ARRT Exam 2019
Advance directive - ✅✅-Ex: living will, health care proxy , designated
surrogate
Bill of rights - ✅✅-Pts have the ability to review or access their health care
info
Practice standards - ✅✅-- Are set by the *ASRT*
- These standards *define the legal role* to the radiographer and identify
clinical , quality, and professional standard of practice
Tort - ✅✅-- Civil injustice , misconduct, or injury
- Can be intentional or unintentional (negligant)
- Ex: false imprisonment, assault, battery, defamation, invasion of privacy
Beneficence (Definition) - ✅✅-refers to decisions and actions made to bring
about good, ie, to benefit the patient
Nonmaleficence (definition) - ✅✅-"do no harm"-refers to the prevention of
harm to the patient
autonomy - ✅✅-refers to the right of every individual to act with personal
self-reliance.
invasion of privacy - ✅✅-revealing personal information about an individual
without his or her consent
amorphous - ✅✅-crystalline material lacking typical crystalline structure.
SNR (signal-to-noise ratio) increased - ✅✅-Better resolution is obtained with
,False Imprisonment - ✅✅-restraining an individual or restricting an
individual's freedom
Let the master answer - ✅✅-respondeat superior
a thing or matter settled by justice - ✅✅-res judicata
stare decisis - ✅✅-A Latin phrase meaning "let the decision stand." Most
cases reaching appellate courts are settled on this principle.
bit depth -✅✅ -Which of the following represents the image acquisition
contrast resolution?
Atelectasis - ✅✅-collapsed lung
Modulation transfer function or MTF - ✅✅ -describes the system's ability to
display signal contrast as a function of spatial resolution
CR -✅✅-Which of the following possesses the widest dynamic range?
Detective quantum efficiency or DQE - ✅✅-describes the overall efficiency
of converting x-ray signals into a useful image
✅✅-An emetic is used to
induce vomiting -
Charge-coupled device - ✅✅-Which of the following is used in digital
fluoroscopy, replacing the image intensifier's television camera tube?
mandatory and minimally acceptable standards. - ✅✅-The ARRT Rules of
Ethics are
Contributory Negligence - ✅✅-defines a circumstance in which both the
health care provider's and the patient's actions contributed to an injurious
outcome.
gross negligence - ✅✅ -an action committed with extreme reckless disregard
for the property or life of another person
corporate negligence - ✅✅-a doctrine under which hospitals may be held
liable in their own right
, ✅✅-HIPAA
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act -
American Registry of Radiologic Technologists - ✅✅-ARRT
Assault - ✅✅-Threaten to do harm
Battery - ✅✅-Carrying out the threat
Defamation - ✅✅-Action of damaging the good reputation of someone;
slander or libel
ARRT Standard of ethics - ✅✅-- Preamble
- Statement of purpose
- Code of ethics ( Aspirational)
-Rules of Ethics (Enforceable)
- Administrative procedures
Clothing - ✅✅-- Must be *removed* from the *uninjured* side first
- Must be *placed* on the *injured* side first
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