Communication and awareness
Deep sorrow, especially caused by death or loss
The law that protects patient health information and confidentiality
HIPAA
A written order that states that healthcare workers should not attempt life-saving CPR on a patient
Do Not Resuscitate (DNR)
Type of echogenicity that has few echoes
Hypoechoic
Top number in a blood pressure reading
Systolic pressure
Kinesics, proxemics, and touch are forms of...
Nonverbal communication
The principle defined as "to do no harm"
Nonmaleficence
This type of law involves crimes against an individual and includes offenses such as trespassing, libel, slander, etc.
Civil law
Ability to feel for others and their well-being through connection and humanistic response
Compassion
Temporary loss of consciousness
Syncope
Understanding of one's own culture and ability to accept and interact effectively with people of different cultures
Culture competence
Ethical principle emphasizing the importance of allowing patients to decide their own care
Autonomy
What a sonographer is operating beyond if they make a diagnosis to a patient
Scope of Practice
Taking others' perspectives and showing concern for others rather than oneseful
Altruism
Antiseptic solution commonly used to clean the area of a biopsy
Chlorhexidine
Differences that exist between individuals
Diversity
Legal and ethical boundaries of the profession of sonography
Scope of Practice
Voluntary agreement or permission a patient gives a medical professional to examine, touch, or treat them
Consent
Complication from traumatic stress and burnout from taking on other people's feelings
Compassion fatigue
How to say "how many times have you been pregnant" in Spanish
Cuantas veces ha estado embarazada?
Degree to which an individual can obtain, process, and understand their health status in regard to decision making
Health literacy
Personal beliefs about right and wrong, which sonographers must be aware of to avoid bias and provide ethical care
Morality
Name one of the four D's of negligence
Duty, derelict, direct cause, damages
Making an educated guess based on the facts from clinical history
Inductive reasoning
Droplet nuclei small enough to be inhaled
Airborne transmitted diseases