IRT-PT1

• The HealthCare Environment - It is how to work in the environment
• Diagnostic - Is to know the disease by signs and symptoms by laboratory and diagnostic testing. 
• Therapeutic -  Is the treatment of the disease.
• Hospital - Is a place where patients seek treatment and one of the goals of hospitals is to provide comfort.
• Primary Hospitals - Can cater small cases like check - ups and refer patients.
• • Secondary Hospitals - Can handle short admissions and stabilize patients before transferring to Tertiary Hospitals. 
• • Tertiary Hospitals - Have 300 or more bed capacities and are complete in facilities and machines.
• Clinics - Can give the same treatment as hospitals but are smaller in size compared to hospitals.
• • Mental Health Facilities - Are where patients with illnesses that can hurt themselves and others are being taken to.
• Long term/ Residential Facilities - These are usually acquired by the rich as the medical facility is located within their homes for personal use and have PDNs (private duty nurse) available.
• Hospice - These  are facilities that are being run by nuns. An example are orphanages. It is a specialized care that provides physical comfort and emotional, social and spiritual support for people nearing the end of their life.
• • Outpatient/ Ambulatory Care - This caters only patients that can walk and is usually located within the hospital. 
• Preventive Care - These are often used for consultation to prevent the disease from fully emerging. Only some hospitals have this.
• • Home HeathCare - Is where patients stay at home and doctors go to them instead. These are usually for high profile patients. 
• • Telemedicine - Is where patients can seek medical attention from medical professionals with the use of technology like online consultations. 
• Accreditation - is a process of external quality control through a process of peer review.
• Affective Learning - involves attitudes, values, and feelings.
• Clinical Competency evaluation - It is a method of standardizing the evaluation of a student radiographer’s performance in the clinical setting.
• Cognitive learning - refers to classroom lectures and demonstrations of theories, as well as to the facts and background information necessary to understand a specific body of knowledge. 
• Continuing education - Each American Registry of Radiologic Technologist (ARRT) registrant must obtain either 24 continuing education credits acceptable to ARRT every 2 years or pass an examination in an additional discipline. 
• Independent clinical performance - the student will  perform all aspects of the procedure with appropriate supervision of a registered technologist.
• Institutional Accreditation - This seeks to assess the overall quality and integrity of an institution. 
• Interaction - Deals with confidential information and the interpersonal relationships with patients and other healthcare team members.
• Mudlin - Means tearful or emotional.
• Passive participation - students assist the practicing radiologic technologist and observe each detail of the radiographic procedure.
• Peer review - a  non-governmental agency attests to the adequacy of an institution or program in meeting established standards. 
• Phantoms - have x-ray attenuation and scattering properties that are similar to those of body tissues. 
• Programmatic Accreditation - seeks to address educational endeavors at the program level
• Psychomotor learning - is the hands-on phase or application of previously learned material.
• Radiography Curriculum - is written by the educators and technologists on the curriculum revision committee of the American Society of Radiologic Technologists (ASRT).
• Self study - involves the faculty  writing a report for the on-site visit from the Joint Review Committee on Education in Radiologic Technology (JRCERT).
• Site visit - Students will be interviewed by site visitors regarding your experiences in the program. 
• Solicitous - Means fearful or overly concerned. 
• • Emotionality - Means emotional balance 
• • Objectivity - The ability to interpret a situation from an unbiased point of view. 
• • Pathology - Means study of diseases.
• • Radiographic Pathology - The study of how images are seen.
• I.C.U. - Intensive Care Unit
• • Ambulatory -  Means the patient can walk.
• Philosophy - It is always the guiding principle of the hospital. “Tagline”

  Vision & Mission