SONO 266 - Sonography Practicum VI

• Utilize oral and written communication.
• Maintain clinical records.
• Interact with the interpreting physician with oral or written summary of findings as permitted by clinical affiliate.
• Recognize significant clinical information and historical facts from the patient and the medical records, which may impact on the diagnostic examination.
• Comprehend and employ appropriate medical terminology, abbreviations, symbols, terms, and phrases.
• Provide basic patient care and comfort.
• Maintain infection control and utilize universal precautions.
• Anticipate and be able to respond to the needs of the patient.
• Identify life-threatening situations and implement emergency care as permitted by clinical affiliate.
• Demonstrate human gross and sectional anatomy while scanning.
• Evaluate anatomic structures in the region of interest.
• Recognize the sonographic appearance of normal tissue structures.
• Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of physiology, pathology, and pathophysiology.
• Obtain and evaluate pertinent patient history and physical findings.
• Extend standard diagnostic testing protocol as required by patient history or initial findings.
• Review data from current and previous examinations to produce a written/oral summary of technical findings, including relevant interval changes, for the interpreting physician’s reference.
• Recognize examination findings that require immediate clinical response and notify the interpreting physician of such findings.
• Demonstrate acoustical physics, Doppler ultrasound principles, and ultrasound instrumentation.
• Select the appropriate technique(s) for examination(s) being performed.
• Adjust instrument controls to optimize image quality.
• Perform linear, area, circumference, and other related measurements from sonographic images or data.
• Recognize and compensate for acoustical artifacts.
• Utilize hard-copy devices to obtain pertinent documentation of examination findings.
• Minimize patient exposure to acoustical energy.
• Demonstrate the interaction between ultrasound and tissue and the probability of biological effects in clinical examinations.
• Employ professional judgment and discretion.
• Protect the patient’s right to privacy.
• Maintain confidentiality.
• Perform within the scope of practice.
• Adhere to the professional codes of conduct/ethics.

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