Week 2 Flashcards
The first stage of the greiving process
Denial and Isolation
All of the following choices would generally require critical analysis thinking except:
- checking in for work and reviewing the day’s schedule.
- working in surgery with a portable C-arm that is malfunctioning.
- preparing to perform a radiographic examination on a hearing-impaired patient.
- working in the emergency department with a trauma patient.
checking in for work and reviewing the day’s schedule
The transfer of knowledge gained in the laboratory or classroom setting is best demonstrated:
in an actual clinical setting on patients.
In your experiences as a student radiographer, you will encounter a variety of technologists, each with his or her own methods for performing procedures. Most will be quite good, but unfortunately some will be poor. As a student, you have a responsibility to recognize these various behaviors and assess their professional correctness. A firm reference point for determining the appropriate behavior for technologist behavior would be:
referencing the ASRT Practice Standards and ARRT Code of Ethics.
While working as a radiographer, you design a unique receptor holder to use during portable procedures that clearly reduces the exposure of others, by lessening the need to hold patients or image receptors. The development of this imaging device shows that you are functioning at what level of learning?
Synthesis
Which of the following situations would require critical analysis thinking skills?
- A patient asking for directions to the restroom
- A physician asking you to call his office to connect with his/her nurse
- Improvising the angulation of the X-ray tube to compensate for a patient condition
- Your supervisor asking you to develop a new quality control plan
- Repositioning a patient after assessing the patient’s previous images
- Providing a gown to a patient with instructions on putting it on correctly
- Modifying exposure factors after reviewing the patient’s history
3, 4, 5, and 7 only
The professional organization that is responsible for the development and publication of minimum educational guidelines, outlining entry-level knowledge and skill levels is the:
American Society of Radiologic Technologists (ASRT).
As students gain competency in medical imaging procedures, three phases in the clinical setting are planned by clinical faculty. These three phases in the correct learning sequence are:
observation, assistance, and performance.
As a student radiographer, you have received a requisition to perform a procedure that requires indirect supervision. In completing the examination, you mistakenly mislabel the image with regard to the left and right sides of the patient. Department policy requires a repeat image. In doing so, you must be aware that:
a qualified practitioner must review your repeat procedures and directly supervise your work.
All of the following are true of the TeamSTEPPS approach to patient care except:
it is an evidence-based teamwork strategy.
it encourages individuals to perform independently with little or no need for support.
situation monitoring is essential to the process of TeamSTEPPS.
it consists of five (5) key principles
it encourages individuals to perform independently with little or no need for support.
At a specific time in the student-patient interaction, the student may be permitted to position a patient and provide for their general care in order to perform the procedure. At this specific point in the student’s clinical experience, they are considered to be:
performing at the assistance level of clinical progression.
Another term for human diversity is:
cultural diversity.
To perform effectively and compassionately as a radiologic sciences professional, it is important to understand the areas of human cultural diversity. These may include:
- social organizations.
- phobias.
- symbolism.
- space.
- time.
- communication.
1, 4, 5, and 6 only.
A social organization that seeks to understand and accept peoples from diverse backgrounds through policies and procedures, communication media, activities, and so on, in an effort to achieve a positive cross-cultural environment, is seeking to achieve:
cultural competency.
Which of the following would not reflect a human diversity characteristic?
Occupation
Valuable traits of the U.S. mainstream culture include which of the following?
- Strong work ethic
- Efficiency
- Travel and mobility
- Tolerance and patience
- Individualism
- Capitalism
- Competition
1, 2, 5, and 7 only
All of the following are nonverbal communication characteristics except:
volume of voice.
body language.
amount of eye contact.
professional appearance.
volume of voice.
A patient who is near death will likely exhibit what signs of impending death?
- Loss of bowel functions and control
- State of unconsciousness
- Unusual high level of alertness and response to conversation
- A condition of “wasting away” (cachexia)
1, 2, and 4 only
According to Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, our first and most basic need is:
shelter, nourishment, and water.
Clearly understanding your emotions when handling patients and their families is referred to as:
emotional intelligence.
Professional medical imaging personnel must possess many desirable traits and skills. To succeed in patient interactions as a part of performing examinations, it is important that the radiographer:
avoid touching patients for fear of offending them.
When to use appropriate humor during Radiographic procedures
Using humor to relax and open conversation is acceptable, but radiologic and imaging sciences professionals must be extremely careful to avoid cultural slurs and references to age, gender, diseases, and the abilities of other health professionals.
Advance Directive
A legal document prepared by a living, competent adult to guide the health care team if the individual should become unable to make decisions regarding their medical care; may also be called a living will or durable power of attorney for health care. Sometimes a durable power of attorney is given to another person because a person simply does not want to make any of these decisions themself.
Grieving stages
Denial and Isolation
Anger
Bargaining
Depression
Acceptance
