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Objective To explore the incidence,causes,circumstances and protection and safe handling management of injury by sharp instrument in medical staff.Furthermore to design precaution project to alert medical staff. Methods Retrospective questionnaire investigation was carried out in 704 medical staffs in our hospitaL Results 543 of the investigated staff had been injured by sharp instrument at their work (77.11%),totally 1740 times.The incidence rate of nurses was even more,which reached 93.29%.The leading sharp instrument which caused injury were needle,infusion needle and glass ampul.Injuries often happened in morning work time when most treatments should be accomplished.When injuries happened only 24.71% of the victims had worn gloves at work,and only 24.3% of the victims had filed a repert. Conclusions The incidence of injury by sharp instrument is high in medical staffs,but they have little awareness of protection.h is an urgent topic to establish precaution mechanisms to prevent occupation injuries.
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OBJECTIVE To investigate the status and countermeasures of the clinical nurse injuries caused by sharp instruments.METHODS The related data of the 76 cases reported for clinical nurses stab injury by applying our hospital "Medical Sharp Instruments Injury Registration Form" were analyzed.RESULTS The kinds of sharp instruments inducing sharps instrument injured in 76 cases were scalp puncture(43.4%),various syringe needles(28.9%),glass(14.5%),suture needles(5.3%)and others(7.9%);the main causes of sharp injuries were the post-operation processing(34.2%),opening the ampoules with the fingers and thumb(14.5%),capping needles(13.1%)and withdrawal of the needles(9.2%);57.9% of the sharp instrument injuries were stabbed by blood contaminated needles.Among them,23 cases(30.3%)stabbed due to the patients with the blood borne infectous diseases such as hepatitis B and hepatitis C.And 89.5% among them were without wearing gloves.Only 10 injured nurses of the 22 cases were injected hepatitis B immunoglobulin.CONCLUSIONS The important measures to reduce the clinical sharp instrument injuries are:to strengthen the "standard precautions" idea,raise awareness of occupational protection and performance standards,and strengthen the monitoring and management of the sharp injuries.
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To make sure the compliance of education about how to preventing sharp instrument injuries among clinical nurses, and then propose certain effective countermeasures to preventing sharp instrument injuries. Methods Using the questionnaire which was designed according to the requirement of preventing sharp instrument injuries in clinical nursing cares to investigated 1291 nurses from 22 hospitals, and then analyzed the datum which had summarized from this investigation. Results The self-prevention of sharp instrument injuries in clinical nursing cares was weak in general. There were 11.93% nurses know nothing about how to preventing sharp instrument injuries. The ratio of usually washing hands before and after touch patients was 33.23% , and the ratio of usually wearing gloves when doing some operation which maybe touch blood was 23.01 %. There were 976 accidents of sharp instrument injuries in this investigation, the ratio of report was only 23.16%. Conclusion Reinforce the education about how to preventing sharp instrument injuries among clinical nurses is an effective method to low down the incidence rate of sharp instrument injuries, and then avoid the risk of infection which come from clinical nursing operation.
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OBJECTIVE To strengthen the self-protection consciousness of supply office staff to reduce the occupationol infection.METHODS From Sep 2006 to Aug 2007,97 supply office persons in 8 third-level hospitals and 2 second-level hospitals were carried on the related questionnaire survey.RESULTS 85.6% Of the staff were contaminated by blood,body fluid,secretion and the excreta,74.2% of them were contaminated for many times.Sharp instrument injunry occurcd among 77.3% of the staff,in which 14.4% were injured more than 5 times,About the knowledge of prevention,43.3% was familiar,47.4% only heared about them but not familiar and 9.3% never heared it.CONCLUSIONS The supply office staff is the high dangerous infection crowd,who are the suscepitable population of the sharp instrument injury.It is important to adopt the universal prevention and the standard preventive measures to reduce occupational infection occurrence.