Solutions New Verified Update
Advance directive - Answer- ✔✔Ex: living will, health care proxy , designated surrogate
Bill of rights - Answer- ✔✔Pts have the ability to review or access their health care info
Practice standards - Answer- ✔✔- Are set by the *ASRT*
- These standards *define the legal role* to the radiographer and identify clinical ,
quality, and professional standard of practice
Tort - Answer- ✔✔- Civil injustice , misconduct, or injury
- Can be intentional or unintentional (negligant)
- Ex: false imprisonment, assault, battery, defamation, invasion of privacy
Assault - Answer- ✔✔Threaten to do harm
Battery - Answer- ✔✔Carrying out the threat
Defamation - Answer- ✔✔Action of damaging the good reputation of someone; slander
or libel
Slander - Answer- ✔✔Spoken defamation
Libel - Answer- ✔✔Written defamation
Negligent / Malpractice / Unintentional tort - Answer- ✔✔-Wrong pt
-Falls
-Wrong part
- Preg pt
- Delay in diagnosis
ARRT Standard of ethics - Answer- ✔✔- Preamble
- Statement of purpose
,- Code of ethics ( Aspirational)
-Rules of Ethics (Enforceable)
- Administrative procedures
Communication Skills - Answer- ✔✔- Observational
- Listening
- Speaking
- Writing
Clothing - Answer- ✔✔- Must be *removed* from the *uninjured* side first
- Must be *placed* on the *injured* side first
IV - Answer- ✔✔Should be 18- 24 in above the level of the vein
Vital signs - Answer- ✔✔-Temperature : 98.6
-Respiratory rate : 12 - 20 breaths
-Pulse rate : 60 - 80 bpm
-Blood pressure : 90/120 (systolic) ........... 60/80 (diastolic)
Inadequate 02 supply - Answer- ✔✔- Dysnpnea
- Cysnosis
- Diaphorosis
- Distention of neck veins
- Dilated nostrils
- Retraction of intercostal spaces
Diaphoresis - Answer- ✔✔Sweating
Anaphalatic shock - Answer- ✔✔- Dyspnea
- dysphagia
, - hypotension
- cardiopulmonary arrest
Epistaxis - Answer- ✔✔Nosebleeds
TIA - Answer- ✔✔- Transient ischemic attack
- *Temporary* blindness in 1 eye, dysphasia, aphasia, hemispheres
CVA - Answer- ✔✔- Cerebrovascular accident *AKA* Stroke
- Sudden loss of consciousness, one sided paralysis, thrombus formation, cool, sweaty
skin
Subjective - Answer- ✔✔What the pt feels
Objective - Answer- ✔✔What the radiographer sees; lump, cough, elevated bp
Direct Contact - Answer- ✔✔Involves touch
Indirect Contact - Answer- ✔✔- Airborne
- Formites
- Vector
Formite - Answer- ✔✔Objects that carry infection, such as clothes, IV poles, doorknobs
Vector - Answer- ✔✔Insect or animal carrier of infectious organisms such as ticks or
mosquito
Vehicle transmission - Answer- ✔✔Anything that transmits infectious microorganism,
blood, water, food, drugs, etc
Epidemiologic - Answer- ✔✔Relating to the branch of medicine which deals with the
incidence, distribution, and control of diseases
Airborne Precaution - Answer- ✔✔- TB
- Varicella (chickenpox)
- Rubeola (measles)