HSA 3104 Test 4 Questions and Answers (100% Pass)
What is ARRT? - Answer️️ -The American registry of Radiologic
Technologists
What does ARRT do? - Answer️️ -it offers voluntary certification for
radiologic technologists
In what way do other states use ARRT? - Answer️️ -several stat...
What is ARRT? - Answer✔️✔️-The American registry of Radiologic
Technologists
What does ARRT do? - Answer✔️✔️-it offers voluntary certification for
radiologic technologists
In what way do other states use ARRT? - Answer✔️✔️-several states use
ARRT-administered exams for state licensing purposes.
How can one be eligible for ARRT certification? - Answer✔️✔️-technologists
must graduate from an ARRT-approved accredited program and pass
examination.
Who do employers prefer to hire (radiological techs.)? - Answer✔️✔️-
certified radiological technologists
In order to maintain ARRT certification, how many hours of continuting
education must be completed? - Answer✔️✔️-24 hours must be completed
every two years.
Why is employment for radiologic technologists projected to increase? -
Answer✔️✔️-Aging population/ technology advancement/ advancement in
medicine management/ advancement in disease management.
What does an oncology team need first before creating a treatment plan? -
Answer✔️✔️-A radiation therapist must first use an X-ray imaging machine
or computed tomography (CT) scan to pinpoint location of a tumor.
What is a radiation physicist? - Answer✔️✔️-a worker who calibrates the
linear accelerator simulator
What is a radiation oncologist? - Answer✔️✔️-a physician who specializes in
therapeutic radiology
What do radiation physicists and radiation oncologists do collectively? -
Answer✔️✔️-determine the best way to administer treatment.
Who completes the plan for the patient by the linear accelerator simulator,
and what occurs in the plan? - Answer✔️✔️-The therapist completes a plan
by positioning the patient and adjusting the linear accelerator to the
specifications developed by the team; then, recording the details so the
conditions can be replicated during treatment.
What does the joint review committee on education in radiologic
technology do? - Answer✔️✔️-they accredit formal training programs in
radiography.
What is a dosimetrist? - Answer✔️✔️-technicians who calculate the dose of
radiation that will be used for treatment.
Collectively, what does the radiation oncologist and dosimetrist do? -
Answer✔️✔️-review records to ensure that the treatment plan is working, to
monitor the amount of radiation exposure that the patient has received,
and t keep the side effects to a minimum.
What does federal legislation protect the public from in terms of radiation?
- Answer✔️✔️-hazards of unnecessary exposure to medical and dental
radiation by ensuring that operators of radiological equipment are
properly trained?
What are the treatments given for cancer? - Answer✔️✔️-The sole treatment
for cancer is radiation therapy, but it is usually used in conjunction with
chemotherapy or surgery.
What are pharmaceuticalides used in? - Answer✔️✔️-they are used in
nuclear medicine to diagnose and treat disease.
What does diagnostic imaging do? - Answer✔️✔️-embraces several
procedures that aid in diagnosing ailments
What is an example of diagnosing imaging? - Answer✔️✔️-X-ray
What are radionuclides? (in nuclear medicine) - Answer✔️✔️-unstable atoms
that emit radiation spontaneously, which are used to diagnose and treat
disease?
What are radiopharmaceuticals? - Answer✔️✔️-purified and compounded
radionuclides
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