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Introduction to Sonography and Patient Care Final S1
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Introduction to Sonography andPatient Care Final S1
3 mechanisms of anxiety - -cognitive, physical, behaviour
-HIPPA Act - -health insurance portability and accountability act= patient
confidentiality- law that is aimed at protecting the patients rights and
reducing waste, fraud, and abuse in the healthcare industry
-Hippocratic Oath concepts (5) - -- place the patient's interest before your
own
- protect the patients from harm or injustice
- treat all patients equally
- respect patients rights
- protect patients confidentiality
-Daily Tasks for the Sonography Student (6) - -- assist in completing paper
work
- assist in patient care and transporting them
- clean stretchers, chairs, and ultrasound machines, transducers
-inform sonographer about needed supplies
- replace linens
- review protocols
-Clinical Orientation Tasks (7) - -- obtain a map of the department
- locate emergency crash carts
- make copies of protocols
- familiarize self with machines and equipemtn
- locate supplies
- locate MSDS and poliesies and procedure manuals
- obtain lost of emergency codes
-CT - -Computed Tomography
-What modality provides high resolution sectional viewing of the body in
multiple planes? - -Computed Tomography
-what modality uses an x-ray tube that rotates around the patient? - -CT
-What modality differentiates between normal/abnormal uptake of a radio-
pharmaceutical created hot/cold spots? - -Nuclear Medicine
-What modality combines 2 different screenings and what do they use? - -
PET uses Nuclear medicine and CT techniques
, -what does PET stand for? - -Positronic Emision Tomography
-When do women start getting mammograms? - -Patients over 40 and with
a palpable lump or nodule
-What 2 projections does mammography use? - -cranialcaudal and
mediolateral
-What does MRI stand for? - -Magnetic Resonance Imaging
-How does MRI create their images? - -Uses powerful magniic field, radio
waves and a computer system to create sectional images
-What does clinical history include? (5) - -- signs and symptoms
- pertinent illnesses
- past surgeries
- lab findings
- results of other diagnostic tests
-Critical Thinking Steps (5) - -- Observation
- Hypothesis
- Data collection
- Data Analysis
- Conclusion
-Qualities of Critical thinkers (6) - -- ask vital questions and recognizes
problems
- gathers and assesses relevant info
- comes to well-reasoned conclusions and solutions
- tests conclutions and solutions against relevant criteria
- thinks with an open mind
- communicates effectly with others in order to figure out solutions to
complex problems
-What is typewatching? - -theory of tools to identify one's tendency towards
a certain personality type procress
-Components of Myers-Briggs personality typing (7) - -- intra/extroversion
- sensing
- intuition
- thinking
- feeling
- judging
- perceiving
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