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SNM revises guidelines for Nuc Med Technologists.(Society of Nuclear Medicine)
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Imaging Economics
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October 1, 2007
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The Technologist Section of the Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNM), Reston, Va, recently issued a revision of the "Scope of Practice for the Nuclear Medicine Technologist 2007." The revised set of guidelines focuses primarily on public protection and acknowledgement of the evolving nature of technology and science, defining a technologist's procedures, actions, and processes in nuclear medicine and molecular imaging.
"Scope of practice is a fluid concept," said SNMTS President David Gilmore, program director for the school of nuclear medicine technology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston. "It changes as knowledge and technology advance and medical imaging ...