Dental Nursing 5234
Unit 307 Written Questions
Q1) How you might support patients during the taking of radiographs?
There are a few ways how we can support patient during taking radiographs:
- Reassure them (same patients can be very nervous)
- If the patient attends with child or escort, nurse has responsibility to move everybody, except patient, out of the room during taking radiographs
- Dental nurse may back up dentist when he is explaining what is going to happen
- Assure patient of radiation levels, if question is risen
- Dental nurse may with dentist permission answering some of the patient questions
- Nurse should make sure patient is comfortable
- Nurse may assist patient during removing jewellery by keeping them safe on the site …show more content…
It contains all necessary chemicals (like developer and fixer) and water tanks. The film is moving through the machine on conveyor belt style rollers. All this must be covered under light-tight lid to prevent light damage to the film. When processing films, nurse will first put fresh gloves on, passed hands through the hand ports, dropped lead foil and black paper at the base of the tank and placed film into the entrance of the rollers. Once the film is processed and dried it will reappear at the delivery port. In the same way as with manual processing, care has to be taken when handling film not to bend it and hold the film by its side to prevent …show more content…
The quality assurance program is important for a couple of reasons: reduce unnecessary radiation exposure to patients and staff, decrease operating costs, prevent wrong diagnosis because of poor quality of the radiographs and overall improve quality of dental images.
For this reason, simple quality assurance system was developed that aims following:
- identify problems by scoring process films
- develop solutions
- limit the number of ionising radiation exposures to the minimum- ALARA= as low as reasonably achievable
To identify problems, regular audits have to take place:
1) Auditing of films
Score 1 = excellent quality (min 70% films)
Score 2 = acceptable quality (max 20% films)
Score 3 = unacceptable quality (max 10%
Unit 307 Written Questions
Q1) How you might support patients during the taking of radiographs?
There are a few ways how we can support patient during taking radiographs:
- Reassure them (same patients can be very nervous)
- If the patient attends with child or escort, nurse has responsibility to move everybody, except patient, out of the room during taking radiographs
- Dental nurse may back up dentist when he is explaining what is going to happen
- Assure patient of radiation levels, if question is risen
- Dental nurse may with dentist permission answering some of the patient questions
- Nurse should make sure patient is comfortable
- Nurse may assist patient during removing jewellery by keeping them safe on the site …show more content…
It contains all necessary chemicals (like developer and fixer) and water tanks. The film is moving through the machine on conveyor belt style rollers. All this must be covered under light-tight lid to prevent light damage to the film. When processing films, nurse will first put fresh gloves on, passed hands through the hand ports, dropped lead foil and black paper at the base of the tank and placed film into the entrance of the rollers. Once the film is processed and dried it will reappear at the delivery port. In the same way as with manual processing, care has to be taken when handling film not to bend it and hold the film by its side to prevent …show more content…
The quality assurance program is important for a couple of reasons: reduce unnecessary radiation exposure to patients and staff, decrease operating costs, prevent wrong diagnosis because of poor quality of the radiographs and overall improve quality of dental images.
For this reason, simple quality assurance system was developed that aims following:
- identify problems by scoring process films
- develop solutions
- limit the number of ionising radiation exposures to the minimum- ALARA= as low as reasonably achievable
To identify problems, regular audits have to take place:
1) Auditing of films
Score 1 = excellent quality (min 70% films)
Score 2 = acceptable quality (max 20% films)
Score 3 = unacceptable quality (max 10%