What is the definition of delinquency?

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

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)

An outpatient presents for an FDG scan. She is a recent immigrant to the US and arrives with an interpreter. Her scan information indicates that she has a recently discovered lung tumor. a) What emotions may this patient be experiencing? (2 points) b) What can you do to help her? (3 points) c) What is something you don’t want to say to this patient and why is this unhelpful? (2 points) d) How will you give the explanation of the study to the patient, given the presence of the interpreter? (3 points)

You are performing a nuclear stress test with Lexiscan on a 67 year old male patient and see this rhythm on Lead II of the patient’s ECG.  1. Describe what you would do next.  2. What is the heart rate and what method did you use to determine it? (note: this is not a 6 second strip)

a) Using the basic ECG representation below, label each point. (6 points) b) What is happening in the atria, relative to the ECG signal? (4 points) c) What is happening in the ventricles, relative to the ECG signal? (4 points)  

List five ways you may exhibit professionalism as a nuclear medicine technologist.

A patient undergoing an imaging procedure indicates to the technologist that a seizure is impending. The most appropriate action for the technologist is to:

You have just transferred an inpatient from your imaging bed to a gurney following a GI bleed scan. Where is the best place to put their urinary catheter bag?

Mrs. Jones has gone to the ER with complaints of nausea and vomiting. She is given an oral anti-emetic in while waiting to see a doctor. Relate each of the following statements to the time-response curve for pharmacologic action discussed in class: 1. Mrs. Jones is still suffering from nausea and vomiting 5 minutes after taking the anti-emetic.  2. 30 minutes after taking the anti-emetic she reports she is feeling better.  3. Her nausea and vomiting return 4 hours after taking the anti-emetic.