Investigation about the compliance of education about how to preventing sharp instrument injuries among clinical nurses / 中国实用护理杂志

ABSTRACT

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.