MRS Residency 2 (9cp) (10024.3)

This unit continues and finalises students' medical radiation science clinical residency. Students will demonstrate safe beginning practitioner skills as a diagnostic radiographer. These residencies provide the opportunity for students to demonstrate their clinical skills and critical evaluation and reflective practice skills in a supervised environment. Students are required to pass the placement and related competency tasks to successfully complete this unit.

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, students will be able to:
1. Plan, safely perform and evaluate routine and complex radiographic examinations to meet professional capabilities, under indirect supervision;
2. Autonomously comply with ethical, professional and culturally safe practices, adhering to radiation safety principles and legal standards in clinical setting;
3. Demonstrate advanced interpersonal and communication skills in diagnostic radiography and interprofessional healthcare, ensuring safe and respectful patient care with growing autonomy; and
4. Adapt knowledge and skills in diverse contexts, utilising appropriate radiographic approaches for varying patient presentations, recognising and responding to patient deterioration and ensuring appropriate management.

Graduate attributes

1. UC graduates are professional - take pride in their professional and personal integrity
2. UC graduates are global citizens - think globally about issues in their profession
2. UC graduates are global citizens - adopt an informed and balanced approach across professional and international boundaries
2. UC graduates are global citizens - communicate effectively in diverse cultural and social settings
3. UC graduates are lifelong learners - reflect on their own practice, updating and adapting their knowledge and skills for continual professional and academic development
3. UC graduates are lifelong learners - be self-aware
4. UC graduates are able to demonstrate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ways of knowing, being and doing - communicate and engage with Indigenous Australians in ethical and culturally respectful ways
4. UC graduates are able to demonstrate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ways of knowing, being and doing - apply their knowledge to working with Indigenous Australians in socially just ways

Prerequisites

have successfully completed 84 credits from 319JA including 11818 MRS Residency 1.

Corequisites

Enrolment in 319JA Bachelor of Medical Radiation Science (Medical Imaging).

Incompatible units

None.

Equivalent units

None.

Assumed knowledge

None.