Course Description: This course offers students a clinical overview of medical imaging as it pertains to patient care.  Understanding medical imaging procedures, equipment, patient education, and communication are the major topics.  Infection control, patient care and assessment, examination preparation are just a few of the many clinical aspects of radiology in relationship to the healthcare environment.

Required Textbook:

Patient Care in Radiography, 10^th Edition, Ruth Ann Ehrlich & Dawn M. Coakes, 2021.

Additional Textbooks:

Introduction to Radiologic Imaging Sciences and Patient Care, 8th Edition. Adler, Arlene & Carlton, Richard

Required Materials: Pens, pencils, calculator (for dose calculations of contrast), notebook, laptop/tablet