Determine if radiologic technologists in the three states can administer contrast media or dye under the supervision of a physician.

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In this scenario, your organization has struggled during the past year with hiring qualified radiologic technologists (a.k.a. x-ray techs, radiographers, or rad techs) in your state of CA and two neighboring states. After reading an Office of Inspector General (OIG) scope of practice case, your supervisor has become concerned about whether or not your radiologic technologists can legally administer contrast media or dye under the supervision of a physician. If the state allows radiologic technologists to administer contrast media, the organization wants to invest in training radiologic technologists to administer the contrast media rather than hiring additional personnel.

Locate and evaluate the scope of practice information for radiologic technologists for your state and two neighboring states.

Create a 7- to 9-slide presentation with speaker notes using Microsoft® PowerPoint® that examines the following:

  • The information each state includes in regard to scope of practice for radiologic technologists.
  • How the scope of practice for radiologic technologists varies for each state (e.g. administration, certification, regulation, etc).
  • Determine if radiologic technologists in the three states can administer contrast media or dye under the supervision of a physician.
    • In the absence of clarity from the state, discuss options where you might be able to turn to in order to justify practice guidelines for your organization. (What are other similar orgs doing? How do they justify it?)
    • Recommend action items to your supervisor.
      • Training in contrast administration
      • Hire additional personnel
      • Cost

Cite 3 reputable references to support your assignment (e.g., trade or industry publications, government or agency websites, scholarly works, or other sources of similar quality).

Format your assignment according to APA guidelines.

Do you believe that the CFO is the right person to protect a company’s ethical standards?  Why or why not? 

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  • While many companies are hiring chief compliance or chief ethical officers, other companies are lumping ethical concerns under the umbrella of the chief financial officer, because the Sarbanes-Oxley Act requires the CFO to abide by a set of ethical standards. 
  1. Do you believe that the CFO is the right person to protect a company’s ethical standards?
  2. Why or why not?
  3. Who else in a company would be better positioned to protect its ethical standards?

 Describe the difficulties in ethical leadership at Stacy’s farm.What type of conflict management style does Doug have? 

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  1. Review the Ethical Dilemma beginning on page 309 and answer the questions at the end of the case. Each question should be answered with one to two paragraphs. Each paragraph should contain three to five complex sentences.
  •           A.  Describe the difficulties in ethical leadership at Stacy’s farm.What type of conflict management style does Doug have?
    • B. Are there more constructive ways for him to handle conflicts with employees?
    • C. Describe the alternatives Stacy has answering that candidates question and the advantages and disadvantages of each.
  • 2. Write your answers to the following questions about Case 16, “Ethical Leadership at Cardinal IG: The Foundation of a Culture of Diversity,” Your answers should total one to two paragraphs for each question. Each paragraph should contain three to five complex sentences.
  • a.  Describe David Pinder’s background. What influence did his background have on his leadership style?
  • b. How has David Pinder embraced ethical leadership to create an ethical culture at Cardinal?
  • c. How has Cardinal’s principles and values shaped the ethical behavior of employees?
  • d. How has Cardinal empowered its employees to practice responsible and accountable leadership?
  • e.  What lessons can be learned from Cardinal?

· Review the information on the evidence hierarchy discussed in Chapter 2 of the course text, in the article, “Facilitating Access to Pre-Processed Research Evidence in Public Health,” and in the multimedia presentation “Hierarchy of Evidence Pyramid,” found in this week’s Learning Resources.

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For this Discussion, you will practice searching the literature to find evidence on a specific topic.

To prepare:

· Choose a simple search term(s) relating to a topic of your PICOT question.

· Review the information on the evidence hierarchy discussed in Chapter 2 of the course text, in the article, “Facilitating Access to Pre-Processed Research Evidence in Public Health,” and in the multimedia presentation “Hierarchy of Evidence Pyramid,” found in this week’s Learning Resources.

· Review the information on the Walden Library’s website, “Levels of evidence.” Take a few minutes to explore the different types of databases available for each level of evidence and focus on the meaning of filtered and non-filtered resources.

· Conduct a literature search in the Walden Library on your selected topic using the databases that you reviewed. Use at least one database for each of the three levels of filtered information and at least one unfiltered database. Record the number of hits that you find at each level of the hierarchy of evidence.

· Select one article from the results at each level of the hierarchy. Compare the articles based on the quality and depth of information. What would be the value of each resource if you were determining an evidence-based practice?

Post a summary of your search. Describe what topic you selected, the search term(s) that you used, and the number of results found at each level of the hierarchy. Compare the types of information found in the articles from different levels and the value of the information from each level. Highlight a useful tip that you could share with your colleagues about conducting an effective literature search.