In order to propose effective and efficient radiation protection and safety education in hospitals, an interview survey was conducted to identify factors that promote effective and efficient radiation protection and safety education, and a qualitative inductive analysis was performed. As a result, two core categories of factors factors promoting effective and efficient radiation protection and safety education in hospitals were derived: “Efficient management of education” and “Measures for effective education”. “Effective management of education” consists of four categories: ‘existence of an organizational culture to promote education’, ‘organization of departments and personnel in charge of education’, ‘rational practice of education’, and ‘efficient and thorough management of students’, and it was designed to achieve efficiency while maintaining a balance with reality.

The “Measures for Effective Education” section consists of the following six categories: “Devices for Educational System”, “Setting Educational Goals for Each Student”, “Measures for Educational Content and Methods”, “Measures for Teaching Materials”, “Measures for Educational Evaluation”, and “Review based on Feedback”.

Nurses often face ethical issues in their practice, but in many cases they find it difficult to act on these issues. Ethics education assists nurses to think through ethical quandaries and to proceed with the appropriate action. This paper reports on a nurse’s ethical concerns and the actions needed to create a better practice. In a master’s course in nursing ethics, a student who practiced outpatient radiology care expressed concern that patients’ sensitive information (e.g., diagnostic images that reveal private body parts) was routinely shared with third parties without their consent. The ethics professor suggested that the student explore her concerns by examining themes that included relevant ethical and legal concepts. The student concluded that the sharing of patients’ sensitive information with third parties lacking their consent is neither ethically nor legally justified. The student has gained confidence so that she can take action to safeguard the patients’ sensitive information.