The College of Nursing at the University of Baghdad has recently organized an electronic scientific workshop entitled (Radiation, Environment and Human Health) via the Google Meet service, in the presence of a number of professors and postgraduate students aimed to fully define radiation and its natural and industrial sources as well as its uses in medicine and industry, effects of radiation on the cell and how to affect it by explaining the meaning of random and inevitable effects and the stages of cellular effect of radiation and diseases that appear as a result of exposure to it in addition to prevention.
The workshop included refereeing to two main topics, the first of which is an introduction to radiation, its natural and industrial sources, uses in medicine, industry, agriculture and units of measurement, while the second part included a discussion of the effects of radiation on human health, random and inevitable effects, stages of cellular effect of radiation and diseases that appear as a result of exposure to the above-permissible limits of radiation. The lecturers recommended reducing the time of exposure to radiation sources as much as possible and leaving the largest possible distance between workers and the radiation source, such as X-ray tubes and wearing special clothes to prevent the risk of radiation used in the treatment of diseases such as alpha, beta and gamma rays, X-rays, and the need to use protective tools such as shields, protective curtains, lead aprons, lead jackets, glass glasses, protective screens, etc., in commitment to the principles and laws of protecting workers in health care whether being doctors, nurses, technicians or others employed in health institutions. It is noteworthy that the area of use of radiation should be considered as an area subject to supervision and control, also there is an obligation to measure the percentage of radiation every 3 months or 6 periodically, adhere to the maximum safe limit of nuclear radiation that must not be exceeded (5 rem per day), where the Roentgen equivalent man (REM) is a measurement unit of absorbed radiation equivalent to one Roentgen of X-rays.