Intravenous Access Competency: A Newly Injected Role for the Radiologic Technologist |
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| Authors: | Margaret Delaney Barbara DeVoe M. Isabel Friedman Robert Kerner Jennifer Saleta |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Radiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, One Deaconess Road, Boston, MA 02215;2. Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA;1. University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee;2. Baptist Memorial Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee;3. St. Jude Children''s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee;1. Department of Radiology, Xuanwu Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100053, China;2. Department of Cardiology, Chaoyang Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100020, China;3. Department of Neurology Baotou Central Hospital, Inner Mongolia, Baotou 014040, China;4. Department of Radiology, Baotou Central Hospital, Inner Mongolia, Baotou 014040, China;5. CT BM Clinic Marketing, Siemens Healthcare, Beijing 100102, China;1. Department of Surgery, University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Houston, Texas;2. Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, University of Texas Medical School, Houston, Texas |
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| Abstract: | In 2007, New York State Public Health Law was revised to expand the scope of practice of radiologic technologists (RTs) to allow venipuncture, the administration of radiologic pharmaceuticals and contrast media, and the performance of venipuncture for that purpose. This article describes the development and implementation of a program to educate RTs in venipuncture and cardiopulmonary resuscitation in a large health system that included several tertiary hospitals community hospitals and an outpatient radiology center. |
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