BACKGROUND Needle stick and sharp injuries were one of the major risk factors for blood and body fluid borne infections at health care facilities. OBJECTIVE To assess occupational exposure to needle stick and sharp injuries and associated factors among health care workers in Awi zone, 2016. METHODS institutional based cross-sectional study was conducted among 193 health care workers. Study ...

Varroa destructor is arguably the most important threat to Apis mellifera honey bees. Despite recentness of invasion Varroa, A. colonies naturally resistant mite are being observed in a growing number populations across Europe, South Africa and Brazil. Appearing concert with this resistance an increase ability workers detect mite-infested cells, which closely associated recapping such cells. Ho...

BACKGROUND We conducted an assessment of knowledge about blood borne pathogens (BBP) and use of universal precautions at first level care facilities (FLCF) in two districts of Pakistan. METHODS We conducted a cross-sectional survey and selected three different types of FLCFs ; public, general practitioners and unqualified practitioners through stratified random sampling technique. At each fac...

BACKGROUND This study aimed to determine the prevalence and factors related to needle stick injuries (NSIs) and to assess related safety measures among a sample of Iranian nurses. METHODS In this cross-sectional study, a random sample of 168 registered active nurses was selected from different wards of one of the hospitals of Shiraz University of Medical Sciences (SUMS). Data were collected b...

BACKGROUND Needle stick injury has been identified as the foremost health allied concern and the specialty of dentistry is not an exception. Its incidence can be reduced when a dental practitioner is completely proverbial to the standard cross-infection control measures. This study was intended to assess the knowledge, attitude and practices among the dental practitioners regarding Needle Stick...

BACKGROUND Occupational exposure to blood and body fluids is a serious concern for health care workers, and presents a major risk for the transmission of infections such as HIV and hepatitis viruses. The objective of this study was to investigate occupational exposures and behavior of health care workers (HCWs) in eastern Ethiopia. METHODS We surveyed 475 HCWs working in 10 hospitals and 20 h...

This paper reports on the research topics and goals for my Ph.D. In the opening, game-based learning and co-design are overviewed. Issues emerging from the surveyed literature are used to frame the research goals of my Ph.D., broken down into propaedeutic objectives. The paper continues presenting the co-design studies for tackling the stated objectives, and focuses on the study conducted with ...

Abstract After the COVID-19 breakout, agile teams found themselves in situations that “pure agilists” and textbooks on methods had preferred to ignore. Whereas mindsets helped them quickly shift remote work, mere virtualization of practices often proved insufficient, several challenges emerged. This paper reports an Action Research project carried out Lufthansa Systems Poland with aim (1) revis...