Needlestick and sharps injuries: avoiding the risk in clinical practice.
What is the true incidence of needlestick and sharps injuries among health-care professionals in the UK and what is the real cost of such injuries? This article identifies the obvious and not-so-obvious risks to staff in community and hospital settings and examines how such risks can be minimised, drawing on guidance from NICE and the RCN.
Cancer Nurse, Winchester.
Janice
J
Gabriel
Sue
S
Dailly
Jill
J
Kayley
D017408:Guidelines as Topic / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D017053:Infection Control / Q000592:standards*; D016602:Needlestick Injuries / Q000517:prevention & control*; D009729:Nursing / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards*; D016273:Occupational Exposure / Q000517:prevention & control*; D012308:Risk Management / Q000379:methods*