Prewarning management for sharp instrument injury among medical workers / 中国实用护理杂志

ABSTRACT

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.