Ethics

Similar to all other departments, Health Care department and Medical field is one main place which has a strictly designed set of norms and ethical codes. Medical field and ethics always travel on a same streamline. These codes are imposed on every single professional member of this discipline. One must understand that the oath that every medical field employee takes during the time of joining is different from the ethics of Health Care system. Medical professionals always have strict codes to be followed. These codes of ethics are the judging scale for each of the individual employees and they are strictly expected to abide by these codes. Even public people can get to know these norms and they are entitled with the questioning authority to the employees. The public can raise their issues to the medical administration if they feel that any patient is not treated up to the requirement, or being medically treated unnecessarily.

The American Medical Association takes care of these principles and codes that are drafted for the Health Care department. This association will analyse the compliant raised by the public, and in case it is proved that the x-ray technician has flaws on him or her, then the association will take actions even to a higher stage of cancelling the license. One of the main reasons for drafting such ethics in the medical field is to ensure the goodness and wellbeing of the patients. There is a special team of investigation who checks the codes year after year and makes alterations and additions to the existing codes, if necessary.

Becoming an x-ray technician is not a simple task to do. As all other disciplines in the medical field, even x-ray technicians have their own set of codes and ethics to be strictly adhered. The x-ray technicians, broadly termed as the Radiologic technologists involve in imaging examinations by producing radiographs, which are commonly called the x-ray films. They involve in the complete diagnosis of a person to identify the medical problems that are resting in their body. The task of the x-ray technician not just start and end up with taking x-rays, but they are expected to mentally convince the patient by making them understand the essentiality of taking x-rays.

Off late, the x-ray technicians are also expected to be well versed in handling computer systems which are required for the advanced scanning technologies. CT scan, which is the Computed Tomography scan, involves the key person, the x-ray technician, to handle computer devices to understand and interpret the cross-sectional x-ray results in the scan report.

Being a certified member of a licensed training centre is one of the essential ethics to be a x-ray technician in famous hospitals and scanning centres. The qualified members are first expected to register themselves in an organisation that exclusively operates for registering these graduates. One such example is the American Registry of Radiologic Technologists (ARRT) organisation. These organisations solely take care of the licensing tasks of the registered graduates. This registration is a must for getting the license for practising as an x-ray technician. There is another organisation which is the States health board, who ensure that the person is a graduated licensed member before giving them a placement in any of the standard hospitals of the city. The codes of the Public Health Educators committee are more or less similar to the x-ray technicians, and they too are expected to abide by the same.

Though there is a high demand for qualified x-ray technicians, one must be adhering to the norms of the health care system to prolong their career as x-ray technician.