title: [Underreporting of blood exposure incidents: a worrying situation among nursing students].
abstract: Accidental blood exposure incidents require immediate medical evaluation, permitting early treatment, if needed, for a possible infection and enable identification of the work accident in case of HIV infectivity status. A study wax conducted with nursing students in two different years of study in order to formalize the rate of underreporting of blood exposure incidents and to determine the reasons. The results highlight that, over a period of three years of training, 52 % of blood exposure incidents have not been declared as occupational accidents. The reasons for nursing students underreporting of blood exposure incidents are related on the one hand to the negative perceptions and feelings that students have (personal fault 55 % and awkwardness 82 %) and to the fear of negatives consequences (31 %) on the evaluation of their internship in particular and on their nursing training in general. On the other hand, students tend to conform to other caregivers who themselves underestimate the risk of blood exposure incidents (22 %). The identification of these elements will help to initiate a discussion and to prepare direct actions in order to encourage reporting of blood exposure incidents by nursing students and their colleagues during internships.
authors.forename: Christine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Noé
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D017848:Blood-Borne Pathogens; D005260:Female; D005602:France; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D016273:Occupational Exposure / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D055815:Young Adult