Comments on: Nurses who work with radiation cancer patients? http://www.thewordishope.com/nurses-who-work-with-radiation-cancer-patients/ Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 06 Sep 2010 00:42:48 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: B,cancer survivor http://www.thewordishope.com/nurses-who-work-with-radiation-cancer-patients/comment-page-1/#comment-1293 B,cancer survivor Sat, 31 Oct 2009 15:08:13 +0000 http://www.thewordishope.com/nurses-who-work-with-radiation-cancer-patients/#comment-1293 I don't work in radiation and never did, but I do know the courses needed to be a nurse which is the first step to radiology. In fact, they are two different things. I don't know of any nurse that works in radiology. It is a field in itself. I could be wrong, but I do know, you need chemistry, biology, anatomy, as far as math, simple fractions is all we dealt with. Now, everything is pre-measured for the nurse, We used to have to count drips as they went into an IV. For instance. a DR would order an IV drip at 20 drops a minute. We used to have to set up the IV and literally count the drops while watching the minute hand on our watches. Now, no one has to do that because the machines do it for you. They didn't teach Microbiology when I was in high school but you do learn it in Nursing school. Good luck. Choose well. I don’t work in radiation and never did, but I do know the courses needed to be a nurse which is the first step to radiology. In fact, they are two different things. I don’t know of any nurse that works in radiology. It is a field in itself. I could be wrong, but I do know, you need chemistry, biology, anatomy, as far as math, simple fractions is all we dealt with. Now, everything is pre-measured for the nurse, We used to have to count drips as they went into an IV. For instance. a DR would order an IV drip at 20 drops a minute. We used to have to set up the IV and literally count the drops while watching the minute hand on our watches. Now, no one has to do that because the machines do it for you. They didn’t teach Microbiology when I was in high school but you do learn it in Nursing school. Good luck. Choose well.

]]> By: RadTech - BAS RT(R)(ARRT) http://www.thewordishope.com/nurses-who-work-with-radiation-cancer-patients/comment-page-1/#comment-1294 RadTech - BAS RT(R)(ARRT) Sat, 31 Oct 2009 15:08:13 +0000 http://www.thewordishope.com/nurses-who-work-with-radiation-cancer-patients/#comment-1294 Do you want to give the radiation to the patients? If so, that's not a nurse, it's a radiation therapist. •For names and addresses of accredited schools in radiography and radiation therapy, contact the Joint Review Committee on Education in Radiologic Technology, 20 N. Wacker Drive, Suite 2850, Chicago, IL 60606-3182, or visit its Web site at http://www.jrcert.org/cert/Search.jsp . •The Web site of the American Registry of Radiologic Technologists also includes a list of accredited programs in radiography, radiation therapy and nuclear medicine. Go to http://arrt.org/index.html?content=nd/listOfSchools.ndm/listSchools&iframe=yes . Do you want to give the radiation to the patients? If so, that’s not a nurse, it’s a radiation therapist.

•For names and addresses of accredited schools in radiography and radiation therapy, contact the Joint Review Committee on Education in Radiologic Technology, 20 N. Wacker Drive, Suite 2850, Chicago, IL 60606-3182, or visit its Web site at http://www.jrcert.org/cert/Search.jsp .

•The Web site of the American Registry of Radiologic Technologists also includes a list of accredited programs in radiography, radiation therapy and nuclear medicine. Go to http://arrt.org/index.html?content=nd/listOfSchools.ndm/listSchools&iframe=yes .

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