Patient Care Test Chp 1-6, 14 Flashcards
Name two major professional organizations in radiologic technology.
ASRT
ISSRT
What is the purpose of the practice standards in radiologic technology?
Practice standards - your job description, your scope of practice.
What document represents the application of moral principle and moral values for radiologic technology?
Standard of ethics.
What is nonmaleficence?
Duty to refrain from inflicting harm
What is autonomy?
The right to make decisions concerning ones own life.
What is truthfulness?
Honesty to patients.
What is justice?
Equal treatment and equal benefits.
What is double effect?
The intent is good although a bad result may be foreseen.
The radiographer who mistakenly administers an incorrect drug to a patient may be guilty of?
Tort.
Explain the documentation for which you as a radiographer will be accountable in your department when you participate in a procedure.
Correct patient Exam Time Patient history Flouro time Technique Markers/annotation Medication- kind and amount.
Professional ethic may be defined as?
A set of principles that govern a course of action.
Give an example of privileged (confidential) information.
You assist with a diagnostic study and a large adherent mass is discovered in the colon.
You are approached by a colleague who asks you to become a member of the local chapter of your professional organization. What do you do?
You join at once because you feel that it is an obligation to be a member of your professional organization.
Information about a patient’s condition of prognosis?
Must always remain confidential.
If you are unable to solve a professional ethical dilemma, you must present the problem to?
The ethics committee of the institution for which you work.
As a radiographer, you are assigned to diagnostic imaging procedure for which you have had no education. You best course of action is?
Explain to your superior that you have never worked with this procedure and feel competent to preform it.
If you offer your services at the scene of an accident you are protected from litigation by the Good Samaritan Law?
True.
If a patient request to take his/her radiographic images to another institution for consultation, you must remember?
The patient must present a signed request before the records can be released.
An unconscious child is brought to the emergency suite for a diagnostic radiograph. There is no parent or guardian with them. You will proceed with the procedure and will be functioning under the rule of implied consent?
True.
List 3 area in which the radiographer may infringe upon patient rights.
Confidentiality
Informed consent
Physical consent.
List 3 responsibilities of the patient.
Provide accurate and complete heath history.
Keep appointments
Fulfill financial obligations.
What is Medicare?
Covers the acute hospital care and home heath care of persons who are 65 years of age and older.
What is Medicaid?
Has primary care physicians who act as gatekeepers for patient care.
A patient is waiting alone on a gurney in a corridor. Everyone rushes by without offering explanations or communicating.
Love and belonging.
For this imaging procedure, no food was allowed after dinner. The examination is at 8am. It’s 11am and patient is still waiting on care.
Physiologic need.
A middle aged patient who is having gastrointestinal (GI) series has an involuntary evacuation of barium on the table.
Self esteem need.
A young mother is studying music in her leisure time.
Self actualization need.
A child is taken from their parents into the imaging department. The parents are told to wait outside.
Safety and security need.
Define critical thinking and list and define the modes of thinking.
Critical thinking- careful consideration of an issue that guides behavior.
Name the lower and higher levels of critical thinking.
Lower - recall and habit
Higher- inquiry, creativity.
What is recall?
Ability to bring to mind a large body of facts quickly.
What is habit?
Becoming accustom to perform a skill without deep thought because of repetition.
What is inquiry?
The process information thoughtfully and be willing and able to recognize, explore and challenge as sumptuous to make sense of complex ideas.
What is creativity?
Ability to conceive of alternative methods of performing tasks or accomplish. Creativity must always work within the standards of safe and ethical practice; demands accountability.
An elderly woman loses her spouse of 40 years. Shortly after his death, she becomes ill and requires a surgical procedure. One might consider that her illness might be related to?
Stress.
Learning the profession of radiologic technology requires ?, ? and ? Skills.
Cognitive, affective, and psychomotor.
What does cognitive mean?
Learning.
What does affective mean?
Feelings, attitude.
What does psychomotor mean?
Doing?
A return demonstration of an imaging examination by the radiologic technology student requires?
Psychomotor skills.
A radiologic technologist who had been working in their profession for a number of years is assigned to preform an imaging exam that they have preformed many of times. The mode of thinking for this is?
Habit.
How a patient feels about their health care experience is strongly related to?
The communication skills of the health care worker caring for them.
List the requirements of the problem solving process.
Data collection/analysis
Planning
Implementation
Evaluation.
What does culture mean?
A set of beliefs and values common to a particular group of people.
What does ethnicity mean?
A common history of origin.
When assessing a patient, the aspects of this assessment must include?
Culture
economic background
Physiological status
Physiological background
The process of grieving, though painful and difficult, is normal and cannot be avoided in the case of a significant personal loss. (T or F)
True.
List the skills required of a successful communicator.
Listener
Observing
Speaking
Writing.
