When you were a student radiographer, the importance of radiation protection was constantly stressed, and you have incorporated the principle of ALARA as a professional value. As an employee working within a busy imaging department, you work with some technologists who do not practice radiation protection as you have been taught. One technologist in particular routinely overexposes patients to get a “perfect image for the radiologist.” This poor technologist practice would be an example of

  Question 5: answer the questions with True or False. (5)

(Select the best option) A technologist who has completed a procedure on a patient leaves the area grumbling, “I hate to do AIDS patients because I am afraid of catching the disease.” A member of the housekeeping staff hears the technologist and asks who the AIDS patient is so he can pass the information along to his coworkers for safety reasons. The technologist responds by giving the patient’s name and room number. This act constitutes a(n)

You are enjoying an evening with a friend at the theater. The person seated behind you routinely texts messages to his girlfriend about the movie and what is happening. This behavior would be a

You have just completed a chest radiograph on a young female patient. As you review the image, you notice she was wearing a necklace during the exposure, and it is clearly seen over the chest anatomy. Submitting this image to the radiologist for interpretation would

What is the likelihood of a patient developing cancer in the short-term from a single radiologic exam?

Failure to pay one’s federal income taxes would be an example of a(n) (Select the best option)

Placing a child in a Pigg-O-Stat without the parent’s permission may warrant. (Pigg-O-Stat is pediatric Immobilizer used in medical imaging)

(Select the best option) Using moral rules as your complete guide to determine appropriate professional behavior

6.1. How were the systems of government different in Athens and Sparta?   (2)