Nurses experience of needlestick injuries

“Understanding the risk situations and coping mechanisms for needlestick injuries experienced by nurses facilitates their prevention” Min et al (2023).

Insulin injection-related needlestick injuries – Full Text

“Insulin injection-related NSIs are common among HCWs working in hospitals in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region and impose a significant burden” Mohamed et al (2023).

Sharps injuries with prefilled enoxaparin safety syringes – Full Text

“Use of certain brands of enoxaparin prefilled syringes poses a small but serious risk of injury to staff. Conducting root cause analyses on all SI is essential, as is the need for regularly evaluating safer devices, reporting all device incidents, enabling simpler reporting of adverse events, and establishing more effective intervention by FDA and manufacturers” Grimmond et al (2023).

Quality improvement interventions to reduce needlestick injuries – Full Text

“Using root cause analysis to investigate the possible cause of needlestick injury and use of the run chart to monitor the implemented improvement strategies (interventions) helped reduce the incidence of needlestick injuries among staff and thereby improved staff safety” Kumah et al (2023).

OSHA bloodborne pathogen standards – Full Text

“This activity reviews the elements of the Bloodborne Pathogens Standard. It highlights the role of the interprofessional team in reducing or eliminating the risk of occupational exposure to infectious materials and a wide range of diseases” Denault and Gardner (2023).

Study finds that nearly fifty percent of nurses experience needlestick injuries – Full Text

“Furthermore, nurses were found to be the highest at-risk category of HCWs experiencing NSIs (49.9%), while medical waste handlers (1.5%) and dentists (1.3%) were least likely to incur injuries” Alshehri et al (2023).

Hepatitis B infection among healthcare students – Full Text

“This study assessed the knowledge, attitudes, and practices toward HBV among Jordanian healthcare students and its associated factors” Alaridah et al (2023).

Pain medicine physician needlestick injury survey

“To investigate and characterize the incidence of needlestick injuries (NSI) in a sample of practicing pain medicine physicians, with the ultimate goal of aiding to prevent these injuries by raising awareness of their prevalence” Moheimani et al (2023).

Decreasing sharps injuries through root cause analysis

“The goal of this quality improvement project was to identify root causes of sharps injuries for RNs at a large urban hospital system” Stallard et al (2023).

Impact of fatigue on clinical performance

“An increasing body of evidence suggests that fatigue among healthcare staff is widespread, owing to a combination of high work intensity, long daytime hours and night-shift working. This has been linked to poorer outcomes for patients and longer inpatient stays, and to increased risks of work-related accidents, errors and injuries for practitioners” Sutherland et al (2023).

Needlestick injuries during large-scale vaccination initiatives – Full Text

“We determined the incidence of needle stick injuries (NIs) from the SARS-CoV-2 vaccination brigades in the Monterrey metropolitan area” Moran-González et al (2023).

Needlestick injuries among clinical students – Full Text

“This study showed a high prevalence of needle stick injuries among clinical students. The associated factors were; the year of study, having not learned about infection control, the number of patients attended to daily” Elisa et al (2023).

Occupational exposure to blood-borne viruses – post-exposure prophylaxis

“To investigate the incidence of OBEs, related epidemiological characteristics, PEP completion rate, time and reason for PEP discontinuation, and seroconversion rate reported over 10 years” Lee and Choi (2023).

Needlestick and sharp injuries in Ethiopia – Full Text

“To assess needlestick and sharp injuries and its associated factors among healthcare workers in Southern Ethiopia, 2021” Tsegaye Amlak et al (2023).

Needlestick injury prevalence in healthcare students – Full Text

“The present study found that one in four students experience needlestick injury; overall knowledge regarding prevention and management of needlestick injury was lesser than desired, and gaps in knowledge and practice were identified in the present study” Datar et al (2022).

Needlestick injuries among nurses in Italy

“The incidence rate of NSI varies from 2.2 to 10.77 per 100 nurses per year. The major causes can be traced back to a large night shift, working in the operating block and in the medical departments, and the failure to use adequate devices” Brusini (2022).

Nuclear medicine occupational exposure

“This audit raises questions around how IRR17 compliance can be universally demonstrated with such wide national variation” Murray and Memmott (2023).

Needlestick injury prevalence meta-analysis – Full Text

“The aim of the review was to identify the prevalence of sharps and needlestick injury within the operating theatre and to establish the most common critical steps” Bevan et al (2023).

Shift patterns and needlestick rates

“Proper management of work hours and scheduling is essential to maximize recovery time and reduce or prevent nurse injuries” Imes et al (2022).

Barriers to reporting needlestick injures

“One in every five pharmacists in the state of Perak had a history of NSI, and 1 in every 10 had sustained a contaminated NSI” Arvinder-Singh et al (2022).

Occupational blood exposure risk – Full Text

“Occupational exposure to blood and body fluids in registered nurses is common, but the rate of under-reporting such exposure is high” Zhang et al (2022).

Safety engineered devices to reduce needlestick rates – Full Text

“An online cross-sectional survey was completed between October 2021 and March 2022 by 280 nurses. The incidence of exposure to sharp injury during their professional life was 51.4%” Garus-Pakowska et al (2022).

Needlestick injuries among nursing students – Full Text

“Through PDCA process management, we can keep abreast of the situation of needlestick injuries among nursing students in practice and analyze in more detail the root cause of each nursing student’s occupational exposure and the outcome of treatment” Chen and Zhang (2022).

Sharp injury prevention in Italy – Full Text

“Sharp injuries, determining the risk of bloodborne infections and psychological distress in healthcare workers, may be prevented by a set of strategies, legally enforced in Europe through the Directive 2010/32/EU” De Carli et al (2022).

Prevalence of needlestick injury among nursing students – Full Text

“A third of nursing students reported experiencing NSI. Consequently, occupational hazard prevention training and student support measures need to be considered”

Unsafe behaviour and needlestick injury – Full Text

“In the present study, some personal traits affecting the occurrence of needlestick injuries were identified” Majdabadi et al (2022).

Needlestick among dental students

“Dental students had a high prevalence and low reporting rate of NSI exposure. Inadequate knowledge might increase the probability of NSI exposure” Huang et al (2022).

Needlestick injury in Saudi Arabia – Full Text

“The high incidence and low rate of reporting of NSIs highlights the need of education and awareness raising programs targeting healthcare providers with higher risk of injury” Abalkhail et al (2022).

Needlestick rates at a German university hospital – Full Text

“Health care workers and students should be offered regular trainings to be sensitized to this topic and to learn the appropriate use of SED” Kaur et al (2022).

Sharp injury management among health care workers – Full Text

“This study aimed to determine the distribution and associated factors of sharp injury cases among HCWs working at a teaching hospital in northeastern Malaysia” Kutubudin et al (2022).