TY  - JOUR
TI  - Nurses’ Knowledge of Hospital Medical Waste Management: Areas to Improve
AB  - 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.
AU  - Aras, Aysun
AU  - Calikoglu, Elif Oksan
DO  - 10.14744/ejmi.2019.0007
PY  - 2019
JO  - Eurasian Journal of Medical Investigation
VL  - 3
IS  - 1
SN  - 2602-3164
SP  - 1
EP  - 6
DB  - TRDizin
UR  - http://search/yayin/detay/360343
ER  -