For each of the personnel below, state whether you, as a nuc…
For each of the personnel below, state whether you, as a nuclear medicine technologist, are in a line relationship or a staff relationship to them. a) Human resources manager b) VP Diagnostic services c) Nuclear medicine lead technologist d) Nuclear medicine physician e) Cardiology supervisor
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Your department’s protocol for a parathyroid scan is to acquire a contrast-enhanced diagnostic CT scan following the SPECT scan 2 hours post-injection. Protocol is for a CT technologist to come to the nuclear medicine department to administer the iodinated contrast and acquire the diagnostic CT scan. You have just completed the patient’s SPECT scan and the patient is anxious to get off the imaging bed, but no CT technologists are available to come for the next 10 minutes. Your lead technologist instructs you to go ahead and administer contrast and acquire the CT scan without the CT technologist present. You have completed some CT training but are not yet a registered CT technologist. a) What are the 4 ethical duties and how may they be applied to this scenario (8 points). b) What legal considerations apply to this scenario? (4 points)
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