Abstract
Caring is a significant element in the healthcare profession, including sonography, and is associated with vital patient outcomes in medicine, such as adherence to treatment and symptom relief (Zamanzadeh, Azimzadeh, Rahmani & Valizadeh, 2010:10; Quirk, Mazor, Haley, Philbin, Fischer, Sullivan & Hatem, 2008:359). Paulson (2004:359) describes patient care and caring as two different concepts. Patient care is associated with physiological and medical care. Conversely, caring for patients is described as a humanistic manner of sincerely caring for and interacting with patients (Quirk et al., 2008:359). Several studies have been done on caring in nursing and therapy radiography, but there was no evidence during the literature review that explored caring in sonography...
M.Tech. (Radiography)