NCRT Practice Test

NCRT Practice Test The fee required to maintain your registration must be paid every _________ years. - ✔✔2 You must re-apply if your registration has expired for more than __________. - ✔✔1 year Once your registratio ...

NCRT Practice Test The fee required to maintain your registration must be paid every _________ years. - ✔✔2 You must re-apply if your registration has expired for more than __________. - ✔✔1 year Once your registration expires, you have a thirty 30-day grace period to renew your registration without penalty. - ✔✔False- There is no 30 day grace period Your arrest record is made public by the Medical Board. - ✔✔False Each time you are arrested, you must immediately report the arrest to the Board. - ✔✔False A professional review action taken by a medical peer review committee that results in a report must then be reported to the Board by the healthcare entity. - ✔✔True An MRT student gets arrested for driving while intoxicated while he is in the last month of his program. When filling out his application, he lies on the application form and states that he has never been arrested. The Board later learns of the arrest. Which of the following may occur? - ✔✔The board may refuse to issue the registration or certificate. Or if it was already issued, the Board may take disciplinary action up to and including suspension. 'A registrant cannot be disciplined for having a romantic relationship with a patient if they start their romantic relationship after running into each other in a non-medical setting and the relationship is consensual and respectful. - ✔✔False-The registrant's initiating the relationship in a non-medical setting and engaging in a consensual and respectful romantic relationship will not change the fact that the registrant engaged in the sexual conduct withe the person while he or she was a patient. Your must report an impaired physician to the Board if you believe they present a continuing threat to patient welfare or the public. - ✔✔True Which of the following is true regarding a physician who delegates medical responsibility to a person whom they have reason to know is not qualified not properly trained to perform the delegated act: - ✔✔The delegation is not permissible: The physician knew or should have known the delegate was not properly trained or qualified and the physician and NCT may be subject to discipline by the Board. If a designated agent under a properly delegated Medical Power of Attorney finds it difficult to make decisions on the patient's behalf, the agent may appoint someone else to serve as teh disignated agent. - ✔✔False-The agent's authority is limited under the statue to making "any health care decision on the patient's behalf that the patient could make if the patient were competent." You have a colleague whom you suspect may be struggling with alcohol or drug addiction which, in your opinion poses a threat to the public welfare. You leave a brochure about the Texas Physician Health Program in his mailbox. Are you required to take any further action? - ✔✔YesTexas Medical practitioners are required to report to the Board any medical practitioners who pose a continuing threat to public welfare. A certificate holder or registrant who suffers from an impairment that affects their ability to actively practice as a radiologic technician must report this impairment to the Board at the time they renew their certificate or registration. - ✔✔True In the event someone has an impairment that affects their ability to practice, he or she should self-refer to which of the following: - ✔✔Texas Physicians Health Program A non-certified technician (NCT) may perform interventional radiographic procedures. - ✔✔False Angiography, a type of interventional radiographic procedure, may be performed by an NCT - ✔✔False An NCT may perform nuclear medicine studies including positron emission tomography (PET). - ✔✔False An NCT may administer radio-pharmaceutical. - ✔✔False An NCT may perform radiation therapy, including simulation, brachytherapy, and all external radiation therapy beams (including Grenz rays). - ✔✔False An NCT may perform computed tomography (CT) or any variation thereof. - ✔✔False There is no penalty for renewing your registration up to 30 days after it expires. - ✔✔False-The rules do not allow for a 30 day grace period. Once your registration has expired, you cannot practice until you receive confirmation from the Board that your renewal request has been approved. Upon registration, you are required to provide the Board with contact information. - ✔✔True Which of the following must you report to the Board within 30 days? - ✔✔All of the above The Board has the authority to waive public disclosure of disciplinary actions involving your registration. - ✔✔False-all disciplinary actions are public as required by the Texas Occupations Code and the Board has no authority to keep confidential any disciplinary actions taken against a registrant. A false report or false statement to the Board regarding CE obtained by a registrant may be the basis for disciplinary actions. - ✔✔True If an applicant submits false or misleading statements or submits a license, certificate, or diploma that was illegally or fraudulently obtained in his or her application for licensure, which of the following may occur? - ✔✔The Board may refuse to issue the license, certificate or registration, or if it was already issued, there may be a disciplinary action up to and including suspension. A registrant may be disciplined for failing to treat a patient according to the generally accepted standard for radiologic technicians. - ✔✔True If someone self-reports a problem with alcohol or substance abuse, the Board may order them to undergo random drug and alcohol screening. - ✔✔True A registrant may have their registration suspended for which of the following: - ✔✔Child Support Delinquency & Student Loan Default. A volunteer health care provider who is serving as a direct service volunteer or a charitable organization will be protected from civil liability if: - ✔✔A,B, & C- The patient signs a written statement that acknowledges the volunteer is providing care that is not administered for or in expectation of compensation and the limitations on the recovery of damages from the volunteer in exchange for receiving the health care services. If a person has executed a valid written Out-of-Hospital Do-Not-Resuscitate (DNR) order, any health care professional responding to a call for assistance must honor the order. - ✔✔True It is a violation of Board rules to perform a radiologic procedure for which you are not qualified or do not have the proper certificate or registration from the Board that would allow you to perform the procedure. - ✔✔True If you are convicted of a felony DUI, you must notify the Board within ______days. - ✔✔30 days What must be on your hospital badge? - ✔✔Name, what license you hold, and department or division in which you work. After someone is referred to the Texas Physicians Health Program (PHP), any agreement between the individual and PHP is confidential, so long as the individual does not violate the agreement. - ✔✔True An NCT may perform fluoroscopy. - ✔✔False An NCT may perform cine-radiography (including digital acquisition techniques) - ✔✔False A student who is enrolled in a medical radiologic technology program may perform dangerous or hazardous procedures. - ✔✔True, but only if the student performs the procedure in an academic or clinical setting as part of the program. An NCT may not perform mammography. - ✔✔True Individuals can represent to patients and the public that they are able to perform medical radiologic technology procedures if they have graduated from an educational program approved by the Board. - ✔✔False-unless the person has a certificate or is resisted with the Board.