Performance Requirements: Vascular Interventional Radiography (VIR)

You must meet the following performance requirements to ensure patient safety and welfare during your time in our program and throughout your career.

Physical Requirements

  • Visual acuity (with corrective lenses if needed) to:
    • Identify cyanosis
    • Observe absence of respiratory movement in patients
    • See adverse skin reactions to treatments
    • Read very fine print on:
      • Medication containers
      • Physicians' orders
      • Monitors and equipment
    • Evaluate images for diagnostic quality
  • Hearing ability (with auditory aids if needed) to:
    • Understand the normal speaking voice without viewing the speaker’s face
    • Hear monitor alarms, emergency signals, call bells from patients, equipment timers and alarms
    • Take / hear blood pressure
  • Manual dexterity to:
    • Use sterile techniques
    • Prepare needles, syringes, and contrast media
    • Manipulate and assemble equipment for use
  • Physical ability to:
    • Stand for prolonged periods of time
    • Perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR)
    • Lift patients and objects of 35 pounds or more
    • Perform chest physio-therapy techniques using 2 hands
    • Push pieces of equipment from room to room
    • Maneuver in limited spaces

Communication Requirements

  • Communicate effectively in verbal and written form by:
    • Speaking clearly and succinctly when:
      • Explaining treatment procedures
      • Describing patient conditions
      • Implementing health techniques
    • Writing legibly and correctly in patients’ records for legal documentation
  • Function safely under stressful conditions with the ability to:
    • Adapt to the ever-changing environment inherent in clinical situations involving patient care
  • Have computer skills to:
    • Use a variety of software programs and the internet for research and course projects, including PowerPoint for presentations

 

Contact

Trinity River Campus East

Denise Glenn, BSRS R.T. (R)(CI)(VI) ARRT
Program Director

Call 817-515-2413

Email denise.glenn@tccd.edu

Trinity River Campus

Health Care Professions
Advising Resource Hub

Call 817-515-1484

Email TR.HealthCareAdvising@tccd.edu

Advising by Appointment

Fall & Spring Hours
Monday–Friday: 8 a.m.–5 p.m.
Summer Hours
Monday–Thursday: 7:30 a.m.–6 p.m.

Updated January 29, 2024