New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 10 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH › Chapter II - Administrative Rules and Regulations › Subchapter M - X-ray Technology And Chiropractic Use Of X-ray › Part 89 - Practice Of Radiologic Technology › Educational Programs in Radiologic Technology › Section 89.5 - Students

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
(a) A sponsoring
					 institution shall report in writing to the department the name of each student
					 who has successfully completed the radiologic technology course of study within
					 30 days of such completion.
(b) A
					 sponsoring institution shall ensure that students do not apply radiation to a
					 human being for clinical practice until they have completed instruction in, and
					 have understanding of radiation safety as it pertains to protecting themselves,
					 patients and personnel from unnecessary exposure to radiation. This instruction
					 shall include practical experience using phantoms or other non-human devices.
					 The sponsoring institution shall ensure that the initial applications of
					 radiation to human beings by students shall be under the personal supervision
					 of a radiologist, radiographer, radiation therapist or nuclear medicine
					 technologists, as applicable, until the student's performance has been
					 evaluated as satisfactory.
(c)
					 Notwithstanding the requirements of section
					 16.11(a)(1) 
					 of the State Sanitary Code, a sponsoring institution shall provide all students
					 with a personal radiation monitoring device during their radiologic technology
					 course of study. The sponsoring institution shall ensure that student exposure
					 to radiation shall be within the occupational limits prescribed by the
					 applicable regulations and shall routinely inform students of their radiation
					 exposure readings.
(d) A sponsoring
					 institution shall ensure that its students apply radiation to human beings only
					 at its clinical facilities and only for the purpose of clinical practice in the
					 use of medical imaging or radiation therapy equipment.
(e) A sponsoring institution shall ensure
					 that students enrolled in and attending a radiologic technology program shall
					 wear at all times, while at any of the sponsoring institution's clinical
					 facilities, identification tags that conspicuously shows their name and title
					 as "STUDENT, Radiographer" or "STUDENT, Radiation Therapist," or "STUDENT,
					 Nuclear Medicine Technologist," as appropriate. A sponsoring institution shall
					 issue identification tags only to enrolled students and shall collect the
					 identification tag of each student who graduates or withdraws from the
					 school.
(f) A sponsoring
					 institution may assign students to clinical practice on evenings, nights,
					 weekends or legal holidays, provided that such clinical assignments:
(1) shall be given only to students in the
					 final six months of training;
(2)
					 shall not exceed a total of 80 hours;
(3) shall not result in the student attending
					 in excess of 8 hours in a 24-hour period of combined classroom and clinical
					 assignments; and
(4) shall be based
					 upon a written plan and adequately maintained records, which include the
					 designation of a radiologic technologist to supervise each such
					 assignment.