Great Basin College Radiology
Technology Program Fall 2015
COURSE: RAD 242B Radiography Quality Management/On Line Course - 1 Credit
INSTRUCTOR: Cherie Jaques
Contact Information: Office: (775)753-2019
Email: cherie.jaques@gbcnv.edu
OFFICE HOURS: 1:00 - 3:0pm Tuesday
1:00-4:00pm Wednesday
Catalog Description:
This is a study of quality control methods, pertaining to equipment and quality issues in the radiology department. This will cover performance improvement studies and
quality assurance programs in relationship to current health care trends. Prerequisites: Admission to the Radiology Technology Program and enrollment into all the
concurrent semester program courses. ARRT registered technologists may also enroll in this class.
Textbook: Quality Management in the Imaging Sciences, 4th Edition
By Jeffrey Pappas ISBN#978-0-323-05761-5
Expected Course Learning Outcomes:
At the end of this course the students will be able to:
1. Identify the need for quality management in the diagnostic imaging department.
2. Discuss the impact of regulation and accreditation processes on quality management.
3. Explain the differences between quality assurance, quality control and quality management.
4. Describe the main components of a quality management program.
5. Understand the importance of a processor and darkroom quality control program.
6. Describe the different quality control programs for radiographic ancillary equipment, such as, digital imaging equipment.
7. List, perform and describe different performance test for fluoroscopic equipment.
Official Drop Date:
The official drop date for this course is November 2, 2015. If you drop after this date, you will receive the grade you have earned even if you have not
completed any work or attended any of the course. The instructor is not allowed to give a Withdraw (W) after this date. You may drop the course online or
visit the admissions office. It is the student’s responsibility to officially withdraw from courses you are not attending.
Grading Criteria:
All students must maintain a GPA of 2.5 or above to continue in the radiology program. A minimum grade of a “C” (75%) is required in the radiology
program, as well as, non radiology course work applies toward the Associate of Applied Science Radiology Technology Program. See chart on the next
page.
100-94%
93-90%
89-87%
86-84%
83-80%
79-77%
76-75%
74-70
69-67%
66-64%
63-60%
Below 59%
A
AB+
B
BC+
C
CD+
D
DF
Late Policy: For each day an assignment is late, 5% will be deducted from the total grade for that assignment.
Class Expectations:
This is an online class with defined due dates. Please see assignment section of this syllabus.
1. All students are expected to be active participants.
2. All students are expected to display respect of fellow students.
3. All students are encouraged to seek additional materials from the library, media and the internet to share with the class.
4. Do not get behind.
Disability Statement:
GBC supports providing equal access for students with disabilities. An advisor is available to discuss appropriate accommodations with students. Please
contact the ADA Officer (Julie Byrnes) at 775-753-2271 at your earliest convenience to request timely and appropriate accommodations.
Academic Honesty:
Plagiarism and Cheating:
Plagiarism is presenting someone else’s words, ideas, or data as one’s own. When a student submits work that includes the words, ideas, or data of
others, the sources of that information must be acknowledged. A nationally recognized plagiarism software may be used to check students work.
Cheating of any kind will not be accepted. Please review the GBC Catalog for the complete policy for plagiarism and cheating.
Instructional Methods:
1. Teaching methods will include learning exercises, written assignments, and hands on experiments.
develop knowledge, skills and attitudes.
A variety of other techniques may be used to
Assignments:
1. Weekly reading.
2. After reading each chapter there will be a weekly review quiz. (50% of grade).
No test corrections are allowed.
3. Projects (50% of grade)
A. Repeat Analysis project-(20% of grade)-Due October 31-no exceptions.
1. Keep track of your repeats for one month during your rotation at your clinical site (RAD226).
a. Read Chapter 10.
b. Copy chart on page 171.
c. Document repeats and amount of images on copied chart. Figure out repeat rates. Figure out which exams you
repeated the most and what you can do to decrease the repeats. Write 200 words in paragraph format.
d. You should have two documents to turn in.
1. Repeat analysis chart.
2. One page paper of 200 words about your repeats.
B. FINAL EXAM (30% of grade)-Due December 8th at 11:59pm-no exceptions.
1. Meet with your clinical site personnel. Get a list of their performance improvement studies. This study could be current
or past. If your site doesn’t have one, you could start your own. Some examples would be: repeat analysis, report turn
around time, mammography biopsy follow ups, patient wait times, patient satisfaction survey, sensitivity values on digital
radiology or marker placement. If the site does not have any, be creative, start one. Do a survey of patient satisfaction,
with approval from your clinical site, of course. DO NOT WAIT- Start collecting data right away!
a. For this study-you will need at least one month of data.
b. You will need to complete a performance improvement paper:(Start collecting your data right away)-READ
THE BELOW REQUIREMENTS CAREFULLY****Make sure you include all.
i. The paper will be 7 pages long, double spaced, MLA format, and use proper grammar (10 pts)
ii. Page one is the title page. It should have the title, your name, your site you are at, and a description of what
your PI is about. 10 pts)
iii. Page two –five will need to: (please refer to Chapter 1 for process) (60pts)
1. State the reason the program is important to the clinical site,
2. Determine if this is a mandatory regulation requirement, if not mandatory, state why they
chose this quality improvement on this issue and the original desired outcome.
3. Describe what the procedure was and the actual outcome.
4. Relate the process chosen to the JCAHO cycle for improving performance on page 11 in your text,
ie., how they designed it, measured it and assess it.
5. Evaluate the process. What do you observe? How could this be improved? What changes could
be made?
iv. Page six-from the above information date, create one chart from the information analysis tools listed in your
text (10 pts)
v. Page seven-works cited page, must include one interview with clinical site personnel(10 pts)
2. This paper is your final
examination.
Course Content:
Week Topic
1-5
Chapter 1
Introduction to Quality Management
Chapter 2
Quality Management Tools and
Procedures
Chapter 10
Outcomes Assessment of Radiographic
Images
Measurement and
correlation to
student learning
outcomes.
1,2,3,4
1,2,3,4
Assignments and Due Date
Assignment1. Read Chapter 1, 2, and 10.
2. Complete Chapter quizzes by Sept 30.
3. Start collecting repeat analysis data-Due October 31.
1,2,3,4,5
6-10
Chapter 3
Film/Screen IR, Darkrooms, and viewing
conditions
Chapter 4
Film Processing
Chapter 5
Processor Quality Control
Chapter 6
Silver Recovery
Chapter 7
QC of X-ray Equipment
1,2,3,4,5
Assignment1. Read Chapters 3-7
2. Complete Chapter Quizzes by October 31.
11-15
Chapter 8
QC of Fluoroscopic Equipment
Chapter 9
Digital and Advanced Imaging
Equipment
Chapter 10
Outcomes Assessment of Radiographic
1-7
Assignment1. Read Chapter 8-12
2. Complete chapter quizzes by November 30.
11-16
Images
Chapter 11
Mammographic Quality Standards
Chapter 12
Quality Control in Computed
Tomography
Final Exam/Paper
Due December 8th. No exceptions!!
TIME COMMITMENT:
Total Class Time- 1 hour reading per week and 2 hour of assignment completion and online testing
Syllabus may be changed to cover needed material at the discretion of the instructor.