The purpose of this project was to demonstrate to pharmacy and osteopathic medical students the value of interdisciplinary education through participation in an interdisciplinary medication adherence project. Each pharmacy student, assuming the role of a pharmacist, was paired with a medical student acting as a physician with a needlestick exposure requiring HIV prophylaxis therapy. Medical stu...

Sanitation workers (SW) are exposed to a wide range of biological, chemical, and physical hazards. Needlestick injuries constitute a recognized physical hazard, but few studies have been conducted to document the magnitude of the problem among SW. Contaminated sharp objects can transmit bloodborne pathogens, such as human immunodeficiency (HIV), hepatitis B (HBV), and hepatitis C (HCV) viruses....

Methods The Infectious Diseases Unit at Bolzano Hospital is the point of reference for all NI occurring inand outside the hospital within the sanitary district (approx. 215,000 inhabitants). For each case noticed, a record form is drawn up by nurses, who take care of registration and demographics, occupation of the worker involved, timing of NI, and by physicians thereafter, who record cause of...

PURPOSE A prevalence survey was performed to estimate the magnitude and predictors for needlestick injury (NSI) in nurses of Fars province hospitals. METHODS Questionnaires were distributed in 52 hospitals to a stratified random sample of 2,118 (46.3%) nurses between April and September 2005 to collect self-reported NSI in the past 12- months. RESULTS Of the 1,555 nurses who returned a comp...

Methods A hospital wide preand post interventional study was conducted in a cardiosurgical university hospital. In the first period, the baseline data including NSIs rate, occupation, location, time and activities associated with NSIs were collected using an anonymous questionnaire. During the second period (6 months) an education program was organized through four workshops. HCWs completed the...

Aims and objectives: Needle Stick Injuries (NSI) is one of the common occupational hazard for nurses and can occur because of variety of causes. This study was aimed at finding out the prevalence of NSI and to explore the factors related to NSI incidences. Methods and materials: This quantitative descriptive study was conducted among 150 nurses working two tertiary care hospitals in Haryana. Co...