Quality Assurance
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| show | Drive stand, gantry, patient support assembly, electronic cabinet, and console (Mosby, 2011, pg. 76)
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| show | Electron gun (Mosby, 2011, pg. 76)
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| What is the purpose of the magnetron and klystron? | show 🗑
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| show | Flattening, scattering (Mosby, 2011, pg. 77)
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| What systems must be functioning in order to treat a patient safely on a high energy machine? | show 🗑
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| Portal or field verification is defined as_________. | show 🗑
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| Gaseous associated with machine hazards include: | show 🗑
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| show | Daily (Mosbys, 2011, pg. 77)
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| The target to patient skin distance is measured using: | show 🗑
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| show | 2 mm. (Radiation Essentials, 2010, pg. 70)
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| show | 2 mm. (Radiation Essentials, 2010, pg. 71)
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| show | The machine is on, over the doors of the treatments rooms and simulator rooms (Radiation Essentials, 2010, pg. 68)
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| What are limit switches designed for? | show 🗑
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| show | 180 degrees (Mosbys, 2011, pg. 78)
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| If a therapist makes a mistake while delivering a patient’s treatment, who should be notified? | show 🗑
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| show | All personal exposure records must be kept indefinitely by the institution . (Radiation Essentials, 2010, pg. 71)
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| What is an emergency off button designed to do? What does it shut down? | show 🗑
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| show | If an emergency off button fails, the main circuit breaker is the next course of action. All power of the machine will be cut off. (Radiation Essentials, 2010, pg. 68)
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| Safety door interlocks should be checked: | show 🗑
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| show | A test performed to check the crosshair pertaining to radiation beam coincidence. It is performed by taking graph paper and rotating the collimator to insure that there is not “walk-out” of the crosshair.
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| show | A rotational check should be performed to avoid mechanical collision and to make sure the gantry will rotate without hitting anything. A sidelight/laser check should be performed so that the lasers agree with each other and the isocenter.
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| show | Machine data that is current must be kept at the console. (Radiation Essentials, 2010, pg. 71)
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| To check the accuracy of gantry digital readouts, one could use: | show 🗑
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| show | The process of real warm up occurs when the machine enters the time delay mode. (Radiation Essentials, 2010, pg. 67)
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| Daily quality checks for Cobalt Teletherapy units are important to complete in order to: | show 🗑
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| show | Wipe tested, semiannually (Mosbys, 2011, Pg. 81)
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| Wipe testing should be performed upon receipt of brachytherapy sources and then at ________ intervals for sources with long half-lives. | show 🗑
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| show | Ensure that all active sources have been removed and returned to a safe location (Mosbys, 2011, Pg. 81)
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| show | Calibration (Mosbys, 2011,pg. 84)
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| show | Cleanliness, voids, and appropriate thickness. (Mosbys, 2011, Pg. 85)
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| Positioning and immobilization devices should be regularly inspected for ______, ______, and _______. | show 🗑
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| show | Monthly (Mosbys, 2011, Pg. 85)
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| show | The Joint Commission (TJC), is an independent, non-profit organization dedicated to improving the quality of care in health care settings (W&L, 2010, pg.364)
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| show | The IM system was created by the TJC which provides a continuous evaluation of performance data that is used in the accreditation process. (W&L, 2010, pg. 372)
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| What are the components of a brachytherapy log book. | show 🗑
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| What does Quality Improvement mean for a healthcare environment? | show 🗑
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| show | To make sure that everything is running properly. An audit includes all aspects of radiation therapy process routinely and continuously measured, results analyzed and corrective action is taken as required ensuring quality patient care
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| Who should be included when putting together a quality improvement team in an oncology clinic? | show 🗑
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| What is the Indicator Measurement (IM) System? Who created this tool? | show 🗑
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| What should be some of the components of a Quality Improvement Plan? | show 🗑
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| show | Each program aids in assisting in improving quality and reducing costs. Lean is a system-wide set of methods and tools used for improving speed and efficiency, six sigma focuses on improving precision and accuracy, and lean six sigma is just both.
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| The important QA tests associcated with th light field are: | show 🗑
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| show | Change due to malfunction of system electronics or component fault and wear and tearl of the equipment (Mosbys, 2011, pg. 77)
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| show | 3% (Mosbys, 2011 , pg. 78)
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| show | 2% (Mosbys, 2011 , pg. 78)
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| Scan and couch vertical positional accuracy for CT planning must be: | show 🗑
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| show | Mapcheck (Mosbys, 2011 , pg. 86)
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| show | Acceptance testing (Mosbys, 2011 , pg.77 )
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| Output corrections must be made monthly when using cobalt sources. The correction is about: | show 🗑
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| Gantry and collimator indicators should be accurate to within ___ degree | show 🗑
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