ARRT Radiography Patient Care Practice Questions
Patient Care · 33 of the 200 scored questions in ARRT’s content specifications
230 questions across all eight subcategories in 230 minutes, with a score for Patient Care so you know where you stand.
Free Patient Care drillA patient clearly refuses an exam, but the radiographer performs it anyway. Which tort has the radiographer committed?
Patient Interactions and Management on the ARRT radiography exam
Patient Care is one subcategory, Patient Interactions and Management, with 33 of the 200 scored questions on the ARRT radiography exam. It covers everything around the exposure: confirming the right patient and order, consent and rights, communicating with patients of every age, moving them safely, watching their condition, responding to emergencies, preventing infection and giving contrast media safely.
- Share of the exam
- 33 of the 200 scored questions now; 31 from March 1, 2027
- Our drill
- 10 questions from 78 Patient Care questions, untimed, an explanation after every answer; one free attempt, unlimited with a pass
What Patient Interactions and Management questions test
- Ethical and legal aspects: informed, oral and implied consent, HIPAA, the Patient Care Partnership, advance directives, negligence and malpractice, respondeat superior, documentation and the ARRT Standards of Ethics
- Communication and patient education: language barriers, age, stages of grief, explaining the procedure and preparation instructions
- Ergonomics and monitoring: body mechanics, transfers, slide boards and lifts, oxygen and IV lines, tubes and catheters, vital sign ranges and fall prevention
- Medical emergencies: allergic reactions, cardiac and respiratory arrest, trauma, seizures and diabetic reactions
- Infection control: the chain of infection, standard precautions, contact, droplet and airborne precautions, and asepsis
- Pharmacology: contrast media types, contraindications and lab values (BUN, creatinine, eGFR), routes of administration, extravasation and mild, moderate and severe reactions
Sit the full exam under the real clock
230 questions across all eight subcategories in 230 minutes, with a score for Patient Care so you know where you stand.
Free Patient Care drillHow to study it
- Learn the normal adult vital sign ranges as a set: pulse 60 to 100, respirations 12 to 20, temperature about 98.6°F, blood pressure below 120/80.
- Match each precaution to its diseases: airborne for tuberculosis, measles and chickenpox; droplet for influenza and pertussis; contact for C. difficile and MRSA.
- Know the order of exams when contrast is involved: studies without contrast and iodinated studies before barium, and lower GI before upper GI.
- Take the Patient Care drill until you score 80% or better.
Common questions
How many patient care questions are on the ARRT radiography exam?
Thirty-three of the 200 scored questions under the specifications in force through February 28, 2027, and 31 under the specifications that take effect March 1, 2027.
Are contrast media questions part of patient care?
Yes. ARRT lists pharmacology under Patient Care: contrast types and properties, contraindications, lab values, administration, dose calculation and the radiographer’s response to reactions.
230 questions across all eight subcategories in 230 minutes, with a score for Patient Care so you know where you stand.
Free Patient Care drillThe other ARRT radiography content areas
Sources
- ARRT: Radiography Examination Content Specifications, in force through February 28, 2027 (PDF)
- ARRT: Radiography Examination Content Specifications, effective March 1, 2027 (PDF)
- ARRT: 2026 Primary Eligibility Pathway Handbook: exam format, scoring, exam window and attempts (PDF)
- ARRT: Fees
- ARRT: Annual Exam Report 2025: passing score and approximate percent correct (PDF)
- ARRT: Updated Radiography documents (May 1, 2026), changes effective March 1, 2027
- NCRP Report No. 116, Limitation of Exposure to Ionizing Radiation
Original practice questions for exam preparation, written to the ARRT Radiography Examination Content Specifications, not ARRT exam questions. Independent practice, not affiliated with or endorsed by The American Registry of Radiologic Technologists (ARRT) or Pearson VUE. ARRT and R.T. are trademarks of the ARRT.