Nurses face their own risk and safety protection.doc

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 11 Nurses face their own risk and safety protection [Abstract] By analyzing the risk factors faced by nurses themselves: (1) Physical risk factors, including needle stick injuries, noise, occupational, etc.; (2) drug injury factors, including cytotoxic drugs or antineoplastic agents, chemical disinfection and sterilization etc.; (3), work accidents infections, including access to the patient’s blood, urine, body fluids, etc., causing all kinds of hepatitis viruses, HIV transmission; (4) unexpected violence, nurses and smaller because of work, if the patient are not in place or cause to explain the contradictions are likely to experience violence; (5) Psychological risk factors, nurses no fixed patterns of life, often at night, their emotional stress, will affect their physical and mental health; (6) nurse-patient relationship tension Many times it is because nurses are too busy to explain to the patient’s problem is not in place caused; (7) weak awareness of the law, nurses are at work more to consider how the patient’s health as soon as possible to resolve the fundamental issues to the neglect of potential legal problems . Propose appropriate protective measures include: (1) the establishment of safety awareness, good self-protection; (2) protection and regulation of nurses in mental health; (3) to strengthen nurse-patient information sharing, enhanced care records management; (4) on a regular basis in nursing risk education and popularization of education, and consciously implement the regulations and operating procedures, words and deeds with legal norms. [Keywords:] care; risk; protective measures Nurses to maintain and promote health care patients in the course of the activity itself, there are many risk factors. A nurse’s own risk factors faced by 1.1 Physical factors (1) Needlestick Injury: needles nurses close ‘working partner’, but also the most sharps injuries of nurses. Many nurses, safety awareness and self-protecti