An Interventional Study on Knowledge and Practice of Injection Safety and Appropriate Biomedical Waste Disposal among Students of One of the Nursing Colleges, Ahmedabad

Background: Injection is an important drug delivery system especially for severely ill patient, acute emergency condition and immunization. A safe injection is that, does not harm the recipient (patient), does not expose the provider (Health Workers) to any avoidable risk and does not result in waste that is dangerous for the community. Nursing personnel are an important risk group for occupational exposure to needle stick injuries as they are directly involved in the patient care activities like giving injections, starting IV line, taking blood sample etc. Objectives: To study the knowledge & impact of educational intervention of injection safety, post exposure prophylaxis following needle stick injury and segregation of bio medical waste among study nd rd nd rd participants. Methods: An Interventional study was carried out among 2 ,3 and final year B.Sc. & 2 ,3 year GNM nursing students of one of the Nursing Colleges in Ahmedabad. Results: Out of total, 233 (89.6%) were females and 27(10.4%) were males. Overall comparison between pre-test and post-test score regarding various factor of knowledge and practice of safe injection was statistically significant. Out of total, 36(13.8%) study participants were suffered from needle stick injury due to quickness or not wearing gloves. Only 11.1% study participants were not taking post exposure prophylaxis because of lack of knowledge and dread about long time medication course. Conclusion: Practice of injection safety standards was inappropriate except for routine use of hand gloves. The level of knowledge was poor especially in Post-Exposure Prophylaxis and Needle-prick injury accident management (NPIAM) protocol and register for post-exposure prophylaxis. Post-intervention assessment showed significant improvement in Knowledge for injection safety, PEP/NPIAM and category wise segregation of Bio-medical waste. Periodic reinforcement of the Nursing students by MBBS level educator with IEC and hands on training intervention will significantly protect them from NSIs and prevent the spread of blood borne pathogens.

Multi-dimensional evaluation on management effectiveness of safe injec-tion in a tertiary general hospital / 中国感染控制杂志

Objective To explore scientific and effective management methods for safe injection,provide reference for improving compliance rate of safe injection behavior and achieving continuous improvement in safe injection. Methods A special safety injection program was formulated,baseline survey and safe injection-related training were carried out,safe injection system and standard procedures were formulated,on-site supervision and examination were strengthened,quantitative indexes such as qualified rate of safe injection facilities,theoretical examination re-sult,behavior compliance rate,and occurrence rate of sharp injury before intervention (baseline survey in May 2016)and after intervention (2017)were compared.Results Through comprehensive intervention,facilities alloca-tion rates of safe injection in whole hospital were all＞97%,qualified rates of all medical waste disposal were all＞93%,actual average consumption of alcohol-based hand rub in the whole hospital increased from (5.56±2.13) mL/bed-day to (9.95±5.38)mL/bed-day;the average score of safety injection knowledge examination of health care workers(HCWs)increased from (71.20±12.22)before intervention to (92.59±5.99)after intervention;HCWs’compliance rate to safe injection increased from 62.50% before intervention to 88.53% after intervention, difference were all statistically significant (P＜0.05).Reporting rate of sharp injuries in the whole hospital within a week increased from 15.79% before intervention to 71.43% after intervention;occurrence rate of case incidence of sharp injuries in the whole year and 100-day hospitalization decreased from 9.98% and 0.0276% before intervention to 5.31% and 0.0168% after intervention respectively,differences were both statistically significant (both P＜0.05).Conclusion Effective comprehensive intervention measures can strengthen the awareness of safe injection, improve compliance rate of safe injection behavior,effectively prevent the occurrence of occupational injuries in HC-Ws caused by unsafe injection,and prevent the spread of healthcare-associated infection.

Survey on safe injection practice in primary medical institutions / 中国感染控制杂志

Objective To investigate the status of safe injection practice in primary medical institutions.Methods 55 primary medical institutions in Hubei Province were randomly selected,questionnaire survey on status of safe injection in primary medical institutions was conducted.Results A total of 55 questionnaires were distributed,50(90.91％) valid questionnaires were obtained.All valid questionnaires were from primary level medical institutions of Hubei Province,16 of which were from community health centers,17 from township health centers,and 17 from village health clinics.None of 50 primary medical institutions repeatedly used syringe and hemostix,all used disposable sterile syringe,only 7(14.00％) medical institutions used retraction type self-destructing syringe.Only 5 (10.00％) medical institutions were equipped with hand hygiene facilities and sharps containers,32 (64.00％) medical institutions didn't provide sharps containers on treatment carts,21 (42.00 ％) injection rooms didn't install hand-drying facilities,18 (36.00 ％)medical institutions didn't provide alcohol-based hand rub on treatment carts and didn't install hand-drying facilities in treatment rooms.Of sharp injures among health care workers (HCWs) reported in 2015,114 HCWs sustained 117 times of injuries,74 cases(63.25 ％) were caused by ampoule.Of medical waste disposal,there existed some problems,such as leakage and repeated use of sharps box,didn't close sharps box timely,as well as without providing sharp containers in locations where sharps might be produced.Conclusion There are a variety of hidden risks of unsafe injection in primary medical institutions,like insufficient facilities and unsafe disposal of medical waste.

Initial investigation into status of safe injection practice some health care facilitites in Ha Noi

A cross-sectional study was carried out in three health care facilities (HCFs) in Ha Noi. The result showed that: the facilities ensured using sterilized disposable injection syringes and needles. Health care workers were fully equipped personal protective equipment. The health care facilities had sharp container. Some safe injection practice standards were well implemented as giving injection as prescription (100%), identify injection sites (91.4-100%) kept needles and syringes in a sharp container (89.0%-96.6%). However washing hand for sterilizing only accounted for 41.7%-55.1%