Reducing needle stick injuries in healthcare occupations: an integrative review of the literature
Needlestick injuries frequently occur among healthcare workers, introducing high risk of bloodborne pathogen infection for surgeons, assistants, and nurses. This systematic review aims to explore the impact of both educational training and safeguard interventions to reduce needlestick injuries. Seve...
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2011
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| description | Needlestick injuries frequently occur among healthcare workers, introducing high risk of bloodborne pathogen infection for surgeons, assistants, and nurses. This systematic review aims to explore the impact of both educational training and safeguard interventions to reduce needlestick injuries. Several databases were searched including MEDLINE, PsycINFO, SCOPUS, CINAHL and Sciencedirect. Studies were selected if the intervention contained a study group and a control group and were published between 2000 and 2010. Of the fourteen studies reviewed, nine evaluated a double-gloving method, one evaluated the effectiveness of blunt needle, and one evaluated a bloodborne pathogen educational training program. Ten studies reported an overall reduction in glove perforations for the intervention group. In conclusion, this review suggests that both safeguard interventions and educational training programs are effective in reducing the risk of having needlestick injuries. However, more studies using a combination of both safeguards and educational interventions in surgical and nonsurgical settings are needed. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-197502017-09-13T13:47:29Z Reducing needle stick injuries in healthcare occupations: an integrative review of the literature Yang, L. Mullan, Barbara Needlestick injuries frequently occur among healthcare workers, introducing high risk of bloodborne pathogen infection for surgeons, assistants, and nurses. This systematic review aims to explore the impact of both educational training and safeguard interventions to reduce needlestick injuries. Several databases were searched including MEDLINE, PsycINFO, SCOPUS, CINAHL and Sciencedirect. Studies were selected if the intervention contained a study group and a control group and were published between 2000 and 2010. Of the fourteen studies reviewed, nine evaluated a double-gloving method, one evaluated the effectiveness of blunt needle, and one evaluated a bloodborne pathogen educational training program. Ten studies reported an overall reduction in glove perforations for the intervention group. In conclusion, this review suggests that both safeguard interventions and educational training programs are effective in reducing the risk of having needlestick injuries. However, more studies using a combination of both safeguards and educational interventions in surgical and nonsurgical settings are needed. 2011 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/19750 10.5402/2011/315432 Hindawi Publishing Corporation fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Yang, L. Mullan, Barbara Reducing needle stick injuries in healthcare occupations: an integrative review of the literature |
| title | Reducing needle stick injuries in healthcare occupations: an integrative review of the literature |
| title_full | Reducing needle stick injuries in healthcare occupations: an integrative review of the literature |
| title_fullStr | Reducing needle stick injuries in healthcare occupations: an integrative review of the literature |
| title_full_unstemmed | Reducing needle stick injuries in healthcare occupations: an integrative review of the literature |
| title_short | Reducing needle stick injuries in healthcare occupations: an integrative review of the literature |
| title_sort | reducing needle stick injuries in healthcare occupations: an integrative review of the literature |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/19750 |