Radiation Protection for Non-Radiographers

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. Who it is for

Nurse · Physician · Allied Health · Dentist · Radiographer

4. 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

5. 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

6. Curriculum

1. Module 1: How Radiation Causes Harm

   • How Radiation Causes Harm

2. Module 2: Dose and Context

   • Dose and Context

3. Module 3: Justification and Optimisation

   • Justification and Optimisation

4. Module 4: Time, Distance and Shielding

   • Time, Distance and Shielding

5. Module 5: Scatter in the Room

   • Scatter in the Room

6. Module 6: Pregnancy and Dosimetry

   • Pregnancy and Dosimetry

7. Duration and structure

Total study hours: 3 — 2.5h content + 0.5h assessment. Duration is expressed in study hours only.

9. What you receive

This certificate confirms completion of Radiation Protection for Non-Radiographers. Duration is expressed in study hours.

10. Delivery format

Self-paced · start any time · any device · lifetime access to the enrolled version.