Semester with Course
Ref. # (CRN)
FALL 2015
CRN 79544, 80235
Instructor contact information
Catherine Schaet, 713-718-7681, Catherine.schaet@hccs.edu
Glenn Smith, 713-718-7354, glenn.smith@hccs.edu
Vikki Davis-Littleton, 713-718-7398, vikki.davislittleton@hccs.edu
Pamela Alderman, 972-860-4281, pamela.alderman@hccs.edu
Office
Location and Hours
Coleman Campus: Room 524,525 , By arrangement
Coleman Campus: Room 529, Monday 2:00 – 4:00 pm, Friday 12:00 – 3:00 pm
Brookhaven Campus: RM X3022E
Clinical Sites: 8:00-am 4:30 pm Course
Location/Ti mes
Course
Semester
Credit Hrs
(SCH)
Credit Hours 2.00
Lecture Hours
Laboratory Hours
External Hours 14.00
Total Course
Contact Hrs
224.00
Continuing
Education
Units (CEU): if applicable
N/A
Course
Length (# of weeks)
12
Type of
Instruction
Practicum
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Course
Description:
Practical, general workplace training supported by an individualized learning plan developed by the employer, college, and student.
Course
Prerequisite( s)
PREREQUISITE(S):

Admission to Program.
FREQUENT REQUISITES

College Level Writing

Departmental approval

Admission to the Program

College Level Reading

College Level Mathematics
Academic
Discipline/C
TE Program
Learning
Outcomes
1. Demonstrate patient care tasks in the patient care course lab setting.
2. Demonstrate radiation safety techniques to minimize radiation exposure.
3. Demonstrate quality control procedures.
4. Prepare/administer radiopharmaceuticals.
5. Perform imaging and non-imaging nuclear medicine procedures.
6. Correlate different nuclear medicine procedures normal anatomy and abnormal pathology on a nuclear medicine image.
Course
Student
Learning
Outcomes
(SLO): 4 to 7
1. Process nuclear medicine study related paperwork.
2. Position patients for routine imaging studies.
3. Perform in-vivo non-imaging studies.
Learning
Objectives
(Numbering system should be linked to
SLO - e.g.,
1.1, 1.2, 1.3, etc.)
Process nuclear medicine study related paperwork.
1. Locate necessary information contained in the patient's chart.
2. Complete the required form with the necessary chart information.
3. Identify artifacts on nuclear medicine images.
4. Label the views of a nuclear medicine image.
Position patients for routine imaging studies.
1. Identify the patient for a nuclear medicine procedure.
2. Explain the details of a nuclear medicine procedure.
3. Position a patient for an imaging study.
Perform in-vivo non-imaging studies.
1. Perform a thyroid uptake study.
2. Calculate a thyroid uptake from the collected data.
SCANS and/or Core
Curriculum
Competenci es: If applicable
Process nuclear medicine study related paperwork.
Workplace Competencies - Information -Acquires & Evaluates
Position patients for routine imaging studies.
Foundation Skills - Thinking -Reasoning
Foundation Skills - Personal Qualities -Social
Workplace Competencies - Interpersonal -Serves Clients/Customers
Perform in-vivo non-imaging studies.
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Course
Outline PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVES FOR NMTT 1166
I. REVIEW NUCLEAR MEDICINE STUDY RELATED PAPERWORK
A. Locate necessary information contained in the patient chart and complete the required form.
B. Identify artifact that appear in images or quality assurance test and complete the appropriate form.
C. Label the view in several imaging studies and verify that they are correct by completing the appropriate form.
D. Record the results of at least two studies in which you participated on the appropriate form.
E. Discuss isolation procedures.
Laboratory Exercise
Given a patient's chart, the student should be able to:
1. Locate physician's order for the procedure.
2. Describe medications being administered to patient which may interfere with the procedure.
3. Identify the chief complaint of the patient.
II. PERFORMANCE OF RADIATION SAFETY PRACTICES
A. Perform an ambient dose survey of at least two areas in the
department
B. Perform wipe test in at least two rooms in the department
C. Identify the radiation safety officer for the department
D. Perform a receipt of radioactive material for the department
E. Identify the sealed sources in the department requiring leak
testing
III. SUPERVISED PERFORMANCE OF ROUTINE IMAGING STUDIES
Given a proficiency checklist, a patient and an order for one of the following procedures, properly identify the patient, explain the procedure, and position the patient for the imaging procedure
( see the list which follows )
A. Liver Scan
B. Parathyroid
C. Bone Scan ( whole body and spot views )
D. Thyroid scan
E. Brain Scan
F. Hepatobiliary Study
G. Lung Scan
Perfusion
Ventilation
H. Renal Studies
Renal image
Renal flow (GFR)
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Renogram (ERPF)
I. Cardiac studies
Other imaging procedures considered to be routine at individual affiliated institution
IV. SUPERVISED PERFORMANCE OF IN-VIVO NON-IMAGING STUDIES
The student should be able to:
A. Perform thyroid uptake and calculate data.
B. Perform other simple functional studies considered to be
routine at individual affiliated institution
Students should complete positioning check-offs on at least five studies, two quality assurance test and complete studies on at least two routine studies, with at least 80% proficiency. This is a minimum to receive a “C”. If these minimums are not completed, the student will receive a failing grade for this practicum.
Instructional
Methods
Web-enhanced (49% or less)
Face to Face
Student
Assignment s
Instructor's
Requirements
Process nuclear medicine study related paperwork.
Discussions
Papers
Lab Exercises
Position patients for routine imaging studies.
Service learning projects
Presentations
Lab Exercises
Perform in-vivo non-imaging studies.
Discussions
Service learning projects
Presentations
Lab Exercises
Student
Assessment
(s)
Process nuclear medicine study related paperwork.
In-class discussions
Reading and then writing about seminal texts and theories
Position patients for routine imaging studies.
In-class discussions
Quizzes/Tests which may include: definitions, matching, multiple choice, true/false, short answer, brief essay
Presentations
Perform in-vivo non-imaging studies.
In-class discussions
Reading and then writing about seminal texts and theories
Quizzes/Tests which may include: definitions, matching, multiple choice, true/false, short answer, brief essay
Presentations
The clinical sites may assign projects. Reading assignment will be given a week before clinical quizzes. The quiz will be over the reading assignment.
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Records Maintained By The Student In Each Practicum
It is the responsibility of the student to maintain records of their progress in a practicum on two types of forms. The first is an Accounting Form which is filled out by the student and signed by the clinical instructor or supervising technologist. This form is used to account for every procedure performed by a student during his/her rotation in a hospital.
These forms must be turned in to the clinical coordinator weekly . Forms are due each
Tuesday morning at 9:00am.
Accounting forms will NOT be accepted more than a week late and the days without accounting forms will be considered as absences .
The second type of form is a group of forms with the broad heading of " Session Review
Forms" which includes the following four:
1. reviewing scans
2. identifying artifacts
3. medical histories
4. labeling scans
Tally Form – The student is required to input the weekly studies onto the tally spreadsheet and submit an updated copy on-line each week. Submissions are due by
Tuesday at 23:55pm.
The third form is a Timesheet . Students must sign in and out each day. The timesheet must remain at the clinical facility. If a student is sent home because of no patients or other administrative reasons, the student should sign out for the correct time but the clinical supervisor must initial the time.
These forms must also be signed by the clinical instructor or supervising technologist. A combination of ten of these forms is required this semester, at least two of each. These forms must be turned in to the clinical coordinator as completed, no more than two a week. If accounting forms are not turned in weekly, 2 points per week will be deducted from the mid-term or final exam.
Each student is expected to return their radiation dosimetry badges at the beginning of each month. If a student loses a badge, the following penalties will be imposed: First loss = 5 points off the final exam and must complete paperwork with program RSO;
Second loss = 10 points off final grade , must complete paperwork and must donate 4 hours of clerical work to program office
Cell Phones : Cell phones must not ring in the clinical site. A cell phone may be in the possession of the student; but the student cannot answer the phone or text in the department. The student may obtain permission to leave the department, if the call is an emergency, to answer the call in an area where phones are permitted.
A student may NOT text in the department. Violation of these policies may result in removal from a clinical site and possibly dismissal from the program.
ATTENDANCE : Research has shown that the single most important factor in student success is attendance! Therefore, attendance and punctuality are mandatory. HCCS policy states that students absent from this course for more than 12.5% of the total hours of instruction will be administratively dropped. This class has 224 contact hours.
A student may be dropped after 28 hours of absence from lab and lecture combined.
If a student enters the clinic more than thirty minutes after the clinicals has begun or leaves more than thirty minutes early, they will be counted absent on that day.
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All time missed will count off in grading. Proficiencies may not be completed after the end of the semester, except in instances where the clinical supervisor determines it to be a special circumstance.
However, e xcused absences are allowed if the student has to appear in court, has a severe personal illness, accident, or death in the immediate family (parent, child, brother, sister, spouse, or grandparent). In the event any of these occur, the student must call and speak personally with the instructor @
713-718-7398 or the clinical coordinator @ 713-718-7355 on the day the absent occurs.
The student must also call the clinical supervisor at the clinic and report the absence.
The student must provide documented evidence of the reason for missing the clinic class, i.e.: a doctor's statement in the case of severe personal illness, the student’s name and date on the court’s documentation, an accident report in the case of an accident or an obituary or funeral program in the case of death in the immediate family.
This documentation must be provided prior to the approval of the excused absence. The absence must not extend beyond the 12.5% of absences allowed in the course. If the student has missed over 12.5% of the class they will be administratively withdrawn from the class. If the student has missed less than 12.5% of the class the points will be deducted from the grade.
Students are expected to call the clinical site and the program office if they will be absent . Please call Ms. Vikki at 713-718-7398 or Mrs. Hyder at 713-718-7355. If the student does not call both locations 5 points will be deducted from the final exam grade for each occurrence.
Students will not be allowed to attend clinicals unless they have an acceptable physical examination, all required immunizations, a negative drug screen, acceptable background check and CPR certification.
The student is required to wear a lab coat and radiation badge at all times when in the clinical department, unless they are told by the clinical supervisor to refrain from wearing the lab coat.
Academic Honesty : Students are responsible for conducting themselves with honor and integrity in fulfilling course requirements. Penalties and/or disciplinary proceedings may be initiated by College System officials against a student accused of scholastic dishonesty.
“Scholastic dishonesty” includes, but is not limited to, cheating on a test, plagiarism and collusion.
“Cheating” on a test includes:

Entering incorrect information on accounting forms or timesheets
 Copying from another student’s test paper;

Using materials during a test that are not authorized by the person giving the test;

Collaborating with another student during a test without authority;

Knowingly using, buying, selling, stealing, transporting, or soliciting in whole or part the contents of an un-administered test;

Bribing another person on obtain a test that is to be administered

Using an electronic device not authorized by the person giving the test.
“Plagiarism” means the appropriation of another’s work and the unacknowledged incorporation of that work in one’s own written work offered for credit.
“Collusion” means the unauthorized collaboration with another person in preparing
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written work offered for credit.
Possible punishments for acad emic dishonesty may include a grade of “0” or “F” on the particular assignment, failure in the course, and/or recommendation for probation or dismissal from the College System. A recommendation for suspension or expulsion will be referred to the College Dean of Students for disciplinary disposition.
WITHDRAWAL : If you feel that you cannot complete this course, you will need to withdraw from the course prior to the final date of withdrawal. Before you withdraw from your course, please take time to meet with the instructor to discuss why you feel it is necessary to do so. The instructor may be able to provide you with suggestions that would enable you to complete the course. Your success is very important. Beginning in fall 2007, the Texas Legislature passed a law limiting first time entering freshmen to no more than SIX total course withdrawals throughout their educational career in obtaining a certificate and/or degree.
To help students avoid having to drop//withdraw from any class, HCC has instituted an
Early Alert process by which your professor may “alert” you and HCC counselors that you might fail a class because of excessive absences and/or poor academic performance. It is your responsibility to visit with your professor or a counselor to learn about what, if any, HCC interventions might be available to assist you- online tutoring, child care, financial aid, job placement, etc. – to stay in class and improve your academic performance.
If a student feels that they cannot complete the course, he or she will need to withdraw from the course prior to the final date of withdrawal. Before withdrawing, the student should meet with the instructor to discuss the decision. After withdrawal, the student must meet with the department head to complete an exit interview (refer to the nuclear medicine technology handbook for more information).
Program/Disci pline
Requirements:
If applicable
The student will be given a copy of the studies done routinely and periodically at their
Assigned clinical facility. They will be expected to be evaluated on positioning in the majority of the routine studies as listed on the totals sheet in their student handbook.
They should accumulate at least eleven competencies (at least six of which must be studies) and additional competencies on all studies done independently or supervised at least 4 times. If a student fails to meet this criteria, they will receive an "Incomplete" in the practicum until the competencies are completed and there will also be a ten point deduction on their grade. If they are not completed by the next semester, they will not be allowed to continue to the next practicum.
Program/Discipline Requirements
Students will not be allowed to attend clinicals unless they have an acceptable physical examination, all required immunizations, a negative drug screen, acceptable background check and CPR certification.
SEE THE NUCLEAR MEDICINE TECHNOLOGY PROGRAM HANDBOOK FOR DRESS CODE AND
OTHER CLINICAL PROCEDURAL INFORMATION
HCC Grading
Scale
A = 100- 90
B = 89 - 80:
C = 79 - 70:
D = 69 - 60:
59 and below = F
IP (In Progress)
4 points per semester hour
3 points per semester hour
2 points per semester hour
1 point per semester hour
0 points per semester hour
0 points per semester hour
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Instructor
Grading
Criteria
W(Withdrawn) 0 points per semester hour
I (Incomplete) 0 points per semester hour
AUD (Audit) 0 points per semester hour
IP (In Progress) is given only in certain developmental courses. The student must re-enroll to receive credit. COM (Completed) is given in non-credit and continuing education courses. To compute grade point average (GPA), divide the total grade points by the total number of semester hours attempted. The grades "IP," "COM" and "I" do not affect GPA.
For Health Science programs, see the Program/Discipline Requirements section for specific grading requirements.
The final grade will be determined by averages described:
Clinical evaluations by Clinical Instructor 50%
[Evaluations must include proficiency checklist on all studies done independently or supervised more than five times. The student must also be evaluated on positioning for a majority of studies shown on the specific clinic list. The numbers listed are minimums. The student is expected to exceed these minimum expectations.]
Clinical evaluations and examinations by the Clinical Coordinator 35%
Accounting Forms
Quizzes
Mid-Term Exam
Final Exam
Attendance
Review Sessions Forms
5%
10%
10%
10%
10%
5%
Attendance Grade will be as follows:
(This is based on the 28 hours allowed before being dropped from the class)
½ day missed-85.7%
1day missed-71.4%
1 ½ day missed-57.1%
2day missed-42.8%
2 ½ day missed – 28.57%
3 day missed – 14.28%
3 ½ day missed - 0
Each student is expected to return their radiation dosimetry badges at the beginning of each month. If a student loses a badge, the following penalties will be imposed: First loss = 5 points off the final exam and must complete paperwork with program RSO; Second loss = 10 points off final grade, must complete paperwork and must donate 4 hours of clerical work to program office
The student will be given a copy of the studies done routinely and periodically at their assigned clinical facility. They will be expected to be evaluated on performing the routine studies as listed for their clinical facility. The student should also refer to procedures on the totals sheet in their student handbook. They should accumulate at least fifteen competencies (at least eight of which must be studies) including competencies on all studies done independently or supervised at least
4 times. If a student fails to meet at least 75% of this criterion, they will receive an “F” for the course. If the student completes 75 – 85%, they will receive a 10 point deduction on the final
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Instructional
Materials grade.
If the student has exceeded one day absence by the last day of the semester, but less than 5 days, they may be given an “incomplete” in the practicum until the time is made-up. Although all time exceeding one day will be made-up, 5 points will be deducted for every day missed. If the time is not completed by the next semester, they will not be allowed to continue to the next practicum.
GRADING SCALE
90 - 100 A
80 - 89
75 - 79
B
C
Below 75 F
Remember: You need a C or better to continue to the next semester
Required: NONE
References: Nuclear Medicine Technology Student Handbook
Nuclear Medicine and PET Technology and Techniques,
7th Edition, Christian, Waterstram-Rich
Mosby, 2012
Nuclear Medicine Procedure Manual--------------------------- 2012-2014
Klingensmith, Eshima, Goddard------------------------------ Oxford Medical, Inc., 2012-2013
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