The Efficacy of Safety Winged Steel Needles on Needlestick Injuries
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The management of needlestick injuries.
BACKGROUND An estimated 1 million needlestick injuries (NSIs) occur in Europe each year. The Council Directive 2010/32/EU on the prevention of NSIs describes minimum requirements for prevention and calls for the implementation of local, national and Europe-wide reporting systems. The Directive is to be implemented by all EU member states by 11 May 2013. The purpose of this study was to assess (...
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OBJECTIVES understand the Social Representations about needlestick injuries elaborated by Nursing Technicians and analyze how these representations influence their conducts. METHOD the data, obtained by interviews, were processed using ALCESTE software and their analysis was based on Serge Moscovici's Social Representations Theory. RESULTS it was evidenced that, after the accident, these pr...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the Japanese Association for Infectious Diseases
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1884-569X,0387-5911
DOI: 10.11150/kansenshogakuzasshi1970.80.39