Radiology

the types of services patients may receive. Inpatients are admitted to a hospital for treatment, while outpatients are seen without being admitted to the hospital. Coding for outpatients can include such services as laboratory, physical therapy, radiology, emergency room, same-day surgeries, or observation services. Coding for inpatients is usually more complex because they are typically sicker or undergoing more complex surgeries than those who are not admitted to a hospital. The procedure…

The trauma radiographer should take the important responsible in radiation protection of the patient, member of the trauma team, and the radiographer himself or herself. Member of the trauma team cannot leave the patient in critical situation while imaging procedure are being performed. The unnecessary radiation exposure should be avoid and the trauma radiographer must unsure the team member are protected. In general radiography, common practices should minimal the radiation exposure include…

satisfaction through the utilization of a DRD (Sharieff et al., 2013). It will require a team to map current processes and design the integration of the DRD into the current ED flow. This team will consist of staff nurses, ED MDs, registration, lab, radiology, facilities, and a patient liaison, as all are stakeholders in the process. A pilot to identify weaknesses and failure points in the new process will be planned once the procedure is designed and the DRD area is designated. The team will…

During an era when women were not known to attend college, let alone, play a major influential role in science, Marie Curie did just that. Born Marie Sklodowska in 1867 in Warsaw, Poland, Marie is best known for discovering the elements radium and polonium, and her study of radioactivity, which led to advances in the treatment of cancer and the development of nuclear power; both of which are still used today. Her work on radioactivity led to her being the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and…

really helpful for the doctor. Usually patient came with different background and required different needs of care and experienced different types of illnesses. Therefore they required intervention from multidisciplinary teams such as pathology, radiology, paramedic, speech pathology and others. Most of the allied health professionals are specializing in their own field, hence they know what is the most appropriate care to deliver to the patient and doctors can always refer to them and take…

I was first introduced to radiation therapy by going to my mother’s cancer treatments. Her therapist was one of the most empathetic and compassionate people she received care from. The therapist telling me about her job and seeing it help my mom was the spark that ignited my passion to become a radiation therapist. Since my initial introduction to radiation therapy I have researched the profession, schools and been on several job shadows. I was an observer at several healthcare facilities…

This career is my backup career if radiology does not work out for me. I choose pharmacy as a backup because it can still be used in the medical field and it involves quite a number of chemistry. From shadowing professionals in their careers, I want to work toward having a 3.8 GPA to give myself a better chance into medical school and to provide myself with a good backbone in the general sciences needed for medical school. Overall, I am pursuing a career in radiology by majoring in chemistry…

I once had an encounter at work with an elderly foreign woman at the hospital. As I was introducing myself to an emergency department patient to bring them to radiology, this elderly woman nonchalantly walks into the patient’s room. I assume she is a friend of the patient, but I quickly learn that the patient has no idea who this elderly woman is and is asking her to leave. All the while, the elderly woman is speaking to us indiscernibly due to her heavy accent. So I excuse myself from the…

I was born on a farm in rural Alabama to a seventy-two year old veteran and a forty-five year old homemaker. Although I was the youngest of fifteen children, my mother saw to it that my education never suffered. At the tender age of fourteen I left the comfort of home and attended a three year boarding school. During this time I took advanced mathematical and science courses along with rigorous language courses such as French, Spanish, and Latin. However, by the end of high school I was unsure…

interests in both the clinical and research fields. Doing major rotations in Internal medicine, surgery and pediatrics. Followed by an intense fifth years of many specialties and subspecialties including; orthopedics, psychiatry, family medicine, radiology, ophthalmology, dermatology. Excelling in…