Radiologic technologist

Assignment B Title: Radiation Safety and Protection in DR/RT 1729 words Introduction Health Physics is concerned with providing occupational radiation protection and minimizing radiation dose to the public. Every technologist has the obligation to always ensure that the radiation dose to both the patient and other health care professionals are kept as low as reasonably achievable (ALARA) without compromising the diagnostic value of the image. Cardinal Principles of Radiation Protection All…

Diagnostic Medical Sonography Being able to identify bumps, inflammation, tissue mutilation, growths, and the overwhelming news of the sex of an unborn child all have one thing in common, an ultrasound. Diagnostic medical sonography, more commonly referred to as ultrasound, is a growing area of the health care sector with excellent job prospects. Sonographers are skilled clinicians who perform ultrasound studies as ordered by physicians for their patients. The images created by sonographers are…

1. Who would be the best Ultrasound Technologist out there you would know? That’s right, me. It caught my eye one day while I was watching tv after softball practice and I was curious what I was going to be when I go off to college. This unique job stole my attention because I adore babies, especially my nephew, realistically this does not seem too hard of a job to do. Mainly all the things to get me prepared to graduate for high school I have already succeeded in. This job should be a task…

Every year there are nearly 8 million bones broken a year, but who is going to be the one x-raying them? Well that’s where Radiologic Technology comes in. When you hear RT you will usually think oh that’s so easy all do you is look at bones and see where they are. We have 212 bones and we need to know every single one. We do more than look at bones. They also will do imaging exams like X-rays, computerized axial tomography, or CT, scans and mammograms. If you would ask any of the students…

the proper respect and care. This professional profile puts major emphasis on the fact that there are different types of people that go through the health care system, and as medical professionals, we must cater to all of them. I think the radiologic technologist who wrote this professional profile had the patient's needs in mind. The ethical concern in this profile is the need for medical professionals to communicate with their patients. If we can't understand what they need or want, we will…

What will I experience during and after the procedure? You will feel pressure or discomfort on your breast as it is squeezed by the compression paddle. Be sure to inform the technologist if pain occurs as compression is increased. If discomfort is significant, less compression will be used. Follow-up examinations may be necessary at times because a suspicious or questionable finding needs clarification with additional views or…

someone coming into this career is to look at Office of Information Technology (OIT). He says this school is an amazing program and you come out educated and prepared for the real world. An x-ray technical is also known as the radiologic or the multi-modality technologist. An x-ray technician is a medical professional that deals with taking magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), computed tomography (CT) scans, Fluoroscopy, film and digital mammography, and…

She slowly turned toward me and smiled, overwhelming joy spread across her face as she replied, “Yes, this is my first pregnancy”. It had been a busy night in the ultrasound department and after three years of experience working as the solo technologist on the weekend midnight shift I had become all too familiar with the challenges of the healthcare field. As any medical professional can attest to, there are significant encounters we face that have the momentum to change your life, this is one…

In researching this topic, the question to weigh is whether or not the severity of the injury warrants the use of a CT scan as these machines produces small doses of ionized radiation. As CT scanning has been the de facto standard for identifying a significant injury to a person’s head is nothing to ignore. More often than needed, CT scans will be used as a readily and rapidly available tool to assist doctors instead of human observation alone. That being said, this study performed an analysis…

The primary care provider does an initial exam and refers the patient to an in network breast facility for tertiary care (Stechschulte, 2016). The following tertiary care was provided at the breast facility: a mammogram performed by a RT (radiologic technologist), an ultrasound performed by RDMS (registered diagnostic medical sonographer), with all results and recommendations reviewed and agreed upon by a radiologist (Stechschulte, 2016). The primary care provider after reviewing the provide…