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uries from sharp objects between health professionals: ohranjanje in krepitev zdravja | maintaining and promoting health
How to deal with it?
Helena Olenik, Damir Hećimović
University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Health Sciences, Zdravstvena pot 5, 1000
Ljubljana, Slovenia
Introduction: An incident is the injury with a sharp and infected object or it can
be the spillage of blood or body fluids on damaged skin or mucous membranes.
Accident or an incident it can also meen a spillage of blood over a large area of
normal skin or mucous membranes.
Methods A descriptive method wasused, namely literature review. The collec-
tion of available literature and resources was from 2010 through March 2020 in
databases: CINAHL, Medline and COBIB.SI.
Results: Employed in health care have to deal with patients with different dis-
eases. Special attention should be paid to blood borne diseases, a special em-
phasis is placed on the hepatitis B and C and HIV. When it comes to unwanted
needle stick or incident, it is necessary to proceed according to the protocol. In
this case, it is necessary to take blood for testing both health professional per-
son and the patient. The safe and proper handling of sharp objects in the kay
to prevent and reduce the possibility of injury from a sharp object and thus the
possibility of the infection. In the paper we are using 24 articles who covered
disposal to support the topic of how to deal with a sharp object.
Discussion and conclusion: Incidents are the health workers everyday prob-
lems. Health care workers are daily exposed to a puncture of the infected
sharp object, and consequently are exposed to diseases, such as hepatitis B
and C and HIV. Every healthcare professional can do the most for their own
protection. Annual involvement in education on the management of contam-
inated sharp objects, expertise and concentrating on the job can help reduce
the number of incidents.
Key words: incident, healthcare professionals, infection, safety, workplace
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How to deal with it?
Helena Olenik, Damir Hećimović
University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Health Sciences, Zdravstvena pot 5, 1000
Ljubljana, Slovenia
Introduction: An incident is the injury with a sharp and infected object or it can
be the spillage of blood or body fluids on damaged skin or mucous membranes.
Accident or an incident it can also meen a spillage of blood over a large area of
normal skin or mucous membranes.
Methods A descriptive method wasused, namely literature review. The collec-
tion of available literature and resources was from 2010 through March 2020 in
databases: CINAHL, Medline and COBIB.SI.
Results: Employed in health care have to deal with patients with different dis-
eases. Special attention should be paid to blood borne diseases, a special em-
phasis is placed on the hepatitis B and C and HIV. When it comes to unwanted
needle stick or incident, it is necessary to proceed according to the protocol. In
this case, it is necessary to take blood for testing both health professional per-
son and the patient. The safe and proper handling of sharp objects in the kay
to prevent and reduce the possibility of injury from a sharp object and thus the
possibility of the infection. In the paper we are using 24 articles who covered
disposal to support the topic of how to deal with a sharp object.
Discussion and conclusion: Incidents are the health workers everyday prob-
lems. Health care workers are daily exposed to a puncture of the infected
sharp object, and consequently are exposed to diseases, such as hepatitis B
and C and HIV. Every healthcare professional can do the most for their own
protection. Annual involvement in education on the management of contam-
inated sharp objects, expertise and concentrating on the job can help reduce
the number of incidents.
Key words: incident, healthcare professionals, infection, safety, workplace
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