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Practice Placement 3

Module description

Please note that Degree Apprenticeship programmes have variable start dates and modules are taught across the full year.

During this final placement you will become an integral member of the multi-professional healthcare team: skilled to deal with a full range of patients using a wide range of modalities. You will have responsibility for organising your working day and liaising with staff in other departments and will gain experience of managing an inter-professional team.

The module commences with an attendance block at the University of Exeter with an emphasis on face-to-face learning. The module then runs over a 12 month period with two further block attendances across the year for further face-to-face learning. In the non-block weeks there will be protected ‘off the job’ learning (one day (7.5 hours) per week) supported by e-learning materials provided by the academic team. The full calendar of activities and assessment will be made available via the handbook. Annual leave may be booked in accordance with the requirements laid out in the handbook.

Module aims - intentions of the module

This third and final general placement enables you to bring together all the skills and knowledge required of a proficient compassionate radiographer. You will work in a range of areas gaining experience of more complex examinations and also of how to organise resources to effectively meet the needs of the department. This final placement will enable you to prepare for your end point assessment and subsequent practice as an autonomous radiographer.

Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs)

ILO: Module-specific skills

On successfully completing the module you will be able to...

• 1. Practice safely and effectively within the scope of this placement, demonstrating proficiency in equipment handling, infection control, radiographic positioning, patient immobilisation, manual handling, optimal exposure selection and image acquisition across all patient age groups
• 2. Care for and communicate with patients of all ages and abilities appropriately, demonstrating a duty of care and awareness of raising concerns and awareness of legal and ethical professional boundaries including confidentiality
• 3. Describe and implement radiation protection measures (including patient identification, interpreting referral information, and ensuring appropriate use of medical imaging)
• 4. Evaluate medical images encountered within the scope of this placement using a recognised methodology, identifying normal, developmental and anatomical variant anatomy, assessing image quality and taking corrective action, using abnormality alerts as per departmental protocol
• 5. Demonstrate the ability to assess, monitor and care for patients, before during and after medical imaging procedures, and be able to recognise the deteriorating patient and have the skills and knowledge to undertake basic life support

ILO: Discipline-specific skills

On successfully completing the module you will be able to...

• 6. Demonstrate the skills needed to support clinical education training, leadership and feedback reflecti on clinical experience and identify personal strengths and areas for further learning
• 7. Maintain accurate records, meeting professional requirements, as well as an individual learning journal

ILO: Personal and key skills

On successfully completing the module you will be able to...

• 8. Contribute positively to the placement department, working in partnership with service users, work effectively with other professions and professionals, support staff and others, ensure effective management of caseload and resources
• 9. Practice within limits of own proficiency seeking advice as appropriate, accepting responsibility for decisions made and having awareness of own physical and mental wellbeing.
• 10. Solve problems using knowledge, experience and personal initiative

Syllabus plan

Learning activities and teaching methods (given in hours of study time)

Details of learning activities and teaching methods

Formative assessment

Summative assessment (% of credit)

Details of summative assessment

Details of re-assessment (where required by referral or deferral)

Re-assessment notes

This programme runs to a non-standard timetable; assessment weeks and Assessment, Progression & Awarding Committees (APACs) for both initial and deferred assessments are held as per the programme’s published timetable.

A pass at 40% in each of these assessment components is necessary to pass the module (including the Skills and Proficiency Log).. Structured Objective Assessments of Practice (SOAPs) must be taken and passed within the placement period for the module; any required assessment not taken within this time is deemed to have been failed. An apprentice who has failed a SOAP component may be reassessed once within the placement period. A second-attempt component mark is capped at 40%. If a second attempt is also failed, a final assessment attempt is permitted, in such cases both the reassessment component mark and the module mark will be capped at 40%. If any component is not passed at the final referral attempt, the module is capped at 39%.

*Record of completion of knowledges, skills and behaviours is achieved through the submission of a completed e-Portfolio and includes evidence of academic achievement within each module of the programme. Where repeat study is offered for a failed module and provided all other components of RAD3004aDA have been achieved, the completion date for the Record of completion will be delayed until that period of repeat study is completed. The marks for RAD3004aDA will not be ratified until that point. A delay period of 12 months maximum will be permitted. If other assessment components of RAD3004aDA have not been achieved, the delay period will not apply and the record of completion will be deemed to have not been achieved i.e. RAD3004aDA has been failed.

Indicative learning resources - Basic reading

• Raby N. (2014), Accident and Emergency Radiology - A Survival Guide (3rd edition), Saunders Ltd, ISBN 9780702042324

• Whitley AS, Jefferson G, Holmes K, Hoadley G, Sloane C, Anderson C. (2015) Clark's Positioning in Radiography (13th edition). CRC Press, London. ISBN 9781444122350

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Indicative learning resources - Web based and electronic resources

• UK Statutory Instruments (2017), Ionising Radiation Regulations 2017, The Stationary Office, Available from https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/1075/contents/made  
• UK Statutory Instruments (2017), The Ionising Radiation (Medical Exposure) Regulations 2017, The Stationery Office, Available from http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/1322/made  
• UK Statutory Instruments (2018), The Ionising Radiation (Medical Exposure) (Amendment) Regulations 2018, The Stationary Office, Available from http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2018/121/contents/made 
• The Health & Safety Executive (2018), Work with Ionising Radiation. Ionising Radiations Regulations 2017: Approved Code of Practice and Guidance, HSE Books, ISBN 9780717666621 
• Standards of conduct performance and ethics https://www.hcpc-uk.org  
• Code of Professional Conduct, College of Radiographers (2013), Society and College of Radiographers, https://www.sor.org/  
• Principles for continuing professional development and lifelong learning in health and social care, Society and College of Radiographers, https://www.sor.org/ 
• Obtaining consent: a clinical guideline for the diagnostic imaging and radiotherapy workforce, Society and College of Radiographers, https://www.sor.org/  
• Guidance on mental capacity decisions in diagnostic imaging and radiotherapy, Society and College of Radiographers https://www.sor.org/ 
• The Scope of Practice 2013, Society and College of Radiographers, https://www.sor.org/

Indicative learning resources - Other resources

• Carlton R.R. and Adler A.M. (2013), Radiographic Imaging Concepts and Principles (5^th edition), Delmar, ISBN 1473720524
• Ehrlich R.A. and Daly J.A. (2017), Patient Care in Radiography (9th edition), Mosby, ISBN 9780323377713
• Johns C. (2013), Becoming a Reflective Practitioner (4^th edition), Wiley-Blackwell, ISBN 9780470674260
• Society and College of Radiographers (2006), Health Care Associated Infections (HCAIs) Practical Guidance and Advice, Society and College of Radiographers, ISBN 1 871101 39 5

Key words search

Medical Imaging, Patient, Radiation, Protection, Anatomy, Pathologies, Protocols, Care