Career Move: X-ray Tech, your personal job experience?

Question

My boyfriend is heavily considering going to school for radiography to be an X-ray tech. If you have experience in the field, I'm really interested in hearing what your annual salary is, your average hours put in a week, and how rough you considered the schooling involved!

Thank You!

Answer 1

I graduated a year and a half ago. I work in an outpatient medical center and make $42,000 working 40 hours per week. School was pretty tough and very stressful, but very do-able.

A radiologic technologist works primarily in hospitals, but also in clinics, diagnostic imaging centers, medical laboratories and private industry.
-Use x-ray equipment to produce images of the tissue, organs, bones and vessels of the body to diagnose medical problems.
-May specialize in a specific imaging technique, such as bone densitometry, cardiovascular-interventional technology, computed tomography, mammography, magnetic resonance imaging, nuclear medicine, sonography or general radiography.
-Prepare patients and explain procedures.
-Position equipment at the appropriate distance and angle from the patient in order to produce the appropriate images.

Education/Training
Formal training programs range from two to four years, leading to a certificate, associate’s or bachelor’s degree.
Classroom and clinical instruction in anatomy and physiology, patient care procedures, radiation physics, radiation protection, principles of imaging, medical terminology, positioning of patients, medical ethics, radiobiology and pathology. Certification by the American Registry of Radiologic Technologists (ARRT) is required.

Salary (THIS VARIES A LOT)
$30,000 - $43,000

More Information
American Society of Radiologic Technologists
15000 Central Avenue SE
Albuquerque, NM 87123-3917
505-298-4500 or 800-444-2778
http://asrt.org
Joint Review Committee on Education in Radiologic Technology
20 N. Wacker Drive, Suite 2850
Chicago, IL 60606-2901
http://jrcert.org
American Registry of Radiologic Technologists
1255 Northland Drive
St. Paul, Minnesota 55120-1155 USA
http://arrt.org

Answer 2

before everything of the quantity of radiation getting used is trivial and anyplace there is an xray equipment there would additionally be needful protective and so on. so as that even long term exposure isn't a danger. on the occupation itself, besides the undeniable fact that, many definitely everyone seems to be speeding into it and quickly the roles would be thoroughly saturated. wellbeing care is clever appropriate now, yet no longer unavoidably this. What some actual therapist?