RTR-RN

radiologic technologists are regulated in every state and are liscensed. they are not considered surgical techologists by all means. a radiologic technologist goes to school just like all other health care professions. you can't be a radiologic technologist without being liscensed. i currently work at 3 different hospitals in upstate ny and all of the interventional techs scrub in. we are taught this in school. no nurses scrub. the tech needs to scrub in because the assist the radiologist in using the c-arm and other fluoroscopy equipment. an rn can not do this. an rn has no training in radiation protection through school. i know this because i am working on my bsn. rad techs do not manipulate tissue, they assist the radiologist. rts help guide wires in and operate the sterile tray, along with taking all the pictures that are taken throught the procedure. i have never heard of an rn being accoutable for any actions done by a rad tech, how can they be? an rn and an rt are two very distinct jobs and you can't hold resposiblity over each other.

I'm an RT and when i was in school we learned that scrubbing was part of our jobs in the cath lab and also in interventional . in every hospital i've worked in the RTs scrubbed. The hospital i do PRN in is a teaching hospital so the residents scrub and the RT and RN both monitor the pt. The RT has other duties too. I don't see why an RN would not be able to scurb in. I don't know the laws in NY. i do know you need an RT in the room for the fluoro equipment and an RT can't give meds. RNs scrub in the OR so I don't see the difference.

I am not a ultrasound tech but I am an x-ray tech and I'm around the ultrasound girls and i do know that they are around blood. I did a rotation through ultrasound when i was in school for 2 wks and i remeber seeing blood and lots of other bodily fluids. Ultrasould techs do alot of scans for trauma pts also. All trauma pts come with blood somewhere. they also do scans on ob/gyn pts for miscarrages and those exams can be bloody. Pretty much any field in medicine encounters blood. You may want to look into clinical pathology/lab. You see blood but its in vials!! Good luck!

I may also be posting to late but I would definitly recomment rad tech over surg tech or health info. I am a rad tech and the responsibilities include pt.care, handing in films with a certain quality control for the radiologist to read them, radiation protection....There are also many different modalities of Radiology you can go into like CT, MRI, nuclear med, ultrasound, rad therapy which all pay even more. I'm now going the other way and want to become a nurse practitioner so you may even change you mind again!! Good luck

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