Influential factors and strategies about the compliance of medical workers in classifying medical wastes / 中国实用护理杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To explore the factors that may influence the compliance of medical workers in dealing with classifying medical wastes. Methods One hundred and sixteen medical workers participated in this investigation by applying self-designed questionnaire and live observation mode. Influential factors were evaluated by multi-factors analysis. Results The compliance percent of 116 medical workers was only 69.9%(351/502), which caused by low awareness of medical wastes. As much as 20.12 % (101/502) medical workers made mistakes when dealing with infectious wastes. Working experience, awareness of medical wastes, instruments and working load were associated with compliance of medical workers (P<0.05). Conclusions Low compliance of medical workers dealing with medical wastes were related to lacking working experience, low awareness of medical wastes, inappropriate instruments and heavy working load. In this case, improving management system of medical wastes, regular training and assessment, adding instruments and identification of medical wastes, increasing medical workers and simplifying the working process are effective approaches in increasing compliance of medical workers in dealing with medical wastes and improving quality of nursing management.