Location
The Society & College of Radiographers HQ207 Providence Square Mill Street
London,
SE1 2EWUnited Kingdom
THIS EVENT IS NOW FULLY BOOKED BUT WE PLAN TO REPEAT IT. KEEP AN EYE ON THE WEBSITE AND FUTURE ISSUES OF SYNERGY NEWS FOR DETAILS.
Are you a practising sonographer? Do you recognise any of the following:
- A pregnant woman and her partner get really angry with you because the local protocol precludes scanning for fetal sexing; then you discover they’ve lost a child to a sex-linked condition.
- A female patient demands a chaperone for the trans-vaginal ultrasound examination you feel is necessary to make a full assessment of her pelvic structures; there’s no-one available and the local protocol doesn’t support the need for a chaperone where both patient and sonographer are the same sex.
- You are scanning a fourteen year old female with acute abdominal pain and clinical suspicion of an ectopic pregnancy when the girl’s accompanying mother remarks ‘I didn’t know you could see appendicitis on a scan’.
The above are just a few examples of the ‘routine’ ethical dilemmas and questions that sonographers face in their working lives. This course will help you find a way through such issues and enable both you and your patients/clients to feel that the scan experience was as good as it could be.
