Nuclear Medicine » safe http://esnms.com Tue, 07 Feb 2012 02:09:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Students in Japan safe, but many worry about the spread of radiation to Indiana http://esnms.com/students-in-japan-safe-but-many-worry-about-the-spread-of-radiation-to-indiana/492/ http://esnms.com/students-in-japan-safe-but-many-worry-about-the-spread-of-radiation-to-indiana/492/#comments Thu, 24 Mar 2011 13:29:48 +0000 http://esnms.com/students-in-japan-safe-but-many-worry-about-the-spread-of-radiation-to-indiana/492/ Students in Japan safe, but many worry about the spread of radiation to Indiana
Southern California Edison officials acknowledged the San Onofre nuclear power plant was built to withstand a 7.0 quake, not the 8.9 quake that hit Japan.

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]]> http://esnms.com/students-in-japan-safe-but-many-worry-about-the-spread-of-radiation-to-indiana/492/feed/ 0 How is ingesting Nuclear medicine Safe? http://esnms.com/how-is-ingesting-nuclear-medicine-safe/192/ http://esnms.com/how-is-ingesting-nuclear-medicine-safe/192/#comments Mon, 01 Feb 2010 23:25:36 +0000 http://esnms.com/how-is-ingesting-nuclear-medicine-safe/192/ Next week I have to have a Thyroid Scan because my blood test showed that the numbers were somewhat high. I have t take nuclear medicine in a pill form and take some x-rays/pictures of the Thyroid.
My question of course is how is having radioactive material in your system safe when you arn’t really allowed to be near radio active stuff?

]]> http://esnms.com/how-is-ingesting-nuclear-medicine-safe/192/feed/ 5 Is it safe to take care of TB patients while pregnant? What about when a patient goes to Nuclear Medicine? http://esnms.com/is-it-safe-to-take-care-of-tb-patients-while-pregnant-what-about-when-a-patient-goes-to-nuclear-medicine/72/ http://esnms.com/is-it-safe-to-take-care-of-tb-patients-while-pregnant-what-about-when-a-patient-goes-to-nuclear-medicine/72/#comments Mon, 21 Dec 2009 02:39:41 +0000 http://esnms.com/?p=72 I’m a RN working on a pulmonary/medical surgical floor and I’m getting mixed reactions from co-workers about who I can and can’t take care of. Some of my concerns are nuclear medicine when the patient comes back reactive, TB patients, those with shingles, certain medications, etc?

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