RDGY30300

Learning Outcomes:

Upon successful completion of this module, the student should be able to:

1. Competently perform a wide range of general radiographic examinations and adapt radiographic techniques appropriately for various patient presentations, under supervision.
2. Competently perform portable radiographic examinations under supervision.
3. Select, justify and optimise appropriate projections and techniques for a range of commonly encountered clinical indications and patient presentations, ensuring that appropriate radiation protection measures are applied.
4. Apply a logical system to the assessment of radiographic images for the X-ray examinations, fluoroscopy examinations and theatre imaging taught in Practice of Radiography 1, 2, 3 and 4 and Radiographic Image Interpretation.
5. Demonstrate professionalism, effective teamwork and clear and appropriate communication in all interactions with patients and clinical staff, in accordance with clinical policy.
6. Demonstrate the ability to provide appropriate care for all patients, in accordance with clinical policy.
7. Critically reflect on personal performance and experiences in clinical practice.
8. Practise in accordance with current legislation applicable to the radiography profession.

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

Students must complete the required HSELand training by the set submission date.

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

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, ‘Hand Hygiene’ certification and ‘Basic Life Support’ certification. Students must comply with the UCD Radiography vaccinations policy and fully comply with programme requirements. Students' ‘Basic Life Support’ or ‘Manual Handling’ certificates must be in date to enter the clinical environment. Students who fail to attend or fail to achieve a pass in either ‘Basic Life Support’ or ‘Manual Handling’ during the timeline will have to re-take these components and reach a pass. This may incur a cost to the student.

All UCD-specified HSELand courses that are assigned per stage must be completed and passed as part of this module.
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.'

This provides more explicit detail. Students will not be impacted. The information has been communicated to students who undertake pre-clinical learning requirements when they commence the course.

Module Requisites and Incompatibles

Assessment Strategy

Feedback Strategy/Strategies

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

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