Nursing staff of the occupational hazards and protective measures.doc

Nursing staff of the occupational hazards and protective measures [Abstract] the special nature of the work of nurses, often exposed to various occupational hazards, the impact of improving the quality of medical care, but also seriously damage the quality of life of nursing This paper reviews the nursing staff through a variety of occupational hazards factors to promote nurses to enhance self-protection awareness, try to avoid the damage of harmful factors on their own, maintaining physical and mental health, and effective to achieve self-protection. [Keywords] nursing occupational hazard prevention measures Nursing staff of the hospital, the patient high degree of concentration, coupled with a variety of diagnosis, treatment technology, the formation of a hospital-specific biological, physical, chemical environment, and because the high intensity of care, so that nurses often psychology and ergonomics in the high stress state. how to effectively avoid the occupational hazards of nursing staff, nursing staff take the initiative to strengthen protection awareness, is imminent. are common occupational hazards on the nursing staff as well as protective measures are summarized as follows: 1 risk factor 1.1 Biological factors A large number of findings that nurses work in a professional career in higher injury rates and rate of occupational exposure, resulting in a higher infection rate and carrier rate, according to WHO statistics [1], nurses, hospital laboratory staff and cleaners is a high risk of traumatic exposure, the annual rate of 1% -2%, trauma, post-traumatic infection rate of 0.3% -3% in the spring 2003 issue of the SARS outbreak, the first-line health care workers the highest infection rate of 20% or more. In many biological factors, especially the nurses because of sharps injuries due to needle stick injuries and infection by blood-borne diseases as the most important [2] due to the damage caused by acupuncture can be spread more than