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”