Florida Administrative Code › 64 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH › 64E - Division of Environmental Health › Chapter 64E-3 - RADIOLOGIC TECHNOLOGY › Section 64E-3.002 - Definitions

Current through Reg. 50, No. 138; July 16, 2024
(1) "Approved educational or training
				program" means a program which is recognized and accepted by the American
				Registry of Radiologic Technologists or the Nuclear Medicine Technology
				Certification Board.
(2) "General
				diagnostic radiographic and general fluoroscopic equipment" means any medical
				diagnostic X-ray system except computed tomography systems which, by design, is
				not limited to examinations of specific anatomical regions.
(3) "General diagnostic radiographic and
				general fluoroscopic procedures" means those procedures other than angiography,
				arteriography, tomography, computed tomography, mobile imaging, portable
				imaging, digital vascular imaging, bronchography, fistulography, sialography,
				mammography, arthrography, lymphangiography, splenography, cholangiography,
				procedures which involve the use of contrast, special procedures for the
				reproductive system, and those procedures performed in an operating
				room.
(4) "Physical presence" means
				within the facility housing the equipment used by a basic X-ray machine
				operator.
(5) "Positioning" means
				the correct placement of the human body part to the image detector or radiation
				source, and the correct alignment of the radiation equipment to the landmarks
				of the body, and the major anatomical structures.
(6) "Rule" means chapter 64E-3,
				F.A.C.
(7) "Technique" means the
				equipment setting and procedure protocol used to produce a diagnostic image or
				to accomplish the desired results.
(8) "Walk-in emergency center" means a
				facility which holds itself out to the public through published advertising as
				a walk-in emergency center, emergi-center, urgi-center, or walk-in center;
				indicates to the public that the facility is open to the public primarily for
				the purpose of providing emergency medical care; or any facility which uses any
				other title, designation or advertising indicating the same; and is not
				licensed under chapter 395 or 641, F.S., or rules adopted thereunder.
(9) "Practice of radiologic technology" means
				the performance of activities requiring special knowledge and skills, including
				positioning, technique, safe operation of radiation equipment and radiation
				protection.
(a) For a general radiographer,
				the practice is further specified in the "Radiography Practice Standards"
				issued June 25, 2017, by the American Society of Radiologic Technologists,
				which is incorporated herein by reference and can obtained at
http://www.flrules.org/Gateway/reference.asp?No=Ref-09916
or
http://www.doh.state.fl.us/mqa/rad-tech
.
(b) For a nuclear medicine technologist, the
				practice is further specified in the "Nuclear Medicine Practice Standards"
				issued June 25, 2017, by the American Society of Radiologic Technologists,
				which is incorporated herein by reference and can obtained at
http://www.flrules.org/Gateway/reference.asp?No=Ref-09917
or
http://www.doh.state.fl.us/mqa/rad-tech
.
(c) For a radiation therapy technologist, the
				practice is further specified in the "Radiation Therapy Practice Standards"
				issued June 25, 2017, by the American Society of Radiologic Technologists,
				which is incorporated herein by reference and can be obtained at
http://www.flrules.org/Gateway/reference.asp?No=Ref-09918
or
http://www.doh.state.fl.us/mqa/rad-tech
.