, Information management subsystem software

Source: Occupational Information Network: Radiologic Technologists.

Education and Training

Occupation: Radiologic Technologists and Technicians
Most Common Educational/Training Level: Associate degree
Related Instructional Programs:

• Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions, Other
• Medical Radiologic Technology/Science - Radiation Therapist
• Radiologic Technology/Science - Radiographer

WIA Eligible Training Provider List: http://www.pacareerlink.state.pa.us/homeframe.asp?function=trainprov

Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Office of Occupational Statistics and Employment Projections (Education/Training Level, Educational Attainment); National Center for Education Statistics (Typical Instructional Programs)

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