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| purposeful, self regulatory judgement resulting in interpretation, analysis, evaluation, and interference |
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| system or code of conduct and morals advocated by a particular individual or group |
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| a body of rules of action or conduct prescribed by controlling authority that have binding legal force |
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| an unintentional tort resulting from actions not intended to do harm |
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| system for identifying, analyzing, and evaluating risks and selecting the most advantageous method for treating them |
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| quality or standard that is desirable or worthy of esteem in itself |
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| lawsuits involving imaging professionals are most frequently brought under when type of law |
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| how does negligence occur |
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| there is a duty, a breach of that duty, injury, and causation |
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| the tort falls under which division of the law |
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| a valuable risk management tool that allows the hospital to immediately investigate the circumstances of the incident and institute corrective action to prevent similar future occurrences |
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| what are the types of torts |
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| assault, battery, false imprisonment, defamation, negligence, lack of informed consent, and breach of patient confidentiality |
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| a predetermined choice made to inform others of the ways in which the patient wishes to be treated while incompetent |
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| a deliberate act wherein one person threatens to harm another without consent and the victim feels the attacker has the ability to carry out the threat |
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| the concept that patients are to be treated as individuals and informed about procedures to facilitate appropriate decisions |
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| touching to which the victim has not consented |
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| the duty owed by healthcare providers to protect the privacy of patient information |
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| the making of a false statement to a third party that is harmful to another's reputation |
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| the written assent of a patient to receive a proposed treatment |
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| patients have the right know |
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| if they are being treated by students, residents, or other trainees |
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| examples of unintentional torts |
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| negligence, failure to obtain informed consent, breach of patient confidentiality (medical malpractice) |
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| rules for using restraints |
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| necessary, least intrusive, regular reassessment, discontinued ASAPracticable |
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| patients have the right to refuse treatment even |
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| medical care for people over 65 |
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| list the 5 stages of grief in order |
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| denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance |
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| when a student performs a repeat radiograph |
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| when an educational program deny's a students rights what must be done |
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| a formal notice of a hearing where the student may answer charges |
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| imaging professionals must be covered by insurers liability policy for |
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| defense and indemnification |
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| what is the only for of life-sustaining treatment that is provided routinely without the consent of the patient and is generally initiated without an order of a physician |
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| should not be relied upon to act as interpreters |
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| hostile work environment sexual harassment |
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| harassment unreasonably interferes with the employees work performance or creates an intimidating, hostile, or offensive work environment |
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| quid pro quo sexual harassment |
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| initial or continued employment or advancement depends on sexual conduct |
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| quality improvement programs seek to |
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| anticipate problems and improve the environment before problems arise |
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| what does the radiologist assistant do |
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| leading role in patient management and assessment by determining if a patient is appropriately prepped for a procedure, obtaining patient consent prior to an exam, and answering patient questions |
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| when a patient verbally, or by action, agree to have a procedure performed |
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| how to fix a mistake in a chart |
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| line, correction, sign, date, explain |
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| how long are medical images stored |
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| examples of intentional torts |
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| assault, battery, false imprisonment, and defamation |
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| what color ink do you use when writing in a patients chart |
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| when was x-rays discovered |
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| what are the three aspects of physical science that helped pave the way for the discovery of x-rays |
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| electricity, vacuums, and image recording materials |
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| what are the three aspects of evaluation of performance |
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| affective, psychomotor, and cognitive |
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| how many CE units to rad techs need every 2 years |
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| upper respiratory infection |
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| misrepresentation of the size or shape of the object as recorded in the radiographic image |
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| device that is place between the patient and the image receptor that absorbs scatter radiation that is exiting the body |
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| the area of the anode in the x-ray tube from which x-rays emanate |
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| cross-sectional views of the body to be made without the use of ionizing radiation |
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| radioactive materials are used |
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| what type of contrast would you use if a perforated stomach of intestine is suspected |
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| bone studies require at least how many views |
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| 2, at right angles of each other |
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| esophagram studies are used to visualize what |
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| tumors, constrictions, and spasms |
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| why are small bowel follow through's performed |
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| the evaluate an obstruction |
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| intravenous urography studies help to visualize what |
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| stones in the urinary system and evaluate kidney function |
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| the most common joints involved in an arthrogram |
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| at what site to do you inject for a myelogram |
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| what percent of the image on the film is made by light of the intesifying screens while the remaining percentage of the image is made directly by the x-rays |
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| what is the force and the factor that determines the penetrating ability of the radiation |
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| what happens to the amount of radiation the patient receives as mAs increases |
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| what are the densities in the body from least dense to most dense |
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| how does thickness of a body part affect radiation absorption |
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| the thicker the body part, the greater the radiation absorption |
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| how is milliamperage related to the amount of radiation produced |
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| the greater the milliamperage, the greater the amount of radiation produced |
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| what happens to radiation dose at twice the distance |
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| radiation is reduced by 1/4th |
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| what percentage of scatter or secondary radiation does a grid absorb |
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| how can magnification be reduced |
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| what is the greatest factor encountered that affects detail in medical imaging |
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| the law of Bergonie and Tribondeau |
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| radiation exposure is more critical to infant patients |
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| what can cause a person to be placed in protective isolation |
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| if there is any question that an item is not sterile |
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| then that item is considered to be unsteril |
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| negligence can be defined as |
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| a breach or a failure to fulfill and expected standard of care |
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| what is the federal agency that is concerned with safety in the workplace, primarily that surrounding radiation-emitting materials and equipment |
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| what are the 3 revenue-producing departments in the hospital |
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| radiology, pharmacy, laboratory |
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| what percent of radiography procedures are chest x-rays |
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| what is the major cause of excessive radiation |
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| repeat exposure due to positioning errors |
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| cosmic, terrestrial, radionuclide deposits |
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| fallout from nuclear weapons testing, medical and dental x-ray exposures |
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| the unit that measures biologic effects of x, alpha, beta, and gamma radiation in humans |
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| what is the limit of exposure to workers every year |
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| what is the total permissible dose to a pregnant women |
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| when photon interactions occur with low energy photons |
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| when are cells most sensitive to ionizing radiation |
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| when they are rapidly dividing |
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| what is the most radiosensitive cell |
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| how does scattered radiation affect the film |
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| it impairs the diagnostic quality |
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| how much can exposure be reduced when the testes have been shielded |
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| what is the minimum amount of lead in shielding devices |
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| what is the minimum total filtration required for the primary x-ray beam |
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| how long should the cord on a mobile radiographic machine be |
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