TMB NCT Jurisprudence Exam Study Guide T/F There is no penalty for renewing your registration up to 30 days after it expires ✔False T/F Upon registration, you are required to provide the board with contact information ✔True What must you report to the board within 30 days? - ✔Within 30 days, you must report to the board any change of mailing or practice address, incarceration in a state or federal prison, and initial conviction, final conviction, placement on deferred adjudication, community supervision, or deferred disposition for certain Felonise and misdemeanors, and an initial finding of guilt for certain felonies. T/F The board has the authority to a public disclosure of disciplinary actions involving your registration - ✔False T/F A false report or false statement to the board regarding CE obtained by a registrant may be the basis for disciplinary action - ✔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 disciplinary action up to and including suspension T/F Are you registering it may be disciplined for failing to treat a patient according to the generally excepted standard for radiologic technicians - ✔True T/F 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 register it may have the registration suspended for which of the following - ✔Child support and delinquency and student loan default A volunteer healthcare provider who is serving as a direct service volunteer of a charitable organization will be protected from civil liability if - ✔Volunteer must be providing care in the course of working at the turtle organization at the time of the act, be within the scope of their license and disclose the care is not for composition A, B, and C
T/F If a person has executed a valid written out of hospital DNR order, any healthcare professional responding to a call for assistance must honor the call - ✔True T/F It is a violation of bored rules to perform a radiologic procedure for wish you were 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 DY, you must notify the board within how many days ✔30 days Which of the following items must be on your hospital badge? - ✔Name, what license you hold, and department or division in which you work T/F After someone is referred to the Texas physicians health program, any agreement between the individual and PHP is confidential, so long as the individual does not violate the agreement - ✔True T/F And NCT may perform fluoroscopy - ✔False T/F And NCT may perform a cineradiography (including digital acquisition techniques) ✔False T/F A student who is in rolled in a medical radiologic technology program may perform dangerous or hazardous procedures - ✔True, but only if the student performance the procedures in an academic or clinical setting as part of the program T/F And NCT may not perform mammography - ✔True T/F Individuals can represent to patients in the public that they are able to perform medical radiologic technologist procedures if they have graduated from an educational program approved by the board - ✔False T/F an NCT may perform a nuclear medicine studies including positron emission tomography - ✔False T/F Each time you are arrested you must immediately report the arrest to the board ✔False T/F If a designated agent under a properly delegated medical power of attorney finds it difficult to make decisions on the patients behalf, the agent may appoint someone else to serve as the designated agent - ✔False Y/N 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 come. Are you required to take any further action? - ✔Yes T/F And NCT may perform computed tomography CT or any variation thereof - ✔False You must reapply if your registration is expired for more than; One year, two years, six months, three years - ✔1 year Which of the following is a true regarding a physician who delegates medical responsibility to a person whom they have a reason to know is not qualified nor properly trained to perform the delegated act: A. The delegation is permissible: however the physician is responsible for the delegates acts. B. The delegation is not permissible: the physician new or should have known the delegate was not properly trained or qualified in the position and NCT may be subject to discipline by the board. C. The delegation is permissible: if the physician didn't actually know that the delegate wasn't qualified or properly trained, the physician isn't responsible for the delegation and isn't responsible for the delegated medical acts. D. A and C - ✔B. On the 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? A. The board may refuse to issue the registration or certificate. Or if it was already issued, the board may take a disciplinary action up to and including suspension. B. The board will notify the applicants degree program of an investigation. C. If the board discovers the deception after a certificate was already issued, the board cannot act until the certificate is renewed. D. The board cannot take disciplinary action on this. - ✔A T/F A non-certified technician may perform interventional radiographic procedures ✔False T/F Once your registration expires, you have a 30 day grace period to renew your registration without penalty - ✔False T/F A registrant cannot be disciplined for having a romantic relationship with a patient if they start they were like romantic relationship after running into each other in a nonmedical setting and the relationship is consensual and respectful - ✔False T/F 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
T/F A certificate holder or registrant who suffers from an impairment that affects their ability to actively practice as a radiologic technician board at the time they renew their certificate or registration - ✔True T/F Your arrest record is made public by the medical board - ✔False T/F Angiography, a type of intervention already graphic procedure, may be performed by an NCT - ✔False T/F an NCT may perform radiation therapy, including simulation, Breaky therapy, and all external radiation therapy beams (Including grenz rays) - ✔False T/F An NCT may administer radiopharmaceuticals - ✔False T/F You must report an impaired physician to the board if you believe they present a continuing threat to patient welfare or the public - ✔True In the event someone has an impairment that affect their ability to practice, he or she should self refer to which of the following: A. Texas Medical board B. American medical Association C. Texas medical Association D. Texas physicians health program - ✔D The fee required to maintain your registration must be paid every how many years A. 1 B. 5 C. 2 D. 3 - ✔C. 2 years Which of the following much do you report to the board within 30 days? A. Incarceration in a state or federal penitentiary B. Conviction or deferred adjudication for a felony C. Conviction or deferred adjudication for a misdemeanor related to assault D. Conviction or deferred education for a misdemeanor related to a crime that would require registration as a sex offender E. All of the above - ✔E. T/F A false report or false statement to the board regarding CE obtained by eight registrant may be the basis for disciplinary action - ✔True T/F A registrant may be disciplined for failing to treat a patient according to the generally excepted standard for radiologic technicians - ✔True
A volunteer healthcare provider who is serving as a direct service volunteer of a charitable organization will be protected from civil liability if: A. The volunteer commits the act or omission in the course of providing healthcare services to a patient at the charitable organization B. The services provided are within the scope of the license of the volunteer C. Before the volunteer provides the healthcare services the patient or person responsible for the patient signs that you written statement acknowledging the volunteer is providing care that is not administered or in expectation of compensation and limitation D. A, B, and C - ✔D. T/F The board has the authority to waive public disclosure of disciplinary actions involving your resignation - ✔True T/F Upon registration, you are required to provide the board with contact information ✔True If an applicant submits false or misleading statements to submit a license, certificate, or diploma that was illegal your fraudulently obtained in his or her application for licensure, which of the following may occur? A. The board and they refused to issue the license, certificate or or registration, or if it was already issued, there may be a disciplinary action up to and including suspension B. The board will notify the applicants degree program C. If the boy discovers the deception after license was already issued, the board cannot act until the license is renewed D. The board cannot take disciplinary action on this - ✔A T/F It is a violation of board rules to perform a radiologic procedure for what 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 T/F There is no penalty for renewing your registration up to 30 days after it expires ✔False A registrant may have their registration suspended for which of the following? A. Failure to pay child support B. Failure to pay license registration fees C. Failure to pay state or federal student loans D. A and C - ✔D If you were convicted of a felony do you want to, you must notify the board within how many days? A. 10 days B. 30 days C. 120 days
D. 365 days - ✔B T/F Your marital status must be disclosed to the board - ✔False Registrants have a legal duty to report most criminal convictions and any change of practice location or mailing address. The deadline by which you have to report this is Annually on the anniversary date of your registration, within 10 days, within 30 days of the event, when the medical board send you a request in to update your profile - ✔ Registrants have a legal duty to report most criminal convictions and any change of practice location or mailing address. The deadline by which you have to report this is Annually on the anniversary date of your registration, within 10 days, within 30 days of the event, when the medical board send you a request in to update your profile - ✔ Val Bryants bad checks on his personal account is eventually convicted for theft by check. How old is affect his certificate or is it just ration? It will not affect it because the contact and relate to his practice as an NCT, it will not affect it because he does not need to report the conviction to the board, it may result in disciplinary action by the board because it he was convicted of a crime of moral turpitude, Bob only be in trouble if he fails to self-report the conviction to the board board - ✔ May registrant be disappointed by the board for being abusive the patients and staff - ✔ May a registrant be disciplined by the board for borrowing money from the patient - ✔ Made a registrant be disciplined for entering into a business venture with a patient - ✔ A registrant may be discipline for negligence in performing ready logic technology services - ✔