SCOPE OF PRACTICE
Unless licensed as a physician, applicants for registration shall agree to perform the
duties of a radiologic technologist only as directed by a duly qualified physician and
under no circumstances to give out oral or written diagnoses or work independently,
whether in a private office or an institutional department. `Duly qualified physician'
refers to physician who has demonstrated education and training in the use and
American Registry of Radiologic Technologists (ARRT) Rules and Regulations,
August 1987
ADMINISTRATIVE DUTIES TAKE SOLDIER BY SURPRISE
Depending upon your assignment, you could be given the additional duty of supply
clerk or any other administrative function, early in your career. Consider the situation
of a Specialist (SPC) or a Private First Class (PFC) assigned as a radiographer to a
clinic in Germany. The clinic in question oversees 10 other clinics, each having a
single radiographer. The newly assigned SPC or PFC is designated the role of
supply clerk. As such, he or she ends up having total responsibility for ordering
patient care supplies within the x-ray department for all 11 clinics--quite a challenge
for a relatively inexperienced x-ray technologist. Unquestionably, it is never too soon
to become aware of the administrative component of your job.
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