Radiation Oncology

Very little is currently available related to determining nurse staffing in radiation oncology.

The American College of Radiation Oncology - Red Book Guidelines for The ACRO Practice Accreditation Program (2009) – General staffing recommendations (p. 18) call for 1 nurse for 200-300 new patients per year.  The Guidelines are available online.

The American Society of Radiation Oncology is assembling a focus group look at the “Blue Book” which looks The Blue at staffing patterns in radiation oncology.  More detail will be added when their work is done.