A well-timed strategy for therapeutic radiography

Cherry, Pam

doi:10.1053/radi.2001.0318

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“…13,14 More supportive evidence for this is that the roles of radiographers have expanded and changed continuously over the past century. 11,15 As an illustration, the way that the healthcare system has developed in the United Kingdom is by advancing clinical practices of those non-medical professionals. 16,17 This proves that greater engagement in advanced practice helps to improve patient care and management within the clinical oncology department.…”

Section: Regional Need For Role Development In Therapeutic Radiographymentioning

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“…7,34 However, the problem of acute shortages of key staff does not apply in the region at this moment. 15,35 Other possible drivers for change in Hong Kong, as suggested by interviews with radiographers include: sharing of workload among professionals to achieve the aim of "patient-centred" care; and since all qualified radiographers nowadays are degree holders, so it is possible to perform more advanced tasks within the department. In addition to this, results from questionnaires have indicated that except for the radiation oncologists, all other professionals agreed that patients are more open with radiographers when compared with oncologists, as they spend more time with radiographers.…”

Section: Perception Of Health Professionals On Role Development In Thmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The most probable reason for this may be that such role extension has been implemented too fast and radiographers did not have adequate time to practise themselves in order to achieve a certain level of advanced competencies. 11,15 Clinical skills are not only a matter of knowledge, but also a combination of knowledge and experience. 26,40 The lesson that can be learnt from this is that such developments must be driven by having timed and clear directives with guidance from experienced professionals who originally performed the tasks.…”

Section: Perception Of Health Professionals On Role Development In Thmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…29 Such variations may possibly arise because there is no crisis with regard to inadequate employment of nurses for the clinical oncology departments within the region, which is the opposite to the situation in the UK. 10,14,15 With respect to the views from medical physicists, results have shown that nearly half of the respondents did not agree to delegate the role of advanced treatment planning to radiographers. The main reason why local medical physicists would not like to delegate this role may be that this will directly minimise their roles within the department.…”

Section: Views On Extended Roles From Other Health Professionalsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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role development for therapeutic radiographers in the public hospitals in hong kong

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purpose: to identify factors determining the possibility of role development for therapeutic radiographers in hong kong public hospitals.methods: questionnaires were sent to all ranks of radiographers, clinical oncologists, medical physicists and nurses in four clinical oncology departments in local public hospitals. information was sought on role development and the nature of extended role tasks that should be undertaken by therapeutic radiographers. both open and closed questions were used to ascertain views. individual, semi-structured interviews were used to explore further opinions of therapeutic radiographers. for open-ended questions, data were analysed thematically by grouping similar opinions, while for closed questions data were analysed by descriptive statistics and independent-samples t-test/levene's test for homogeneity of variances.results and discussion: in total, 132 out of 285 questionnaires were returned (46.32%). subjects (77.10%) expressed views that role development in therapeutic radiography (rt) would have a positive impact on oncology services within the region. medical dominance was highlighted as the main barrier to role development (mean: 2.86; sd: 1.78). radiographers would tend not to extend their roles by taking up tasks that were performed by oncologists: for example, radiographers would not want to prescribe drugs to patients with radiation side-effects (57.58%), while 83.33% of oncologists also disagreed with this being performed by radiographers. other professionals (nurses and medical physicists) held a reserved view in delegating their tasks to radiographers, even after accredited clinical training.conclusion: role development in rt should relieve the increasing workload of the entire clinical oncology department. it also increases the status of therapeutic radiographers within the health care setting, which is beneficial for the whole profession. however, efforts must be made by all health professionals within the department to ensure that the greatest effectiveness can be achieved from such developments.

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Section: Regional Need For Role Development In Therapeutic Radiographymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Perception Of Health Professionals On Role Development In Thmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Perception Of Health Professionals On Role Development In Thmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Views On Extended Roles From Other Health Professionalsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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