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PRACTICES FOR PREVENTION NEEDLESTICK AND SHARPS INJURIES AMONG NURSING STUDENTS

open access: yesBelitung Nursing Journal, 2017
Background: Needlestick and sharp injuries are a serious hazard in any health care setting for health care workers and students during clinical practice. Thus, the efforts to prevent the needlestick and sharps injuries are needed and considered a part of
Anh Tran Thi Quynh, Katrina Einhellig
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Causes and preventive measures of needlestick injury among grass-roots nurses in centralized vaccination sites (疫苗集中接种点基层护士针刺伤原因及防范措施)

open access: yes中西医结合护理, 2021
There are many hidden dangers if needlestick injuries occurs among grass-roots nurses at COVID-19 vaccination sites. In order to better prevent the occurrence of needlestick injuries and blood-borne infectious diseases, the related causes and relevant ...
ZHANG Ying (张莹)   +2 more
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Needlestick and sharp injuries and its associated factors among healthcare workers in Southern Ethiopia

open access: yesSAGE Open Medicine, 2023
Background: Needlesticks and sharp injuries are occupational hazards for healthcare workers that result from the accidental piercing of the skin. Needlestick injuries expose healthcare workers to blood and body fluids that may be infected and can be ...
Baye Tsegaye Amlak   +10 more
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Minimalizing needlestick injuries [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
This is a poster, along with a 500 word abstract, on best practise to reduce needlestick injuries and reduce blood borne illness, if an injury occurs, among the multidisciplinary ...
Somers, Susan
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Occupational injury history and universal precautions awareness: a survey in Kabul hospital staff [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Background Health staff in Afghanistan may be at high risk of needle stick injury and occupational infection with blood borne pathogens, but we have not found any published or unpublished data.
Salehi Ahmad   +6 more
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Accidental Pig Vaccine Injection Injury

open access: yesJournal of Hand Surgery Global Online, 2019
Animal vaccine injection injuries of the hand are of special concern in veterinary medicine and agricultural fields. Although most of these injuries resolve with no or minimal treatment, major complications can occur. We report a case of a farmworker who
Robert E. Van Demark, Jr., MD   +5 more
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Needlestick injuries in radiology: prevention and management.

open access: yes, 2022
Needlestick injuries are common and often underreported in invasive radiological procedures. Prior needlestick injuries have been reported in 86-91% of interventional radiologists, and on average, one needlestick injury occurs for every 5 years of ...
Lin, C, Aljuaid, M, Tirada, Nikki, MD
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Occupational exposures to blood and body fluids among health care workers at university hospitals [PDF]

open access: yesSrpski Arhiv za Celokupno Lekarstvo, 2013
Introduction. Occupational exposure to blood and body fluids is a serious concern of health care workers and presents a major risk of transmission of infections such as human immuno-deficiency virus (HIV), hepatitis B virus (HBV), and hepatitis ...
Marković-Denić Ljiljana   +6 more
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Rationing of nursing care : associations with patient safety and quality of hospital care [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
On the basis of nurse reports indicating the occurrence of implicit rationing of nursing care in Swiss hospitals, the Swiss Federal Office of Public Health asked the Institute of Nursing Science of the University of Basel to conduct the Rationing of ...
Schubert, Maria
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Prevalence of needlestick injury among healthcare workers in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis

open access: yesEnvironmental Health and Preventive Medicine, 2019
Background Health facilities can provide diagnostic, curative, and prognostic services for the community. While providing services, healthcare workers can be exposed to needlestick injuries that can transmit pathogenic organisms through body fluids ...
Teshiwal Deress Yazie   +2 more
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