Intro Chapter 4 fill ins

List 2 professional organizations/ Associations that you could choose to join? (you will need to write these out, no abbreviations)

Society of Diagnostic Medical Sonography, Society of Vascular Ultrasound

List 3 national certification organizations. (you will need to write these out, no abbreviations)

1) american registry of diagnostic medical sonography (ARDMS)

2) Cardiovascular Credentialing International (CCI)

3) American registry of radiologic technologists (ARRT)

Explain the process of becoming a RDMS through the ARDMS.

Fulfill ARDMS exam prerequisites

Sonography principles and intrumentation

Fulfill specialty ARDMS exam prerequisites

Explain the process of becoming a RVT through the ARDMS

Fulfill ARDMS exam prerequisites

Sonography principles and instrumentation

Fulfill specialty ARDMS prerequisite

Vascular Technology (VT)

_is an effort to assess the quality of institutions, programs an services, measuring the, against agreed-upon standards and thereby assuring that they meet those standards.

academic accreditation

_is educational credits required to maintain certification in a medical profession; can be obtained in various manners, including reading CME articles, attending lectures, and publishing.

continuing medical education

__ is a diagnostic or therapeutic medical procedure that requires the use of a medical instrument that must either break the skin or be inserted into a body cavity.

invasive procedures

__ is a method of measuring quality for imaging laboratories and specialties

laboratory accreditation

_ the process of maintaining certification in sonography by taking additional examinations on a scheduled basis

recertification

___ a region in the posterior fetal neck that can be measured during a sonogram between 11 and 14 gestational weeks; thickening of this area has been linked with fetal heart and chromosomal defects.

nuchal translucency_

__a sonographer who is placed in a leadership position who has the power to make departmental decisions and who works closely with the administration of an institution.

sonography manager

_areas of sonographic expertise (e.g., abdomen , vascular, OB/Gyn)

specialties

_____ sonographers who work on the front lines serving patients and performing sonographic examinations on a daily basis.

staff sonographer

_____ a proposed occupation for advanced sonographers in which the sonographer would both perform and interpret ultrasound procedures in a primary or specialty care setting.

advanced practice sonographer

To maintain certification through the ARDMS, how may credits must a sonographer obtain every three years?

30

______ is multidisciplinary membership organization that includes all areas of the sonographic practice involved in the establishment of standards and practices.

AIUM - American institute of ultrasound in medicine

__national membership organization for echocardiographers.

ASE -american society of echocardiography

__ability to influence others to accomplish a specific goal.

leadership

__The online exchange of information or services among individuals, groups and institutions.

online networking_

____ the face-to-face exchange of information or services among individuals, groups and institutions.

personal networking