Nurses occupational hazards of self-protection.doc

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 9 Nurses occupational hazards of self-protection Author: Zhang Rong, Hong-Wei Cai, Zheng Yan-ling Keywords: self-protection; nursing; occupational hazards With the development of modern medicine and medical technology continues to improve, new chemical substances and high-tech technology in clinical widely used to carry out a variety of general surgery, HIV (AIDS) and hepatitis B cases increased, to the hospital’s clinical work challenges. Nurses due to the nature of their work day to deal with the patient, perform a variety of care and operations, deal with contaminated items, by bacteria, viruses, many opportunities for infection. Therefore, to enhance self-protection, emphasis on infection management is the key to the prevention of occupational injury. 1 on the ward of air pollution in self-protection Hospitals are places where air pollution is relatively serious, viruses and bacteria like an invisible killer, threatening the health of nursing staff. The damage effects of chemical contaminants in the decision on its characteristics, chemical structure, concentration and human exposure time, and the atmosphere of harmful substances often have a variety of mixed pollution, the most common is the sum of the phenomenon of the toxicity of harmful substances, low - the concentration of long-term effects of pollutants on the human body will have a chronic long-term effect, this effect is often difficult to be noticed, it is difficult to identify [1]. Ward self-protection, in addition to maintaining adequate ventilation, regular air disinfection, there are important point is that you have to wear face masks, masks, use and preservation, if not correct, not only serve to protect the role of viruses, bacteria, etc. will be with the breath movement into the body. The use of masks should be noted: ① wear a mask when the mask away from the upper edge of 1 cm at the lower eyelids, face masks to encase the lower ed