Performance and Responsibility Guidelines for the Nuclear Medicine Technologist

Abstract

Objective: The skills of individual nuclear medicine technologists vary widely across the nation.

Methods: In order to ensure that technologists have the same knowledge base, the Socio-Economic Affairs Committee of the Technologist Section of the Society of Nuclear Medicine developed a set of guidelines compiled from various sources.

Results: As complete as the following guidelines may be, by the time they are published, they may be already partially obsolete in the ever-changing field of nuclear medicine technology.

Conclusions: These guidelines are not to be considered as rules that a technologist must adhere to, but rather as a checklist to enable the technologist to have a broader understanding of his or her profession.