Injection Safety: Knowledge and Practices among Nursing Personnel in Tertiary Care Teaching Hospital of Marathwada Region of Maharashtra, India

Rd, Kulkarni

doi:10.17352/2455-5479.000011

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“…complete knowledge of the concept of injection safety as per WHO definition. Similar findings were found in the study by Kulkarni RS et al8 among nurses in a tertiary care teaching hospital of Marathwada region of Maharashtra where 75.7% participants were not aware about concept of injection safety. In the present study, the study participants had excellent knowledge about risk of transmission of pathogens like for HIV and HBV (99.6 %) and good knowledge for HCV 79.6%.…”

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“…In the present study, more than two third study participants (76.4%) gave correct response about color code for waste sharp management. This knowledge on waste sharp management was found to be less when compared with study findings by Kulkarni RS et al 8 where majority of respondents (92.8%) gave correct answer about colour code for sharp waste disposal. Knowledge on use of colourcoded bags according to bio medical waste guidelines was 65.8% in a study by Garapati S, Peethala S 13 done in Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh which can be compared with the knowledge of 76.4% in present study.…”

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Injection Safety Awareness and Knowledge among Healthcare Professionals in a Tertiary Care Hospital in Delhi

Siwan

Das

Gupta

2018

IJoHEMI

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Background: In some areas of the WHO South East Asian region (which includes India) the estimate for unsafe injection is as high as 75%. Safety of the patients, healthcare professionals (HCP) and the community are ensured by adequate knowledge of HCP of injection safety. The present study was undertaken to assess injection safety knowledge among HCP in a tertiary care hospital.Objective: To assess knowledge and safety awareness of injection among HCP.Methods: This was a cross-sectional, descriptive study conducted among doctors and nurses of purposively selected five departments in a Government tertiary care hospital in Delhi. Knowledge of HCP was assessed using self-administered questionnaire (SAQ) based on modified and pre-tested WHO tool C on injection safety. Number of participants were 250 (131 doctors and 119 nurses). Collected data was analyzed using Microsoft excel & Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS version 23).Results: Overall 16.8% of HCP had correct knowledge regarding WHO definition of injection safety. Knowledge was found to be good among HCP on correct injection techniques. Awareness of study participants on Universal precautions was not satisfactory as only 53.2% HCP had correct knowledge. Conclusion:The study findings identified many gaps in the existing knowledge among HCP on injection safety. These gaps need to be filled by having separate injection safety guidelines, regular trainings of HCP, seminars and workshops on injection safety topic.

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Injection Safety Awareness and Knowledge among Healthcare Professionals in a Tertiary Care Hospital in Delhi

Siwan

Das

Gupta

2018

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“…23 Similarly, a recent study, reported over 75% of a tertiary hospital healthcare workers were not aware of good injection safety practices. 24 the study also found that the healthcare workers do not comply with good injection safety practices. Most (60%) of the healthcare workers reported reusing needles, not disposing of sharps in a designated sharps container, recapping used needles and failing to observe hand hygiene before and / or after an injection (Table IV).…”

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Knowledge and practice of injection safety among healthcare workers in a Nigerian secondary healthcare facility

Abubakar

Usman

Idris

et al. 2019

Int. j. infect. control

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Injection safety is important in today’s healthcare delivery particularly in settings with a high burden of blood-borne viruses. A safe injection protects the patient, the healthcare worker and the community from avoidable infections. In Nigeria, the national policy on injection safety and healthcare waste management were developed in 2007. The development of the policy was followed by series of training on safe injection and behavioural change. Despite this, high burden of unsafe injections was reported in many parts of the country. This study assessed the level of knowledge and practice of injection safety among healthcare workers in a secondary healthcare facility in north-western Nigeria. The study targeted all the healthcare workers employed in the hospital. A self-administered questionnaire was distributed to all the available healthcare workers. A total of 80/88 questionnaires were returned and analysed. Majority of the respondents were male in their early career who were within the age range of 31-40years. The results showed that 88.75% of the healthcare workers correctly described injection safety as defined by the WHO. However, only 18.75% and 40.0% had good knowledge of risks associated with, and diseases that can be transmitted through unsafe injections respectively. In addition, only 25.0% reported safe injection practices. Reuse of syringe was reported by 37.50% of the respondents and over 88% recap used needles. Majority of the healthcare workers reported a previous history of needlestick injury which was not associated with their professional cadre p-value = 0.146. Despite injection safety training, inadequate knowledge with poor injection practice was found among the surveyed healthcare workers. The reuse of syringes and needles underscores the need for adequate and safe injection commodities at all levels of healthcare delivery. Keywords: healthcare workers, injection safety, knowledge, practice

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“…Furthermore, Isara et al's [25] study showed that the respondents around half had a better degree of practice of safety injection and less than half of them have a good and excellent practice of injection safety respectively. While Kulkarni et al [26] reported that majority of the studied group were not aware of the meaning of safety injection. 71.42% of the studied group didn't know immediate action in case of accidental injury, While 40% among studied group didn't aware about risk of unsafe injection.…”

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Safety measures between reality and intentions among nursing students regarding needle stick injuries

Atalla

2019

CNS

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Objective: The purpose of this study was to describe safety measures between reality and intentions among nursing students regarding needle stick injuries.Methods: Research Design: descriptive study cross sectional design. Setting: The study was carried out at three setting as the following: Faculty of Nursing, Institute of Nursing, School of Nursing at Menofia University, Menofia Governorate, Egypt. Subjects: 150 student nurses were included in the study. Tools for data collection: Interviewing questionnaire comprised of two sections: Demographic information, questionnaire regarding; mechanism of a needle stick injury the nursing students if present, at which stage needle injury occurs and reasons for not reporting that injury from student’s point of view, and safety injection checklist for assessing injection practices among injection providers.Results: Majority of studied sample were female mostly injured at outpatient clinic, medical department. Injury occurred mainly during IV injection, followed by IM injection and recapping needle. The majority of studied subject perceived that the reason of injury of needle stick injury were excitement and fear of Punishment and low grade during evaluation was the most common cause for non- reporting injury of needle stick injuries. Safety Injection Checklist for assessing injection practices among injection providers; showed 18% of study group were unsatisfied practiced while 100% of 3rd group showed satisfied practice.Conclusions: Increasing the awareness about the importance of reporting needle stick injuries is cardinal intervention to take adequate preventive measures for safety and continuous training and awareness program on injection safety to all the student nurses is a necessity for reducing the unsafe practices.

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Injection Safety: Knowledge and Practices among Nursing Personnel in Tertiary Care Teaching Hospital of Marathwada Region of Maharashtra, India

Cited by 5 publications

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Injection Safety Awareness and Knowledge among Healthcare Professionals in a Tertiary Care Hospital in Delhi

Injection Safety Awareness and Knowledge among Healthcare Professionals in a Tertiary Care Hospital in Delhi

Knowledge and practice of injection safety among healthcare workers in a Nigerian secondary healthcare facility

Safety measures between reality and intentions among nursing students regarding needle stick injuries

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