Ch. 1 - Positioning Procedures I Study Guide

What are the devices that are placed between patient and IR to increase image quality?

Name the four types of image receptors?

If you forget your markers and the patient is already on the table to do you take the image anyways?

If you increase collimation what happens to the Radiation Field?

What are image receptors?

What is required from a patients ID?

What is SSD?

What is standard precautions?

Do we want the part far away or closer to the IR?

How do we protect IRs from a patient's body fluids?

What does the term ALARA stand for?

is the central ray perpendicular or parallel to the part?

What is a reason you might have to adjust how you explain and exam?

If there is no written minimum for SID for an exam what is the assumed distance?

What are the reasons for voluntary motion?

Is it a violation of the ARRT Code of Ethics to collimate larger than the required radiation field size?

On a man where is the gonad shielding placed?

Why do we question the patient to make sure procedure is consistent with history?

What does SID stand for?

What is the SID for MOST exams?

Should the IR be larger or smaller than the part?

Should the SSD be less than 12 inches ever?

Why should patients wear gowns when are getting a x-ray?

Is gonad shield currently recommended for abdominal/pelvic imaging?

Does shuttering make for proper collimation?

Who provides that directives for infection control?

What are some of the advantages that establishing a routine creates?

Should a radiographer ever discuss cause, diagnosis, or treatment of a patient?

What is the central beam of rays or central portion of the beam is termed the what?

How should you explain the procedure to the patients?

What are some reasons to only irradiate the anatomy of interest?

What is centered on the IR?

When should you perform hand hygiene?

Whare the the three general IR orientations?

The radiographer must evaluate each radiograph for .....

On a women where is the gonad shielding placed?

Should you ever use a stained or damaged IR even in a case of an emergency?

What is 72" used as an SID

Should you ever rush a patient?

What can help control voluntary motion?

What is the easiest method of preventing the spread of microorganism?

Who sets the Radiography Practice standard?

What are the standard of ethics?

Is the long axis of the IR typically parallel or perpendicular to the long axis of the part?

What is transmission precautions?

Why must we always observe our patient during the exam?

What falls under the practice standards?

What is the foundation of infection control practices?

What would be a involuntary motion?

_ is/are applied to all health professional's moral responsibility and the science of appropriate conduct towards other?

How to be best control involuntary motion?

Who created and maintain the standard of ethics that is applied to all radiologic technologists?

When does the Radiographer administer ionizing radiation?

What does ARRT stand for?

What can help with positioning and helps maintain part placement?

When should you wear gloves?

When should the tabletop be cleaned?

The Radiologic Technology is an umbrella term describing what?

When should the wall bucky be cleaned?

Increasing the SID has what affects on the image?

What are the three types of Motion?

What is OID?