This document provides information about the RAD 104 Hospital Practice & Care of Patient course, including the lecture schedule, textbooks, aim, objectives, and topics to be covered. The course aims to provide outlines of patient care, basic nursing procedures, radiation protection, infection control, and sterilization in the radiology department. Objectives include learning medical terminology and relating terms to anatomy, physiology, disease states, pharmacological categories, and diagnostic tests. The course will also cover various radiologic technologies and ensuring understanding of related terminology.

1. Hospital Practice
&
Care of Patient
RAD 104
Part 1

2. RAD 104 Lecture
Schedule
Day Time Room
Sunday 08:00 09:40 S-113
Tuesday 11:00 12:40 S-113
Wednesday 10:00 11:40 S-113

3. Text book
Introduction to Radiologic Science and Patient Care
Author: Arlene Adler, Richard Carlton
Other reference
• Basic Medical techniques and Patient Care in Imaging
Technology
Author: Lillian S. Torres, Terriann Linn-Watson Norcutt,
Andrea Guillen Dutton

4. Aim
• This course will provide you with an outline of
patient care and welfare in the Radiology
Department, practice and use of basic nursing
procedures, rules regulations and practices of
radiation protection, infection control and
sterilization.

5. Objectives
• Apply basic principles of medical word building.
• Correctly pronounce medical terms.
• Define common medical terms.
• Relate common medical terms to
– human anatomy and physiology;
– common disease states,
– pharmacological categories and
– diagnostic tests.
• Identify the medical terminology in medical record
reports.

6. RADIOLOGIC TECHNOLOGY
• Radiography
• Mammography
• Computed Tomography
• Magnetic Resonance
Imaging
• Quality Management
• Sonography
• Radiation Therapy
• Bone Densitometry
• Vascular Sonography
• Breast Sonography
• Cardiac Interventional
Radiography
• Vascular Interventional
radiography
• Radiologist Assistant
• Nuclear Medicine
Which on of these that you don’t understand

7. activity

8. Word Roots
• Usually derived form Greek or Latin
• Frequently indicates a body part
• Most medical terms have one or more word
roots

9. Examples of Word Roods
Greek Word Word Root
Kardia (heart) Cardi
Gaster (stomach) Gastr
Hepar (liver) Hepat
Nephros (kidney) Nephr
Osteon (bone) oste

10. Prefixes
• Word element located at the beginning of a
word
• Changes the meaning of the word
• Usually indicates a number, time, position,
direction, color, or sense of negation

11. Examples of Prefix
• A- mast -ia
without breast condition
• hyper- therm -ia
excessive heat condition
• intra- muscul -ar
in muscle relating to

12. Suffixes
• Word Ending
• Suffix usually indicates a procedure, condition,
disease, or part of speech
• Usually derived from Greek or Latin

13. Examples of Suffix
• Arthr/o -centesis Arthrocentesis
joint puncture puncture of a joint
• throac/o -tomy Thoracotomy
chest incision incision of the chest
• gastr/o -megaly Gastromegaly
stomach enlargement enlargement of the
stomach

14. • Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
• Pneumon-ultra-micro-scopic-silico-volcano-coniosis
an artificial long word said to mean a lung disease caused by inhaling very fine
ash and sand dust.

15. Pronunciation Guidelines
• Ae and oe
• c and g
• e and es
• ch
• I
• pn
• ps

18. Word lens

19. Wrong terminology
Benign - Be 9
Coma - ,
Urine - you're in
Tablet -

20. • Radiology- Medical specialty in which x-rays,
radium, and radioactive substances are applied in the
diagnosis and treatment of the patient
• Diagnostic Imaging- Medical specialty in which x-
rays, radium, radioactive substances, sound waves,
and radio frequencies are applied in the diagnosis
and treatment of the patient
• Radiologist- Physician who applies any form of
radiation in the diagnosis and treatment of disease.

21. • Radiographer- Skilled person qualified by
education to provide patient services using imaging
modalities as directed by a physician qualified to
order and/or perform radiographic procedures.
(X-ray Technologist)
• Radiograph- a photographic record produced by x-
rays through an object.

22. • Mrs. Jones is a 60 y/o admitted thru
ER c abdominal pain in the RLQ.
CXR, EKG, CBC and ABG’s were done
stat. It was decided to perform an
exploratory laparotomy, but suspects
she will end up needing a bilateral
salpingoophorectomy.
Activity

23. WHY CHOOSE
RADIOGRAPHY?
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