(1) Has
completed seven hundred hours of training and experience, including a minimum
of two hundred hours of classroom and laboratory training, in basic
radionuclide handling techniques applicable to the medical use of unsealed
radioactive material requiring a written directive. The training and experience
must include:
(a) Classroom and laboratory
training in the following areas:
(i) Radiation
physics and instrumentation;
(ii)
Radiation protection;
(iii)
Mathematics pertaining to the use and measurement of radioactivity;
(iv) Chemistry of radioactive material for
medical use; and
(v) Radiation
biology; and
(b) Work
experience, under the supervision of an authorized user who meets the
requirements in this rule or rule
3701:1-58-21
of the Administrative Code, or equivalent United States nuclear regulatory
commission or agreement state requirements. A supervising authorized user, who
meets the requirements in paragraph (B) of this rule, must also have experience
in administering dosages in the same dosage category or categories, such as
paragraph (B)(1)(b)(vi) of this rule, as the individual requesting authorized
user status. The work experience must involve:
(i) Ordering, receiving, and unpacking
radioactive materials safely and performing the related radiation
surveys;
(ii) Performing quality
control procedures on instruments used to determine the activity of dosages,
and performing checks for proper operation of survey meters;
(iii) Calculating, measuring, and safely
preparing patient or human research subject dosages;
(iv) Using administrative controls to prevent
a medical event involving the use of unsealed radioactive material;
(v) Using procedures to contain spilled
radioactive material safely and using proper decontamination procedures;
and
(vi) Administering dosages of
radioactive drugs to patients or human research subjects from the three
categories in this paragraph. Radioactive drugs containing radionuclides in
categories not included in this paragraph are regulated under rule
3701:1-58-72
of the Administrative Code. This work experience must involve a minimum of
three cases in each of the following categories for which the individual is
requesting authorized user status:
(a) Oral
administration of less than or equal to
1.22
gigabecquerels (thirty-three millicuries) of sodium iodide I-131, for which a
written directive is required;
(b)
Oral administration of greater than
1.22
gigabecquerels, (thirty-three millicuries) of sodium iodide I-131. Experience
with at least three cases in this paragraph also satisfies the requirement in
paragraph (B)(1)(b)(vi)(a) of this rule;
(c) Parenteral administration of any
radioactive drug that contains a radionuclide that is primarily used for its
electron emission, beta radiation characteristics, alpha radiation
characteristics, or photon energy of less than one hundred fifty keV, for which
a written directive is required; and