Locums and monitoring badges ?

Re: Locums and monitoring badges ?

Nick Shackleton — Sat, 29 Mar 2014 22:09:03 GMT

I think both employer and employee should both take Equal responsibility for his or her radiation protection

Re: Locums and monitoring badges ?

Laura Ringsell — Fri, 28 Mar 2014 18:51:12 GMT

Thank you so much...I thought this might be the case and the cumulative dose and monitoring of that was the thing that concerned me when locums move around or in a large practice with multiple X-rays happening on one day by multiple locums there is no way of tracking their own personal exposure on one 'locum' badge. Thank you Nick for the JAK info, I asked our current supplier who said that it was the responsibility of the practice and they didn't supply individual badges e.g. They could supply us with a locum badge which they change quarterly but we would then be responsible for trying to track down any 'readings' that came back - nightmare. I will inform our current locum on all of this next week. Glad to have started a discussion on something new and useful !!!

Re: Locums and monitoring badges ?

Nick Shackleton — Thu, 27 Mar 2014 19:50:16 GMT

[quote user="SmegSlayer"]

A lot of practices have a couple of locum monitoring badges spare for a vet and nurse. As a locum I've always had one provided for me that I use throughout my stay at the practice. As long as the xray log book is filled in correctly, it's easy to trace back to who was wearing what badge on a particular date.

[/quote] As it only gives the cumulative dose over a two month period you won't be able to pin point when the exposure occurred.

Re: Locums and monitoring badges ?

SmegSlayer — Thu, 27 Mar 2014 14:34:39 GMT

[quote user="Alison Clare Hickman"]

Hi,

As I am quite new to locuming (as of Feb this year) this issue is of current interest to me!

I am taking personal responsibility for my monitoring as I will then be able to see my cumulative total (one would hope it would be nil result, of course...). Although (some) practices have offered me a locum badge I've said, thanks but no, as the on-going recording of any exposure/my individual running total wouldn't necessarily be very clear to me after I'd left the place. Mostly, the submission of the 'locum' badge to the monitoring company would occur after I had left the practice, so unless I asked that practice what the result was, I wouldn't know if there was a concern. As Nick says, it's best to be personally responsible for your health & safety. I don't want to risk it for an irradiated biscuit, haha!

It does raise the following question in my mind; when we change practices (even say from one permanent position to another permanent position) should we be taking our 'running total' with us to the new practice?

Ali h

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cumulative exposure record would be nice but as i am part time I wouldn't be able to financially afford the costs involved for sending my own badge off.

We were never told any result in practice when i was permanent staff unless there was an abnormal result so it would be up to the practice to inform whoever was wearing that badge during that time. I'm not unduly worried about it- I take all necessary radiation precautions when involved with xrays etc. My old head nurse was exposed due to a fault with the xray machine while she was positioning an animal and was right under the beam the machine went off by itself and her badge came back with no exposure. These days I use a microwave far more than an xray machine but that radiation isn't monitored.

with insurance etc locuming is getting to be not worth the extra pay rate.

Re: Locums and monitoring badges ?

Alison Clare Hickman — Thu, 27 Mar 2014 12:29:11 GMT

Hi,

As I am quite new to locuming (as of Feb this year) this issue is of current interest to me!

Ali h

Re: Locums and monitoring badges ?

SmegSlayer — Thu, 27 Mar 2014 12:11:52 GMT

Re: Locums and monitoring badges ?

Nick Shackleton — Wed, 26 Mar 2014 20:10:59 GMT

Locums should be responsible for their own monitoring badge!! I'm genuinely worried about people disregard for radiation. Just cos you can't see it don't mean it ain't gonna hurt you. JAK offer a radiation monitoring service. Either for a whole practice or just single monitoring badges https://shop.jakmarketing.co.uk/product_detail.php?prod_id=5145&catid=199