Nurses’ Knowledge of Hospital Medical Waste Management: Areas to Improve
Yıl: 2019 Cilt: 3 Sayı: 1 Sayfa Aralığı: 1 - 6 Metin Dili: İngilizce DOI: 10.14744/ejmi.2019.0007 İndeks Tarihi: 05-10-2020
Nurses’ Knowledge of Hospital Medical Waste Management: Areas to Improve
Öz: Despite the recognized importance of medical waste management, reports are presenting significant shortcomings.Our aim in this study was to evaluate the knowledge of hospital staff on medical waste management. All 540 nursesin a tertiary hospital in Eastern Turkey were invited to take part in a 20-item knowledge test on hospital waste. Of the467 participants, 82.9% (n=387) were females, and 89.1% (n=416) had some training on medical wastes. Mean agewas 28.8±7.0. The majority (89.1%; n=416) had some training on medical wastes. Mean medical waste knowledgescores were 17.6±2.1 from a scale of 0 to 20. Of the participants, 62.1% (n=355) reported being injured with possiblycontaminated cutting tools. 34% (n=132) did not know that papers used for the packaging of medicinal materialsshould be discarded into blue bins. This study demonstrated competent knowledge of hospital nurses on medicalwaste. However, there are still areas to improve about self-protection and separation of recyclable medical waste.
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| IEEE | Calikoglu E,Aras A "Nurses’ Knowledge of Hospital Medical Waste Management: Areas to Improve." Eurasian Journal of Medical Investigation, 3, ss.1 - 6, 2019. 10.14744/ejmi.2019.0007 |
| ISNAD | Calikoglu, Elif Oksan - Aras, Aysun. "Nurses’ Knowledge of Hospital Medical Waste Management: Areas to Improve". Eurasian Journal of Medical Investigation 3/1 (2019), 1-6. https://doi.org/10.14744/ejmi.2019.0007 |
