background: universal precautions are not well understood or implemented by health care practitioners, though crucial in the prevention and transmission of blood-borne pathogens like hiv. objective: to assess knowledge, awareness and compliance of universal precautions among health care workers at the university hospital of the west indies, jamaica. method: a cross-sectional survey was conducte...

The American Registry of Radiologic Technologists (ARRT) is the largest national, voluntary certification organization for radiologic technologists, with 235,000 registered technologists and an annual examination volume of 20,000 to 25,000. The ARRT's board is appointed by the ACR (four members) and the American Society of Radiologic Technologists (five members). The ARRT is in the process of d...

BACKGROUND Errors by nuclear medicine technologists during the preparation of radiopharmaceuticals or at other times can cause patient harm and may reflect the impact of interruptions, busy work environments and deficient systems or processes. We aimed to: (a) characterise the rate and nature of interruptions technologists experience and (b) identify strategies that support safety. METHODS We...

Purpose Educational technologists make significant contributions to the development, organisational embedding and service provision of technologyenhanced learning (TEL) environments, which are key enablers for mass access to flexible higher education. Given the increasing centrality of this role, we advocate that institutions investigate sustainable career structures for educational technologis...

A structured questionnaire/interview was designed to explore demographic, personal, occupational and occupational health factors as well as recreational physical activities which can affect X-ray technologists' musculoskeletal symptoms. This questionnaire was piloted for clarity and validity. Subsequently, a random sample of 20 volunteer participants (18 female, 2 male) from two University hosp...

OBJECTIVES It is recommended that magnetic resonance (MR) technologists should not work alone due to potential occupational health risks although lone working is legally acceptable. The objective of this study was to investigate the current situation of lone working MR technologists in Western Australia (WA) and any issue against the regulations. MATERIALS AND METHODS A questionnaire regardin...