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Week 8 Assignment: Exam Study Stack Review

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1.Touch can be an effective communication strategy. As you ask a patient to turn on his or her side for an oblique projection, you gently touch his or her hip or shoulder to guide them into the correct position. This is a type of touch emphasis.
2.When asking about a patient’s pain, it is effective to ask the patient to point to or touch the area that hurts and record the information.
3.According to Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, the customary stages of the dying or grieving process in the typical sequence are denial and isolation, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance.
4.Valuable traits of the U.S. mainstream culture include which of the following?1. Strong work ethic 2. Efficiency 3. Travel and mobility 4. Tolerance and patience 5. Individualism 6. Capitalism 7. Competition 1, 2, 5, and 7 only
5.It is important that patients be referred to by their preferred name.
6.To protect the human rights of people with disabilities, four essential core values of human rights were recognized by the 1993 Vienna Declaration for Human Rights. These core values are solidarity, dignity, autonomy, and equality.
7.Most radiologists have one key question they want answered when it relates to any medical imaging examination. That question most likely would be Why is the patient having this examination?
8.In preparing to radiograph a patient who has come to the medical imaging department with a complaint of abdominal pain, you begin to question the patient as part of the history. A good initial question to ask the patient would be “Can you tell me about the nature of your pain?”
9.As you prepare to take a PA chest radiograph on a patient who is suspected of having a lung collapse, you note that the patient has an extremely difficult time taking in a deep inspiration. A radiologic and imaging sciences professional would record the observable depth of inspiration as additional history.
10.When taking a patient history, it is important to maintain a polite and professional demeanor when gathering information.
11.When taking a patient history, a competent radiologic and imaging sciences professional does none of these.
12.It would be professionally appropriate for the imaging professional to gently touch the patient to clarify the location of their pain.
13.When questioning patients to obtain an accurate patient history, start with open-ended questions and then follow up with more direct inquiries.
14.Patient pain that has been occurring over several months would be considered chronic
15.In determining a patient’s description of their pain, a good question to ask would be All of these
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