Blog 26- Radiation

I am glad this is a topic for this week.  Radiation from cell phones, iPads, laptops, pretty much any electronic item is highly underrated.  As nurses I do not think we realize how much radiation we are surrounded by each day.  For example, nurses are forced to carry phones at work.  At my work, we use “old school” phones to contact each other, but in the coming months we are upgrading to using iPhones instead.  These phones carry and omit a lot of radiation.  Most of us sleep with our cell phones next to our head and spend hours talking on the phone with our phones in one ear.  This is direct contact and radiation to our brains.  We can preach to our patients about the dangers of radiation, but in reality, we expose them and ourselves to radiation almost every moment of every day.  This topic needs more attention.  More research needs to be done regarding the dangers associated with constant radiation (CANCER).