RPS Area Audit Flashcards
(17 cards)
What would you do if a carer/comforter is required to stay in the x-ray room with the patient during an exposure? What do we need to fill out and what do we need to do with that form?
Ask if they could be pregnant
Give them a lead and make sure they wear it correctly
Careers/comforter form and scan the form onto the CRIS event
What would you do if the equipment kept outputting radiation after you had released the exposure switch?
Press emergency stop
Datix
Inform LRSS
Inform staff and patient effected what happened
Name the RPS’s in this area?
How can you contact LRSS if necessary?
Medical physics in the contact book
x5978
If a nurse who you don’t recognise has referred a patient for x-ray. What could you do to check they are allowed? (NMR database
Check knowledge of equipment handover, AxREM forms and where to find them? (Ensure staff know that LRSS must be contacted prior to equipment going back into use if engineer has done anything to affect dose or image quality)
When/how often do we QC our equipment? Where can you check if QC has been completed
Monthly and after an engineer comes
And also if someone happens to the equipment such as detector being dropped
Have you read the local rules/risk assessments? Where can you find them?
Sharepoint
What are DRL’s? Why are they useful and where can you find them?
Diagnostic reference levels
Useful as it allows to check whether the machine is givi5ghe right dose
Found in the rooms and on sharepoint
If you come into work without a TLD badge, what do you do? What would you do with the spare badge you are issued with?
CT if a doctor wanted to perform a procedure using a new technique, what would you do?
PF- if a doctor wanted specific views that are not covered under the protocols what would you do
CT- can you demonstrate where an outside worker such as a prison officer would stand in the controlled area during a CT scan if a patient
Can you access the local rules/risk assessments/ IRMER documents on SharePoint?
What is learning from incidents portion of sharepoint- what was the last learning point you read?
What would you do if an outside worker is required to stay in the x-ray room with the patient during an exposure? What do we need to fill out and what do we do with that form?
What is the difference between an Emergency off button and an emergency stop button
Where are the locations of the emergency off buttons in all the rooms (staff to physically show
