This study aimed to assess the knowledge of blood-borne diseases transmitted through needle stick injuries amongst health-care workers in a tertiary teaching hospital. We also aimed to assess the practices of universal precautions amongst these workers and its correlation with the facts. We carried out a cross-sectional study from January to July 2008 involving various levels of health-care wor...

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...

This paper describes an proof-of-concept with the goal of providing new interactions for elevators. By connecting the control unit of the elevator to the ISO/IEC 24752 Universal Remote Console (URC) middleware – the Universal Remote Console (UCH) – we show some examples of alternative and accessible User Interfaces. By this, we achieve not only accessible UIs, e.g., spoken language interfaces, ...

The low awareness of nurses to carry out nursing actions causes be very vulnerable transmission infection because in providing care patients will have direct contact with blood and body fluids. Universal precautions require health workers treat all equally using universal regardless the disease. purpose this study was determine relationship between knowledge about Precaution prevention Nosocomi...

background education, universal precautions, using protective glasses and a standard method of used needle disposal, are the most important strategies for preventing bloodborne infections. objectives the aim of this study was to compare the effect of a face-to-face education program with the effect of an official-imperative circular, on the needle-disposal behavior of nurses working in the shah...

BACKGROUND The guidelines for minimizing occupational health risk from exposure to highly infectious diseases is already established but little information exists on the compliance of these measures among paramedical workers in India. OBJECTIVE To study the awareness of occupational safety measures such as universal precautions, biomedical waste handling, disposal and its compliance in their ...

The investigation and discussion of metalinguistic ability requires a firm theoretical foundation if it is to contribute to a proper account of its role in L1 and L2 performance. A framework for elaborating more rigorous accounts of this and other major issues of language acquisition and performance will be presented here as a prerequisite to discussing the role of metalinguistic knowledge. In ...