RDGY10170

Learning Outcomes:

Upon successful completion of this module, the student should be able to:
- Competently perform a wide range of general radiographic examinations within the context of professional
guidelines and current legislation.
- Select, justify and optimise appropriate projections and techniques for a range of commonly encountered clinical indications and patient presentations ensuring appropriate radiation protective measures are applied.
- Accurately evaluate image quality and radiographic outcomes
- Demonstrate knowledge of radiographic pathologies encountered.
- Demonstration professionalism, effective teamwork and communication in all interactions with patients and clinical staff
- Demonstrate personal ability to care for patients appropriately during all examinations as per clinical policy.
- Critically reflect on their performance and experiences in clinical practice.
- Apply a logical system to the assessment of radiographic images for the examinations and imaging taught in: RDGY10110 Practice of Radiography 1 & RDGY10070 Practice of Radiography 2.
- Demonstrate professionalism, effective teamwork and communication in all interactions with patients and clinical staff as per the UCD Radiography student clinical policy.
- Demonstrate personal ability to care appropriately for all patients as per the UCD Radiography student clinical policy.
- Critically reflect on their performance in clinical practice.
-Practice in accordance with current legislation applicable to the work of their profession

Students must complete all mandated HSEland elearning training by the submission dates, inaddition of completing health checks, garda vetting, in-person training & vaccination schedule as required by the Department of Radiography.

Attendance at the ‘Compulsory Clinical Entry’ lecture is mandatory for this module.

Full attendance at clinical placement is compulsory and any missed clinical placement time must be rectified as per CORU and departmental requirements.

Indicative Module Content:

Patient care & professionalism in healthcare
Justification of X-ray examinations and optimisation of technique
Radiation protection
Radiographic technique for general X-ray examinations
Critical appraisal of general X-ray radiographic images

Student Effort Hours:

Approaches to Teaching and Learning:

Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations

Full attendance at clinical placement is compulsory and any missed clinical placement time must be rectified as per CORU and departmental requirements.
Attendance at the ‘Compulsory Clinical Entry’ (CCE) lecture is mandatory for this module. This lecture is designed to introduce students to life in the clinical department specific to their stage. Students who fail to attend will be required to undertake an individual discussion session with the module coordinator, before they are allowed to attend clinical placement. Failure to attend the CCE lecture may inevitably result in a delay to the start of the student’s clinical placement. All clinical days missed must be remediated.
In line with departmental policy, students who do not complete the module placements within the prescribed clinical placement period will be scheduled for Clinical Recovery Placements to facilitate students in the completion of the clinical placement requirements. The ‘Clinical Recovery Placements’ will, in agreement with supervising practice tutors, be scheduled within the clinical environment. This may involve clinical placement during university holiday periods. Progression to the next stage is not normally allowed if the clinical modules required in each stage of the programme are not completed prior to the start of the next academic session.
Compulsory programme requirements must be completed in advance of clinical placement including- garda vetting certification, manual handling certification, ‘Children First’ certification, ‘Hand Hygiene’ certification and ‘Basic Life Support’ certification. Students must comply with the UCD Radiography vaccinations policy and fully comply with programme requirements.
Students who fail to attend or fail to achieve a pass in either ‘Basic Life Support’ or ‘Manual Handling’ will have to re-take these components and reach a pass before entering the clinical environment. This may incur a cost to the student.
All UCD-specified HSELand courses that are assigned per stage must be completed and passed in advance of clinical placement.
During clinical placement, students are expected to abide by the ‘UCD Student Code of Conduct’ and any other clinical departmental policies and procedures. Any breach of these matters may result in the student being placed on the ‘UCD Fitness to Practice’ pathway.
Full guidance relating to the regulations on clinical placement is available in the ‘UCD Clinical Placement Student Handbook’.
Candidates must achieve at least 100% attendance at clinical placements, and must successfully complete relevant specified learning activities and assessments. Candidates not achieving the requisite attendance must undertake such clinical placement as is considered necessary to address the deficit.

Module Requisites and Incompatibles

Assessment Strategy

Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
• Group/class feedback, post-assessment

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

- Feedback individually to students, post-assessment - Group/class feedback, post-assessment - Self-assessment activities