Elements and Performance Criteria
- Elements define the essential outcomes
- Contribute to set-up for medical imaging
- Clean medical imaging equipment and environment within scope of responsibility
- Clean medical imaging equipment using appropriate materials and according to manufacturer’s requirements according to instructions from a medical imaging professional
- Clean examination rooms as required
- Contribute to the maintenance of a tidy and clean medical imaging environment
- Conduct cleaning according to infection control requirements
- Document cleaning processes according to organisation protocols
- Use and dispose of cleaning materials and other waste according to manufacturer and organisation guidelines
- Maintain medical imaging stock
- Provide client support for the imaging process
- Assist the medical imaging professional with client transfers and movement in a manner consistent with safety requirements, medical imaging requirements, relevant lifting policies and infection control requirements according to instructions from a medical imaging professional
- Assist with client and process needs during the medical imaging process under the direction of the medical imaging professional
- Ensure own actions do not compromise sterile field
- Work safely in a medical radiation environment
- Work in a manner consistent with radiation protection principles
- Comply with organisation’s radiation management plan
- Use required personal protective equipment and personal monitoring in the medical imaging environment
- Comply with all safety signs in the medical imaging environment
- Report any concerns about radiation safety according to organisation protocols