Reducing needlestick injuries has become an important topic of discussion for health care workers, politicians, employers, researchers, and government agencies. Demand for action has evoked strong responses from multiple players, and subsequently, greater public awareness. Speci® cally, the safety of health care workers has been emphasized; as a preventable occupational health hazard, needlesti...

background: exposure to blood-borne pathogens from needle-stick and sharp injuries continues to pose a significant risk to health care workers. these events are of concern because of the risk to transmit blood-borne diseases such as hepatitis b virus, hepatitis c virus, and the human immunodeficiency virus. objective: to benchmark different risk factors associated with needle-stick incidents am...

TWO NURSES spoke out last week about their harrowing experiences of hepatitis diagnoses following needlestick injuries.

Needlestick/sharp injuries (NSIs/SIs) are a serious threat to medical/nursing students in hospital internships. Education for preventing NSIs/SIs is important for healthcare workers but is rarely conducted and evaluated among vocational school nursing students. We conducted an educational intervention for such students after their internship rotations before graduation. This program consisted o...

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...