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ASRT Magnetic Resonance White Paper to Set Workplace
Safety Guidelines for MR Technologists
The ASRT assembled a the mission of the ASRT to
workgroup of MR technologists advance and elevate the medical
to analyze the results and draft imaging and radiation therapy
the framework for a white paper. profession and to enhance the
This has been an ongoing process quality and safety of patient care.
and will take several months to
Amanda Garlock has been a
complete. I’m incredibly proud of
registered technologist for 11
the white paper workgroup and
all the MR technologists who years. She graduated from Pima
completed the survey. It’s exciting Medical Institute in 2007 with her
to be part of a group of dedicated A.A.S. in Radiologic Sciences. She
spent the next few years working
professionals who are
By ASRT President Amanda
painstakingly examining data, in a busy clinic while working on
Garlock, M.S., R.T.(R)(MR)
identifying trends and establishing her bachelor degree and then
As a practicing Magnetic best practices that will enhance finally earning her masters in
healthcare administration from
Resonance (MR) technologist, I the profession.
Colorado State University. She
embrace best practices to make
When the white paper is was elected to the ASRT Board in
sure I am current with patient
completed, MR technologists can 2012 as the Vice-Speaker of the
safety measures and protocols.
look forward to a document that House and since then has held the
Therefore, when I became
provides workplace safety positions of Speaker, Vice-
President of the American Society
guidelines, facility workflow President, President-Elect and
of Radiologic Technologists
processes, patient safety President. In June 2018 she begins
(ASRT) in June 2017, I launched an
protocols and ongoing training her final year on the board,
initiative to update MR best
tactics. It will be an industry-wide serving as the Chairman. Her
practices.
tool to create positive changes involvement with her professional
To gather data, the ASRT for the MR community and association is supported by
conducted a comprehensive patient safety. We predict the Whidbey Health, where she
survey of MR technologists in the white paper will be available by currently is an imaging lead
summer of 2017 to gauge their summer 2018. Upon completion, technologist. She also finds time
insights on issues ranging from it will be located on the ASRT to teach part-time as an online
facility safety measures and self- Web site, www.asrt.org, at no instructor for Pima Medical
reporting safety incidents to cost for technologists, facility Institute's Advanced Track
dedicated safety zones in the MR managers, and students. It is our Radiography Program.
suite and initial MR training. The responsibility to provide
response was encouraging with registered technologists with the
more than 2,600 MR technologists tools, services, and support they
embracing the exercise and need to succeed. The MR safety
providing valuable information. white paper will help us achieve
