NVCC RAD 105 Midterm Exam Questions with Correct Answers.docx

NVCC RAD 105 Midterm Exam Questions with Correct A Define primal stresses - Answer-fundamental stress (original stress) that create certain innate responses Name primal stresses - Answer-fight or flight obtaining food death methods of obtaining food - Answer-persuasion bartering searching producing psychological needs - Answer-emotionality objectivity physiological needs - Answer-nutrition sleep recreation exercise no stress psychological and physiologic needs that effect learning - Answer-*sound mind *diet - nutrition, eating good breakfast to avoid "mid-morning let down" *good sleep results in relax state *exercise lowers stress, improves mood and *cognitive functioning *preventative care *objectivity and rational thought - keep emotions in check allowing for logical thoughts Definition of conflict - Answer-the tension that results from disagreements between incompatible needs or drives Do you have the correct patient? - Answer-verification of patient information; match ID wristband with requisition; many hospitals require "two patient identifiers" How many patient identifiers should a student use to ascertain patients ID.? - Answer-2 AIDET - Answer-Acknowledge, Introduce, Duration, Explanation, Thank you Hippocrates - Answer-the father of modern medicine and medical ethics Medical terminology - Answer-serves as an aid in communication; consistent and uniform throughout the world; is efficient because it reduces entire phases to a single word word parts - Answer-word root, prefix, suffix, and combining form word root - Answer-the stem or main part of a word; usually in the middle of the word and central to its meaning prefix - Answer-comes at the beginning to the word; usually identifies some subdivision or part of the central meaning or changes the meaning suffix - Answer-comes at the end of the word modifies the central meaning as to what or who is interacting with it or what is happening to it usually indicates procedure, condition, disorder, disease or pertaining to rules for combining - Answer-the combining vowel is NOT used when the suffix begins with a vowel; the combining vowel IS used when the suffix begins with a consonant myocarditis - Answer-muscle heart inflammation my/o - Answer-muscle path - Answer-disease plasm - Answer-growth sarc - Answer-flesh, connective tissue stasis - Answer-control, stop viscer - Answer-internal organ symptoms - Answer-what the patient feels signs - Answer-what you actually see exam or procedure - Answer-to be performed/already performed medical chart or record - Answer-digital or paper patient history - Answer-from nurse upon transport, from other healthcare workers, from patient directly anatomic position - Answer-body is erect with arms at the side, with palms of the hands facing forward and feet side by side frontal or coronal - Answer-vertical field passing through a body from side to side; divides the body into anterior and posterior portions sagittal - Answer-vertical field passing through a body from front to back; divides the body into right and left sides mid-sagittal - Answer-equal left and right portions transverse - Answer-also called horizontal or axial; horizontal field dividing the body into upper and lower portions oblique - Answer-longitudinal or transverse plane that is at a slant or angle anter, anteri - Answer-before or front caud - Answer-toward the tail, down, downward cephal - Answer-up, upward, toward the head dist - Answer-away from the point of attachment dors - Answer-back infer, inferi - Answer-below later - Answer-side medi - Answer-middle poster, posteri - Answer-behind, back proxim - Answer-near the point of attachment super, superi - Answer-above ventr - Answer-belly anterior - Answer-pertaining to the front ventral - Answer-pertaining to the belly posterior - Answer-pertaining to the back or behind dorsal - Answer-pertaining to the back plantar - Answer-pertaining to the posterior aspect or sole of the foot dorsum - Answer-pertaining to the anterior aspect of the foot or posterior surface of the hand palmar - Answer-pertaining to the anterior or palm of the hand position - Answer-indicates the patient's general physical position or a specific body position projection - Answer-path or direction of the central ray projecting the image onto the image plate receptor view - Answer-describes the radiographic image as seen from the vantage or image receptor supine - Answer-lying on back, facing upward prone - Answer-lying on abdomen, facing down erect - Answer-an upright position by either standing or siting recumbent - Answer-lying down in any position superior - Answer-pertaining to above inferior - Answer-pertaining to below lateral - Answer-pertaining to the side medial - Answer-pertaining to the middle distal - Answer-pertaining to away from the point of attachment proximal - Answer-pertaining to near the point of attachment cephalad - Answer-toward the head caudad - Answer-toward the tail Abraham Maslow - Answer-noted psychologist; classified human needs based on a hierarchy hierarchy of needs - Answer-physiologic- food clothing shelter; safety and security; love and belonging; self-esteem respect; self actualization what are primal stresses - Answer-fundamental stress that create certain innate responses in humans 1st primal stress - Answer-fight or flight fight or flight - Answer-heartbeat accelerates blood pressure rises hormones rush to blood stream to send sugar to muscles and brain food digestion temporarily ceases more blood is available for energy stage fright - Answer-example of 1st primal stress 2nd Primal Stress - Answer-Obtaining food persuasion bartering searching producing 3rd Primal Stress - Answer-death the key concept is - Answer-service internal customers - Answer-referring to physicians, hospital employees and departments, department employees external customers - Answer-patients and their families, third party payers, the community your primary customer is the - Answer-patient certain skills and personal qualities needed to do the job expected of you - Answer- cheerful outgoing personality, clear communication, complete competency, thorough knowledge verbal communication - Answer-includes spoken and written words nonverbal communication - Answer-includes gestures, actions, facial expressions, eye contact; physical appearance; touch a powerful form to be used with care paralanguage - Answer-the sound of speech, rather than content; rate, volume, fluency, vocal patterns; feedback effective listening - Answer-listen to what your patient is saying; give them your complete attention; maintain eye contact; stay physically relaxed; show concern with facial expressions and vocalization; avoid interrupting objective data - Answer-perceptible to senses; able to be measured; signs that can be seen, heard, felt subjective data - Answer-patient feelings, pain level, attitude, opinion of observer, subject to interpretation moment of truth - Answer-direct interaction between the radiographer and the patient; moment when patient forms perceptions about service empathy - Answer-understanding and accepting the other person's position without necessarily agreeing or disagreeing what is HIPAA - Answer-Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act disease - Answer-disorder of bodily functions; the pattern of response to an injury mortality - Answer-rate of death from various conditions morbidity - Answer-occurrence of disease; a diseased state epidemic - Answer-outbreak or product of sudden rapid growth or development that affects many people at once pandemic - Answer-disease occurring over a wide geographic area and affecting an exceptionally high proportion of the population critical thinking steps - Answer-define the goal; note your observations; list possible options and their consequences; select the best available option hinderances to critical thinking - Answer-background beliefs; faulty reasoning; frozen mind set; emotional baggage; Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen - Answer-discovered x-ray in 1895 ethics - Answer-focus on moral questions and guidelines rather than answers and rules whistleblowing - Answer-ethically three questions need to be answered; how serious is the unethical or illegal behavior? what is the strength of the evidence? what are the normal channels for resolving the issue? have they been attempted? respondeat superior - Answer-"let the master answer"; the employer pays the victim for the torts committed by its employees res ipsa loquitor - Answer-defendant is responsible to prove innocence because "the thing that speaks for itself"; case built around evidence that an injury could not have occurred if there had been no negligence nonmaleficence - Answer-founded in ethical people "to do no harm"; does not require individual to perform any additional action but merely asks that the person not harm another beneficence - Answer-remove and prevent evil and harm; do and promote good; requires individual to perform some action either to prevent harm or to do good; may require health professional to take a stand against another or to intercede for the patient's well-being justice - Answer-requires that individuals be treated according to what is due, fair and/or vowed; "equal distribution of benefits" or impartiality civil assault - Answer-can be filed if patient is apprehensive of injury by the imprudent conduct of the radiographer civil battery - Answer-actual bodily harm has been inflicted on a patient as a result of intentional physical contact between a health care provider and a patient negligence - Answer-unintentional misconduct; breach is a failure to fulfill expected standards of care