SON5020 Sonographic professional skills and sonography of the breast and thyroid

When you finish this unit, you should be able to:

1. 1

   Interpret, compare and explain the key principles of medical law, medical ethics and the control of infection;

2. 2

   Identify and describe potential medico-legal and ethical situations arising from sonographic practice and the communication of sonographic findings to patients, radiologists or sonologists and referring medical practitioners;

3. 3

   Apply information gathering techniques, summarize information and record a clinical history;

4. 4

   Perform routine sonographic examinations of the breast and thyroid safely and to a standard and ethical conduct expected of a competent sonographer;

5. 5

   Identify and describe normal and abnormal sonographic appearances of the breast and thyroid and related artefacts;

6. 6

   Recognise when modifications to routine scanning approaches are required and describe the limitations of ultrasound in regards to imaging the breast and thyroid.