Program Effectiveness Outcomes

Mission

The radiation therapy program will graduate competent, entry-level radiation therapists to become members of a multidisciplinary health care team, providing empathic care and therapeutic treatment to those who have been diagnosed with cancer.

Program Learning Outcomes

Graduates/students of the radiation therapy program will be clinically competent.

  • Students will perform clinical radiation therapy general patient care procedures according to competency standards.
  • Students will perform clinical radiation therapy procedures according to competency standards.
  • Students will design a portfolio showing clinical competency.

Graduates/students of the radiation therapy program will communicate effectively.

  • Student will demonstrate effective communication through an oral presentation
  • Students will be able to integrate communication skills learned in RTT 394 with RTT 310 through a service learning project.
  • Students will communicate effectively through written communication.

Graduates/students of the radiation therapy program will be able to problem solve and critically think.

  • Students will analyze a treatment or simulation procedure by creating a video or PowerPoint.
  • Students will interpret correct patient shifts in positioning for treatment.
  • Students will be able to interpret appropriate dosimetry calculation for specific treatment.

Graduates/students of the radiation therapy program will demonstrate professionalism.

  • Students will be able to demonstrate professional time management.
  • Students will interpret appropriate ethical behavior presented in case studies.
  • Students will appropriately identify ethical violation in clinic related to ARRT ethics rule

God's Blessings

Love the Lord you God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.  This is the first and greatest commandment.  And the second is like it:  Love your neighbor as yourself.

Matthew 22:37-38