Your Job, Your Future

Your Job, Your Future

When completing your Career Plan Booklet you are given the opportunity to investigate a career that interests you.

You will research your chosen career and present your information as a Google Doc Report

FQ 1: What does my chosen Job entail?

You should provide the following information about your job, a good source of information is the http://www.careers.govt.nz/ website

1. Provide a one paragraph written overview / summary of your job.

       Medical Radiation Technologist use x-ray and other imaging equipment to take images of injuries and diseases.

2. What are the working conditions like?

Medical radiation technologists:

usually do shift work, which may include weekends and evenings

may be on call, particularly at public hospitals

work in hospitals, medical laboratories, private practices, and clinics.

3. What skills and knowledge are required for this career?

It needs to have knowledge of human anatomy, physiology and pathology, positioning and imaging techniques, and how to use x-ray equipment, physics and radiation physics

, safety issues related to the use of radiation equipment and radioactive materials.

4. What are the personal qualities that you require to do this job?

• provide information to patients about what will happen during their examinations.
• prepare patients and equipments for examination.
• produce diagnostic images
• check the quality of images taken
• make reports
• perform quality assurance testing on equipment   

5. What are the key tasks that you will do in this job?

Medical radiation technologists prepare and comfort patients for scans

6. How much will you earn? Salary? And what are the work hours like?

Medical radiation technologists with one to six years experience may earn between $50,000 and $69,000 a year.

Medical radiation technologists with more than six years experience may earn between $71,000 and $98,000.

usually do shift work, which may include weekends and evenings.

7. What training and education is required for this career? How long does the training take and cost?

   

   3 years of training is required.

   Certificate, associate's degree or bachelor's degree in radiologic technology

   State licensure or certification

   

8. What pre-requisites are there to get into the training course?

       

9. What subjects will you need to study in school to prepare you for this career?

                       Anatomy

• Biology
• Chemistry
• Mathematics
• Physics

10. Add any interesting information about your chosen career that you may find

     

11. Add in an image / photo / picture that relates to your job

FQ 2: What are the advantages and disadvantages of your job

1. Identify the positive, negative and interesting aspects about your chosen job by completing a PMI Chart

Positive	Negative	Interesting
Say goodbye to boring routines. You can work pretty much anywhere. You can earn a healthy living. It’s a career you can feel good about. You can have your own leisure time when you are not on call. Allows you to help others Can work in various medical settings.	Work hours may include evenings, weekends and holidays. May require lifting or turning heavy or disabled patients. Possible exposure to radiation. Work may require travel to remote locations. Work may require standing for long periods.	They have to deal with completely uncooperative individuals to get on the x-ray table and position them. Being able to do our job well, even under immense stress, could mean the difference between a patient’s life and death, or them being able to receive an appropriate diagnosis.

Reflecting

Once you have completed your interview, think about your persons responses and write a quick summary discussing the following points:

1. Has technology impacted on their job? If so, how?

it will impact radiology by the technology that improves every year in our today’s society, That includes patient history, problems, information about the order; patient allergies will be accessible to the radiologists in the click of the button. The orders will come in, in a cleaner fashion; right now they come in on paper, and radiology can help provide decision support in the ordering process, so that the right test is ordered for the right patient and the report will come in with all of the information that the radiologist needs.

2. Was there anything discussed that surprised you?

None.

3. How do you think their working experience will differ from your own?

          I think it will differ their working experience from my own by how long they have become a radiologist and by experience as well, but it will not differ from mine if I worked hard to improve my skills as a radiologist.

FQ 4: Evaluating your Job – the what and why you are interested in this career

You need to answer these questions and you are expected to write a paragraph for each.

1. Why you think this job is important, what values does it promote?

     I think this job is important because you can help others and Radiology’s role is central to disease management, with a wide choice of tools and techniques available for the detection, staging and treatment. Diagnostic imaging provides detailed information about structural or disease related changes. Early diagnosis saves lives. Without diagnosis there can be no treatment, there can be no cure.

2. Why have you chosen this career to investigate?

I have chosen this because I was curious if I can do this job and if it will suit my liking and my interest, and I want to help people and serve them.

3. What qualities and skills do you already have that suit this career?

• My social skills for preparing the patient.
• My understanding and following instructions.
• My eagerness to help people.

4. What qualities and skills do you need to develop for this career?

    My experience and to improve my social skills to suit the liking of the patient.

5. The job market is competitive, what can you do now or in the near future to out-compete others for this job.

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FQ 5: What were your sources of Information – bibliography

Include a bibliography which lists the details in full of the different sources of information used.  If you are unsure how to set out your bibliography, check the Library webpage.

https://oarinfo.ca/radiologists/importance-radiology

FQ 6: Reflecting on the Research Process

1. What worked / went well for you during the research?

My researching skills improved during this research.

2. What have you found challenging during the research?

       The sometimes lack of information and explanation and the complicated words.

3. How did you try to overcome these challenges?

      I tried to understand it and revise it and put it to my own words instead.

4. If you were to do this again what would you do differently and why?

    None.

Being a Medical Radiation Technologist

“Radiologists save lives.  Image interpretation is the most visible contribution of radiologists. The population should be informed about the importance of diagnostic imaging.”-Dr. Tayo Denton

Career Investigation Success Criteria
All requirements have been meet to a high standard, including a comprehensive bibliography.  A wide range of information has been provided and the presentation has real impact.	Level 5A
All requirements have been meet to a good standard.  A bibliography has been included.  Information provided is relevant and presentation is neat and tidy	Level 5P
Most of the work has been completed to a reasonable standard and most of the requirements have been covered.  A bibliography has been included.	Level 5B
Minimum requirement for Level Five are not meet  The work is not presented clearly, lacking organisation or style and information is at a very basic level.	Level 4A

Careers 2k17

2017 Year 10 Careers Essay

QUESTIONS

1.  Using the research you have just gathered on your chosen job, Explain in an essay..

What are the key aspects of the chosen job or career you have studied this year

• What Criteria do you need to get into the job/career
• What skills and qualities are needed to work in this job/career
• Describe the day in the life of the job/career

Introduction

Write it here:

This essay will explain what the key criteria, skills and qualities are needed in order to be a Medical Radiation Technologist, It will also explain what it is like in the day to day life for a Medical Radiation Technologist.

Statement about your chosen career	Explanation of the skill or quality needed for this chosen Career	Example of this skill or quality in this career	Link back to the question and to the next paragraph.
Paragraph 1 To become a Medical Radiation Technologist there are many key criteria required to enter this career or job.	The key criteria for becoming a Medical Radiation Technologist: You need to get a certificate, associate's degree or bachelor's degree in radiologic technology and    State licensure or certification.   In high school and college, you need to take Anatomy, Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics and Physics. And after this, you need to do 3 years of training.		These are the key criteria needed in order to become a Medical Radiation Technologist.
Paragraph 2 To become a Medical Radiation Technologist there are many important skills and qualities required to enter this career.	It needs to have knowledge of human anatomy, physiology and pathology, positioning and imaging techniques, and how to use x-ray equipment, physics and radiation physics, safety issues related to the use of radiation equipment and radioactive materials.		These are the key skills and qualities required to enter the career of a Medical Radiation Technology.
Paragraph 3 The day to day life of being a Medical Radiation Technologist requires a variety of activities. This will be discussed in this paragraph.	Being a Radiation Technologist requires waking up early, getting ready for appointments during the day, doing procedure in different departments, taking parent’s biopsy, encouraging and making my patients comfortable during their appointments.	The examples are by putting and laying your patients down comfortably and setting up the machine you’ll use in your appointments.

Conclusion:

Write it here

Therefore I conclude that there are many key criteria, important skills and qualities required to be an Medical Radiation Technologist. Some of these are having a degree and completing bachelor’s degree in Radiologic technology. The general day to day life of an Medical Radiation Technologist involves many hours in hospitals and in appointments with patients.

Creative Writing #1

                                                                      My First Draft

Title: Winning the near impossible!

Have you ever challenged yourself outside of your comfort zone and not knowing what the
outcome of it? I have. I challenged myself by playing a sport which is what I’m not familiar with and not knowing how hard and frustrating it can get. I first started when my friends encouraged me to pick a sport knowing that I don’t do any sports, I vigorously force myself to pick Volleyball and at first I thought I’m only doing it in short-term. I remember the feeling that rushed into my body when I first went inside the court and saw many people trying out, trying to get into the team, I can feel the warmth of the gym as it was one of a scorching day in the summer season and I can feel the eagerness of the people around me. I can hear the whistle and I can see the balls spring up and down. I try to link myself into this unfamiliar sport which I have come to love and my teammates and as we need to unite as a team, we started to get to know each other and know each other’s weaknesses and strengths to help each other improve and so we can work and connect with each other easily inside and outside the court.

Our coach eagerly join our team into a competition, surprising us and making us panic as this was our first competition but we still prepare ourselves and enhance our teamwork few weeks before the tournament. On the day of the tournament, we all got into the van with anxiousness and eagerness to win the tournament. As we walk into the court, we calm and set ourselves down, in hand. The game started and we all can hear our own pounding heart as the opponents had the ball first, our game started fresh and it was going good and it has exceeded the coach and our expectation not knowing what risk we are about to experience. My teammate spiked the ball into the opponent’s side and it got in and as she was about to land, she twisted and landed with her ankle gaining sprains. We needed to carry on with uncertainty and losing something of value during the game.
A wave of anxiousness and fear rose up in me like a volcano, for only a week earlier we train and enhance our team, losing something during the game makes me hysterical throughout the game. We tried our best throughout the game with the feelings we got in the worst scenario that could ever happen in court, losing and hurting a teammate. It all got into us but we decided and managed to focus on the game, and we did this for our teammate who got hurt. We luckily managed to have someone who can sub her and after all the circumstances, we got through it together. We demonstrated a team who can work as whole even though there were circumstances but we managed to won the game making us put all the fear and anxiousness aside. I knew we weren’t the perfect team ever. We did what most teammates can do during a circumstance. but either way, it sure felt good to be on a team who can unite inside and outside the court.