This is as stupid as bringing live firearms into the make believe world of a movie set. Theres no reason for this and its not like it takes special training to know what a stupid idea this is.
At what point do we ask how much of this with MRIs are we going to put up with? These stories arent all that uncommon.
Somewhere along the line we need to realize that this has nothing to do with poor training. When these kinds of things happen repeatedly the problem becomes higher level management and those that oversee and create rules for fields and industry.
While the global population crisis isnt expected to be as bad in the United States as elsewhere it will definitely show up in American nursing as GenX begins retiring the “properly trained” number of American nurses is going to crash. Mills & Zs arent going to be able to handle the stresses previous gens did and will either quit or be out half the time on mental health breaks and this will require even further low level foreign staff with even more questionable training.
These things like tanks, poles, and wheel chairs should long ago have been switched to being produced in fiberglass, aluminum, or other materials. Hospitals could paint this equipment...MMMMagenta for MMMRI(?)...and designate areas near the MRI labs as only allowing the alternate material items. Have a Hoyer at the border to swap people out of their own chairs, etc. As much as I dislike insurance companies effectively making a law through the policy small type maybe its time they make it a requirement if a hospital expects to be covered.
At the risk of sounding like your mother, its all fun and games until someone catches a flying wheelchair in the head.
MRI-safe equipment was introduced decades ago. The trainee brought in a regular wheelchair, violating rules and obviously wasn’t trained or supervised properly.