Nebraska Administrative Code › Topic - HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES SYSTEM › Title 180 - CONTROL OF RADIATION › Chapter 7 - MEDICAL USE OF RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL › Section 180-7-026 - PROVISIONS FOR EXPERIENCED RADIATION SAFETY OFFICER, TELETHERAPY OR MEDICAL PHYSICIST, AUTHORIZED MEDICAL PHYSICIST, AUTHORIZED USER, NUCLEAR PHARMACIST AND AUTHORIZED NUCLEAR PHARMACIST

Current through June 17, 2024
026.01
LICENSE OR PERMIT.
An individual identified on an NRC
  or Agreement State license or a permit issued by an NRC or Agreement State
  broad scope licensee or master material license permit or by a master material
  license permittee of broad scope as an RSO, a teletherapy or medical physicist,
  an authorized medical physicist, a nuclear pharmacist or an authorized nuclear
  pharmacist on or before the effective date of these regulations need not comply
  with the training requirements of 180 NAC 7-022 through 7-024, respectively,
  other than RSOs and authorized medical physicists identified in this paragraph
  must meet the training requirements in 180 NAC 7-022(D) or 7-0234(C) as
  appropriate, for any material or uses for which they were not authorized prior
  to this date.
026.02
CERTIFICATION.
Any individual certified by the
  American Board of Health Physics in Comprehensive Health Physics; American
  Board of Radiology; American Board of Nuclear Medicine; American Board of
  Science in Nuclear Medicine; Board of Pharmaceutical Specialties in Nuclear
  Pharmacy; American Board of Medical Physics in radiation oncology physics;
  Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada in nuclear medicine;
  American Osteopathic Board of Radiology; or American Osteopathic Board of
  Nuclear Medicine on or before October 24, 2005, need not comply with the
  training requirements of 180 NAC 7-022 to be identified as a radiation safety
  officer or as an associate on an NRC or an Agreement State license or NRC
  master material license permit for those materials and uses that these
  individuals performed on or before October 24, 2005.
026.03
PRIOR
  CERTIFICATION.
Any individual certified by the American Board of
  Radiology in therapeutic radiological physics, Roentgen ray and gamma ray
  physics, x-ray and radium physics, or radiological physics, or certified by the
  American Board of Medical Physics in radiation oncology physics, on or before
  October 24, 2005, need not comply with the training requirements for an
  authorized medical physicist described in 180 NAC 7-023, for those materials
  and uses that these individuals performed on or before October 24,
  2005.
026.04
IDENTIFIED
  AS AN AUTHORIZED USER.
Physicians, dentists, or podiatrists
  identified as authorized users for the medical use of radioactive material on a
  license issued by the NRC, an Agreement State or the Department, a permit
  issued by an NRC master material licensee, a permit issued by an NRC, an
  Agreement State, or the Department broad scope licensee, or on a permit issued
  by an NRC master material license broad scope permittee before the effective
  date of these regulations, who perform only those medical uses for which they
  were authorized on or before that date need not comply with the training
  requirements 180 NAC 7-041 through 7-084.
026.05
NOT IDENTIFIED AS AN
  AUTHORIZED USER.
Physicians, dentists, or podiatrists not
  identified as authorized users for the medical use of radioactive material on a
  license issued by the NRC or an Agreement State, a permit issued by an NRC
  master material licensee, a permit issued by an NRC or an Agreement State broad
  scope licensee, or a permit issued by an NRC master material broad scope
  license on or before October 24, 2005, need not comply with the training
  requirements for those materials and uses that these individuals performed on
  or before October 24, 2005, as follows:
(A)
  For uses authorized under 180 NAC 7-041 or 7-044 or oral administration of
  sodium iodide I-131 requiring a written directive for imaging and localization
  purposes, a physician who was certified on or before October 24, 2005, in
  nuclear medicine by the American Board of Nuclear Medicine; diagnostic
  radiology by the American Board of Radiology; diagnostic radiology or radiology
  by the American Osteopathic Board of xRadiology; nuclear medicine by the Royal
  College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada; or American Osteopathic Board of
  Nuclear Medicine in nuclear medicine;
(B) For uses authorized under 180 NAC 7-048,
  a physician who was certified on or before October 24, 2005, by the American
  Board of Nuclear Medicine; the American Board of Radiology in radiology,
  therapeutic radiology, or radiation oncology; nuclear medicine by the Royal
  College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada; or the American Osteopathic Board
  of Radiology after 1984;
(C) For
  uses authorized under 180 NAC 7-055 or 7-067, a physician who was certified on
  or before October 24, 2005, in radiology, therapeutic radiology or radiation
  oncology by the American Board of Radiology; radiation oncology by the American
  Osteopathic Board of Radiology; radiology, with specialization in radiotherapy,
  as a British "Fellow of the Faculty of Radiology" or "Fellow of the Royal
  College of Radiology"; or therapeutic radiology by the Canadian Royal College
  of Physicians and Surgeons; and
(D)
  For uses authorized under 180 NAC 7-065, a physician who was certified on or
  before October 24, 2005, in radiology, diagnostic radiology, therapeutic
  radiology, or radiation oncology by the American Board of Radiology; nuclear
  medicine by the American Board of Nuclear Medicine; diagnostic radiology or
  radiology by the American Osteopathic Board of Radiology; or nuclear medicine
  by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.