Radiation Protection for Non-Radiographers
For everyone who works near imaging equipment without being trained in it.
Program overview
Theatre staff, cardiac catheter laboratory teams, dental staff, orthopaedic teams and ward nurses are routinely exposed to ionising radiation without ever receiving radiation protection training — which is written for radiographers. This course covers the essentials for everyone else: how radiation causes harm, dose and its measurement, justification and optimisation, the practical trio of time, distance and shielding, scatter behaviour in an operating theatre, protection during mobile and fluoroscopic imaging, pregnancy, and dosimetry.
Why this program
Written for the staff radiation training usually skips
Scatter behaviour taught practically
Covers theatre, cath lab, dental and ward mobile imaging
Includes pregnancy and dosimetry
Who it is for
Program objectives
- Explain how ionising radiation causes biological harm
- Describe dose quantities and typical exposures in context
- Apply the principles of justification and optimisation
- Use time, distance and shielding effectively
- Predict scatter behaviour in a procedure room
- Apply pregnancy precautions and dosimetry requirements
Learning outcomes
- Apply time, distance and shielding to a described procedure
- Predict the highest-scatter position in a described theatre setup
- Evaluate a described practice against optimisation principles
- Select appropriate protective equipment for a described role
- Apply pregnancy precautions to a described situation
- Interpret a dosimetry report at a basic level
Curriculum
Module 1: How Radiation Causes Harm
1 lessonsHow Radiation Causes HarmPreview
Deterministic and stochastic effects, in plain terms.
Module 2: Dose and Context
1 lessons- Dose and Context
Module 3: Justification and Optimisation
1 lessons- Justification and Optimisation
Module 4: Time, Distance and Shielding
1 lessons- Time, Distance and Shielding
Module 5: Scatter in the Room
1 lessons- Scatter in the Room
Module 6: Pregnancy and Dosimetry
1 lessons- Pregnancy and Dosimetry
Duration and structure
6 lessons across 6 modules. Duration is expressed in study hours.
What you receive
This certificate confirms completion of Radiation Protection for Non-Radiographers. Duration is expressed in study hours.
Delivery format
- Self-paced — start any time.
- Study on any device.
- Lifetime access to the version you enrolled in.