Needlestick Injuries: Don't Get Stuck With Something You Don't Want

NEEDLESTICK INJURIES DON'T GET STUCK WITH SOMETHING YOU DON'T WANT ............ ... 17% OF ALL INJURIES INVOLVING NHS STAFF ARE SHARPS INJURIES THE NUMBER OF HEALTH PROFESSIONALS WHO HAVE BEEN PIERCED BY NEEDLES AT WORK HAS DOUBLED IN THE LAST 10 YEARS, LEAVING MEDICAL STAFF VULNERABLE TO VIRUSES TRANSMITTED THROUGH BLOOD 100,000 SHARPS INJURIES OCCUR IN NHS HOSPITALS EACH YEAR IN THE U.K. ***................................................................ AN RCN SURVEY OF 4,407 NURSES FOUND: (48% (52% HAD BEEN STUCK BY FEAR NEEDLESTICK A NEEDLE OR SHARP INJURIES EITHER THAT HAD A GREAT DEAL' PREVIOUSLY BEEN OR 'A FAIR AMOUNT' USED ON A PATIENT 95% 45% CONSIDER THE REPORTED THEY HAD AVAILABILITY OF NOT RECEIVED TRAINING FROM THEIR EMPLOYER ON SAFE NEEDLE USE SAFER NEEDLE DEVICES TO BE EITHER 'ESSENTIAL' OR 'PREFERABLE' OF NEEDLESTICK 85% INJURIES GO UNREPORTED THE MAJOR BLOORD-BORNE PATHOGENS OF CONCERN ASSOCIATED WITH NEEDLESTICK INJURY ARE: HBV HCV HIV HEPATITIS НЕРАТITIS B VIRUS HUMAN C VIRUS IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS AT LEAST FOUR HEALTHCARE WORKERS ARE KNOWN тО HAVE DIED FOLLOWING OCUPATIONALLY ACQUIRED HIV IN THE UK BROUGHT TO YOU BY: PRODUCED BY: Beardsells Personal Injury ATTWOOD -DIGITAL- http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21265403 http://www.nursingtimes.net/ http://www.nhsemployers.org/Aboutus/Publications/Documents/Needlestick%2 Oinjury.pdf http://www.rcn.org.uk/_data/assets/pdf_file/0007/230884/003313.pdf AttwoodDigital.com