@article{oai:repo.qst.go.jp:00049347,
 author = {清水, 裕子 and 飯田, 治三 and 根井, 充 and Yuko, Shimizu and Haruzo, Iida and Mitsuru, Nenoi},
 issue = {1},
 journal = {Journal of Radiology Nursing},
 month = {Mar},
 note = {The National Institute of Radiological Sciences (NIRS) in Japan has offered a training course as postgraduate education for nurses in radiological medicine since 1994 because radiation protection and radiation effects have not been included in subjects in the official guidelines for nursing schools but are strongly required as important knowledge for nurses. By 2017, the course had been held 102 times and 3230 trainees had participated. To examine if participants thought there was a need for the education, a questionnaire survey was carried out after the course targeting 397 trainees who participated in the courses from 2015 to 2017. Their average age was 39.2 years old. Among them, 81.9% were general nurses, 17.6% held an administrative position, 44.8% had 1-5 years’ experience in radiation medicine and 83.7% had received training in radiation in the workplace or elsewhere before participating in the course. 91.7% participated to obtain knowledge of radiation basics and 65.2% did to acquire the capability to respond to patients’ questions. The average evaluation score of the training course was 90.2 out of 100. These findings indicate that presently, there is still a high demand for postgraduate education of nurses in radiological medicine and that an advanced course needs to be offered in the future.},
 pages = {33--37},
 title = {Past, Present and Future of Postgraduate Nursing Education in Radilogy at the National Institute of Radiological Sciences in Japan},
 volume = {38},
 year = {2019}
}