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Outpatient Infusion Volunteer

Henry Ford Cancer Institute, Detroit MI

· Rounding on patient’s rooms during treatment, making sure they are comfortable.

· Offering patients food, water, and speaking to them.

· Aiding nursing and cancer support staff with stocking equipment and materials.

RTT Mentoring Program

Wayne State University, Detroit MI

· Assisted junior students with their classroom and clinical studies

· Aided in answering questions and concerns regarding clinical and didactic studies

• Code of Ethics The first code of ethics is important to outline the professional expectations for therapists
• It’s necessary to know how you are expected to treat your patients and other professionals around you
• The second code of ethics is important because it highlights the fact that therapists always need to be working towards a better future and ensuring that their actions will result in the betterment of their patients and the field
• The third code is important because it ensures that patients will get excellent treatment regardless of the therapists’ thoughts and views, and will act without discrimination on the basis of sex, race, sexual orientation, etc
• It ensures that every patient can expect to be treated with the same great care
• This code of ethics is important because it highlights that therapists must always use the knowledge that they learned in school and at work, and the machine and all of its accessories in the appropriate manner
• This ensures that patients will be treated safely
• This code is important so that the therapists know to always make the best decisions in regard to patients, so they know they will be held responsible for their actions, so they always act diligently and with care
• This code is important so that therapists know that they must always take what patients say and use it to help them
• If a patient is complaining about symptoms or side effects of their cancer or treatment, it’s a therapist’s duty to help them by pointing them in the direction of someone who can help them with their care
• This code is important so that therapists always act to protect patients, themselves, and other members of the healthcare team by minimizing their exposure to radiation by always acting with care and expertise
• This is especially important because we do work with a potentially deadly machine and there is the risk of harm if we don’t work within the expected standard of practice
• This code is important because it protects the patients in regard to receiving great care
• It ensures that therapists will always act to protect the patients’ right to receive quality care while also practicing ethical ideas that boost the patient’s treatment
• This code is important because it protects the patient’s privacy
• The therapist must always handle patient charts with care and not divulge information to those who are not on a need-to-know basis
• In this way we give patients more control over their healthcare information and give them more humanity
• This code ensures that patients will always get the best and most up to date care through the continued learning of the therapist
• Our field is always changing as technology advances so its important that therapists keep up with the changing technology so that patients never get subpar treatment
• This code is important because it makes sure patients always get the safest and most precise care
• Using any substance at work that could impair judgement could result in the improper treatment of patients or result in harm to them or others, which needs to be avoided at all costs.

Basic Life Support

CPR & First Aid

MSRT